Holly Randell-Moon, Ryan Tippet (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 …
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 …
Foucault in Ireland 24 March 2017 Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland Attendance is free but you are required to register A symposium focused on the engagement of the ideas of Michel Foucault by scholars working on the island of Ireland. It begins with a roundtable on the recent works on Foucault by …
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, …
Verena Lenneis and Gertrud Pfister, Health messages, middle-aged women and the pleasure of play (2016) Annals of Leisure Research, 20(1), 55–74. https://doi.org/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 increased health risks …
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 …
Nancy Partner, Foucault’s iconic afterlife: The posthumous reach of words and things, History & Theory Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2016, Pages 35–53 https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.10827 ABSTRACT The lasting influence of Michel Foucault’s work is both instantly recognizable in that his very name can be invoked as a noun or adjective (“Foucauldian”), as a critical stance or …
Fabienne de Bilbao, Paola Bonavitacola, The abuses of a certain knowledge, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, First published: 5 April 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-8315.12493 Abstract In the psychiatric institution, the sex act is a matter of controversy, all the more so when elderly patients with dementia are concerned. Yet, a question imposes itself: thinking beyond the biomedical …
Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives By Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault Edited by Nancy Luxon Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton University of Minnesota Press | 344 pages | January 2017 ISBN 978-0-8166-9534-8 | jacketed cloth | $35.00 First published in French in 1982, this first English translation of Disorderly Families contains ninety-four letters …
