Foucault News

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

McMahon, J., Barker-Ruchti, N. The media’s role in transmitting a cultural ideology and the effect on the general public (2016) Qualitiative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 8 (2), pp. 131-146. DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2015.1121912 Abstract Previous research investigating Australian swimming culture revealed a deeply entrenched ‘slim to win’ ideology, a notion that is centred on the …

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Des jardins autres, L’Harmattan , Sous la direction de Alexandre Néné et Sarah Carmo Archives Karéline ENVIRONNEMENT, NATURE, ÉCOLOGIE PHILOSOPHIEURBANISME, AMÉNAGEMENT, SOCIOLOGIE URBAINE ISBN : 978-2-35748-111-4 • mai 2015 • 324 pages L’extension des villes, la dissolution de leur espace et le phénomène de périurbanisation font du jardin une composante du paysage urbain de plus …

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Elise Hunkin, Deploying Foucauldian genealogy: Critiquing ‘quality’ reform in early childhood policy in Australia, Power and Education March 1, 2016 8: 35-53 doi: 10.1177/1757743815624114 Abstract The last two decades have seen the emergence of a global education paradigm that has reimagined education through the lens of neo-liberal ideology. Education policy agendas and discourses in current …

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Ole B. Jensen, New ‘Foucauldian Boomerangs’: Drones and Urban Surveillance, Surveillance and Society, Vol 14, No 1 (2016) Full PDF Abstract This paper uses the metaphor of ‘boomerangs’ articulated by Michel Foucault to discuss the potential for drones to become the ‘next layer’ of urban surveillance in our cities. Like earlier Western technologies and techniques …

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Katherine Bischoping, Selom Chapman-Nyaho, Rebecca Raby, Linking Visuality to Justice through International Cover Designs for Discipline and Punish, Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Visualizing Justice (IJR) Volume 5: Winter 2016, pp. 180-214 Abstract: Discipline and Punish revolves around the demise of a brief impulse to develop a juridical subject. We employ cover designs of …

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A review of Projective Ecologies, edited by Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister. 2014. Second edition 2020. ISBN: 1940291127. ACTAR, Harvard Graduate School of Design. 314 pages. Review by Anne Trumble Several months ago, I reviewed Landscape Imagination, a collection of essays by James Corner, a professor at University of Pennsylvania and the landscape architect who designed New …

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Helena Ostrowicka, On the Reception of Foucauldian Ideas in Pedagogical Research, European Educational Research Journal, September 2011 vol. 10 no. 3 433-444 https://doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2011.10.3.433 Abstract The article is devoted to the presentation of the reception of Foucauldian ideas in Polish pedagogical research over the past twenty years. This movement of thought is described as an oscillation …

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Deirdre McGowan, (2015) The Normalising Power of Marriage Law: An Irish Genealogy, 1945 – 2010. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Abstract Marriage law is often conceptualised as an instrument of power that illegitimately imposes the will of the State on its citizens. Paradoxically, marriage law is also offered as a route to liberation. …

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Deirdre McGowan, “Governed by marriage law: An Irish genealogy” (2016) vol 25, Issue 3, Social and Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663915614110 Abstract: Marriage law links the private and the political, connecting the aspirations of individuals to the regulatory ambitions of the state. Marriage has significant social and cultural importance, but the assumptions of stability and care it …

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