Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Holly Link, Sarah Gallo, Stanton E. F. Wortham, The Production of Schoolchildren as Enlightenment Subjects, American Educational Research Journal First Published May 19, 2017 Abstract This article investigates children’s elementary school experiences, exploring how they become autonomous, rational individuals—the type of person envisioned in the European Enlightenment and generally imagined as the outcome of Western …

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Aquino, J.G. Two premises and one general hypothesis for the analysis of the educational present (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49 (7), pp. 672-680. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1204733 Abstract Contemporary research in the field of Foucauldian studies on education have pointed to a growing imbrication between educational practises and neoliberal ideas. The problematization of such scenario would …

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Jiménez, M.A., Valle, A.M. Pedagogy and the care of the self: A reading from Foucault (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49 (7), pp. 702-709. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1204736 Abstract This text reflects about the need to consider an additional institutional alternative that matters, not only to the ones that advocate for pedagogy, but also to all of …

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Romito, M. Governing through guidance: an analysis of educational guidance practices in an Italian lower secondary school (2017) Discourse, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2017.1314251 Abstract Current social policy discourse defines educational and career guidance as a key tool to enhance individual self-realisation while pursuing collective social objectives (economic growth, reduction of drop-out rate, …

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Biancamaria Fontana, Would you mind imprisoning my wife? Times Literary Supplement, May 17, 2017 Review of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, Disorderly Families. Infamous letters from the Bastille archives. Edited by Nancy Luxon. Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton 344pp. University of Minnesota Press. $35. Imagine living in a country where your domestic conflicts could be solved …

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Peter Triantafillou, Neoliberal power and public management reforms, Manchester University Press, April 2017 DESCRIPTION This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a critical …

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Journée d’étude Michel Foucault – IEA Collegium de Lyon/ENS de Lyon – 6 June 2017 PDF program « ‘Le temps de l’histoire’ : Michel Foucault à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse », coorganisée par l’IEA Collegium de Lyon, le programme EURIAS et le laboratoire Triangle UMR 5206 – ENS de Lyon Elle …

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Orazio IRRERA,« De l’archéologie du savoir aux archives coloniales. L’archive comme dispositif colonial de violence épistémique.” Práticas da História, Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, n. 3, 2016, pp. 51-70 Résumé: Dans cet article il sera question de problématiser l’archive comme lieu d’intersection de matrices épistémologiques et de matrices juridico-politiques, et de …

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