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

Nildo Avelino, Foucault e a racionalidade (neo)liberal, (2016) Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política, 21, pp. 229-286. Avelino, N. Foucault and (neo)liberal rationality DOI: 10.1590/0103-335220162107 Full PDF available in Portuguese Resumo O artigo aborda o debate em torno da reflexão de Michel Foucault acerca do liberalismo e do neoliberalismo. Apresenta de maneira critica alguns trabalhos recentes, …

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Stuart Elden, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Polity, 2017 Michel Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the radical shift …

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Randell-Moon, Holly, Tippet, Ryan (Eds.) Security, Race, Biopower. Essays on Technology and Corporeality, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to …

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Jordi Collet-Sabé, ‘I do not like what I am becoming but…’: transforming the identity of head teachers in Catalonia, Journal of Education Policy, Volume 32, 2017 – Issue 2. Pages 141-158 https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2016.1253873 Abstract The aim of this article is to elucidate how a new system of school and teacher assessment in Catalonia is transforming the …

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Foucault Studies Number 22: January 2017: Foucault and Roman Antiquity: Foucault’s Rome Editor’s note: I have now returned to the journal, of which I was one of the co-founders, as part of an expanded editorial team. An interview with another of the three founding editors of the journal, Stuart Elden, also appears in this issue, …

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Lenneis, V., Pfister, G. Health messages, middle-aged women and the pleasure of play (2016) Annals of Leisure Research, pp. 1-20. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2016.1207091 Abstract Western societies glorify youth and consider middle age as the onset of deterioration. The prevalent discourses on middle-aged women focus primarily on negative developments in their lives such as …

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As part of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Religion Forum 2009-10 Lecture Series, Mark D. Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity at HDS, presented “Reading Foucault: Becoming Again What We Never Were” on April 12, 2010. This event was sponsored by the Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Religion at Harvard.

History and Theory: Special Issue: Words, Things, and Beyond: Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at 50 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: FOUCAULT’S LES MOTS ET LES CHOSES AT 50 (pages 3–6) PETER E. GORDON PHENOMENOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY IN FOUCAULT’S “INTRODUCTION TO BINSWANGER’S DREAM AND EXISTENCE“: A MIRROR IMAGE OF THE ORDER OF THINGS? (pages 7–22) BÉATRICE HAN-PILE …

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