Foucault News

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

Ben Mylius, “Towards the Unthinkable: Earth Jurisprudence and an Ecocentric Episteme” (2013) 38 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 102-122 Full text available Abstract This paper argues that Earth Jurisprudence aims to bring about a change in episteme, using the law, from our current anthropocentric episteme to a new ecocentric one: a process that requires a …

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Michel Foucault, France Culture radio, Émissions • Hors-champs • Michel Foucault, 5 émissions, mars 2016 A l’occasion de la sortie dans la Pléiade de l’œuvre de Foucault, toute une semaine avec Michel Foucault, il s’agira de penser avec Michel Foucault, grâce à Michel Foucault et d’envisager Michel Foucault demain. Comprendre l’ampleur à la fois intellectuelle, …

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Hannigan, David, (1998) From aboriginality to governmentality: the meaning of section 35(1) and the power of legal discourse, Master of Laws thesis, University of British Columbia Full text available This thesis examines recent doctrinal developments regarding the aboriginal and treaty rights which are recognised and affirmed in s.35(l) of the Constitution Act, 1982. Specifically, it …

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Vaahtera, E. Biopolitics and the repressive hypothesis of the body: the case of swimming training in Finland (2016) Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 18 (2), pp. 142-153. DOI: 10.1080/15017419.2015.1063538 Abstract Iris Marion Young, a feminist theoretician, argued that patriarchal society inhibits women to cultivate capable bodies. In contrast, Foucauldian arguments have stressed that to view …

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William Davies, From Jurisdiction to Translation: Elite Power Under Advanced Neoliberalism, Pre-print of article to appear in Theory Culture & Society Abstract The financial crisis, and associated scandals, created a sense of a juridical deficit with regard to the financial sector. Forms of independent judgement within the sector appeared compromised, while judgement over the sector …

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Bruce Moghtader, Foucault and Educational Ethics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Publisher’s site About this book In his works on ethics, Foucault turned towards an examination of one’s relationship with oneself and others. This differs from the modern approaches that explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria …

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EDGES BLOG: CSC Interview with Daniel Zamora. Cultural Studies blog, George Mason University, 12 March 2016 The Cultural Studies Program’s colloquium (CSC) series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Dave Zeglen interviewed Daniel Zamora, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago. See below for the transcript. Let us begin with your …

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Julio Groppa Aquino, Fabiana Augusta Alves Jardim, Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research, Sisyphus – Journal of Education, 2015, vol 3, no.3, 10-37. https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.8900 Abstract The article initiates by presenting the context and effects of the uses of biopolitics, a notion that Foucault frames during a period of theoretical transition, when he operates …

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Rohan Deb Roy and David Arnold, Of Prisons, Tropics and Bicycles: A Conversation with David Arnold, Asian Medicine 6 (2010–11) 149–163 DOI:10.1163/157342110X606914 Full text on academia.edu Abstract David Arnold who retired this year as the Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick remains one of the most prolific historians of colonial …

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