Foucault News

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

Terri Bourke, Mary Ryan, Margaret Lloyd, The discursive positioning of graduating teachers in accreditation of teacher education programs, Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 53, January 2016, pp. 1–9 Abstract This paper uses discourse analysis techniques associated with Foucauldian archaeology to examine a teacher education accreditation document from Australia to reveal how graduating teachers are constructed …

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Children’s Spatialities: Embodiment, Emotion and Agency Editors: Seymour, Julie, Hackett, Abigail, Procter, Lisa (Eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 This book as the foreword states ‘takes up Foucault’s challenge to “examine the critical power of space and place in being and becoming of children’s lives’. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, architecture and …

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History and Obstinacy By Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt Edited by Devin Fore With Cyrus Shahan, Martin Brady, Helen Hughes and Joel Golb Translated by Richard Langston The MIT Press, 2016 Devin Fore’s introduction which refers to Foucault can be found on his university website Overview If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of …

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Mark de Valk (Ed.) Screening the Tortured Body. The Cinema as Scaffold, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Inspired by Michel Foucault’s examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the ‘political technology of the body’ and ‘the spectacle of the scaffold’ as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily …

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Rik Peeters & Marc Schuilenburg, The birth of mindpolitics: understanding nudging in public health policy, Social Theory & Health, 09 November 2016 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-016-0024-z Abstract This article addresses the question: ‘In what ways have nudging and other behavioural techniques entered the realm of policymaking for public health and what does that mean for the way contemporary …

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Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
[Image: Mike Winkelmann] In my dissertation summary, I linked the works of Evan Thompson, Pierre Hadot, Peter Sloterdijk, and Michel Foucault in terms of each philosopher’s emphasis on what we could call skills?of perception and action, each suggesting a view of philosophy as practice. In Pierre Hadot’s work?What is Ancient…

Aquino, J.G. Two premises and one general hypothesis for the analysis of the educational present (2016) Educational Philosophy and Theory, pp. 1-9. Article in Press. 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 …

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Frank Pignatelli , “Ethical Leadership Development as Care of the Self: A Foucauldian Perspective,” Schools 12, no. 2 (Fall 2015): 198-213. DOI: 10.1086/683214 This essay addresses the care of the self as an important aspect in the development of educational leaders. It draws upon Michel Foucault’s analysis of power and its relationship to his understanding …

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Angharad E. Beckett, Paul Bagguley & Tom Campbell, Foucault, social movements and heterotopic horizons: rupturing the order of things, Social Movement Studies, Pages 1-13 | Received 21 Jul 2015, Accepted 15 Jul 2016, Published online: 02 Nov 2016 doi: 10.1080/14742837.2016.1252666 In this article, we explore and develop the utility for social movement studies of Michel …

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