Foucault News

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

Colin Gordon: A Comment on Fassin and Chatterjee, 12/13 blog, 5 May 2016 Among the valuable Foucault 13/13 series of video and written discussions of Michel Foucault’s Collège de France lectures, recently coordinated at Columbia University by Bernard E Harcourt and Jesus R Velasco, I was struck by the following comments, linked to the session …

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O’Neill, A.-M. Assessment-based curriculum: globalising and enterprising culture, human capital and teacher–technicians in Aotearoa New Zealand (2016) Journal of Education Policy, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2016.1150520 Abstract This policy chronology traces the institution of globalised school curriculum and assessment discourses, as a vernacular and specific form of public rationalisation and educational governmentality in …

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Bernaz, Oleg, Identité nationale et politique de la langue, Peter Lang, 2016 Une analyse foucaldienne du cas moldave Series: Critique sociale et pensée juridique – Volume 4 ISBN 978-2-87574-343-5 br. (Softcover) PDF Table des matières Intro et préface Table des matières Remerciements 13 Préface. Y a-t-il une « épistémè géolinguistique » ? 15 Marc Maesschalck …

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Originally posted on Memento Literati:
Do you ever feel like you’re being watched when you’re studying in the library?   This is a question I’ve been asking a number of students lately as part of my research study- which has resulted in some interesting points for consideration.  It’s a question that often needs a bit…

Young, H. Asking the ‘right’ questions: the constitution of school governing bodies as apolitical (2016) Journal of Education Policy, 31 (2), pp. 161-177. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1062145 Abstract School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and responsibilities with regard to the education of pupils. This paper draws on an analysis of policy and on qualitative research …

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Ojalammi, S., Blomley, N. Dancing with wolves: Making legal territory in a more-than-human world (2015) Geoforum, 62, pp. 51-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.022 Abstract As human codings of animals are often simultaneously legal and spatial, it may be useful to bring together the animal geographies literature and scholarship on legal geography. Through a case study set in …

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Nicholas Heron, What Is a Minister? Toward a Theory of the Instrumental Cause, CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2015, pp. 135–166 Full text on Academia.edu First few lines The problem of the relationship between politics and religion in modernity, Michel Foucault once suggested, is not the problem of the relationship between …

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VALDEZ, I. Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban (2016) American Political Science Review, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055415000647 Abstract This article proposes a conception of freedom understood as practices. Based on Michel Foucault’s work on the ethics of the self, I develop a conception of …

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