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

Yngfalk, C. Bio-politicizing consumption: neo-liberal consumerism and disembodiment in the food marketplace (2016) Consumption Markets and Culture, 19 (3), pp. 275-295. DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1102725 Abstract How consumerism proliferates in society is central to consumer culture studies, yet little research has examined the power of consumerist discourses in shaping consumption at the intersection of marketing with State …

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Francesca Moore, ‘A band of public-spirited women’: Middle-class female philanthropy and citizenship in Bolton, Lancashire before 1918 (2016) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41 (2), pp. 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12114 Abstract In the 19th and early 20th centuries, despite the cultural ideal of private and public as separate spheres and a lack of formal voting …

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Clinton, M.E., Springer, R.A. Foucault’s legacy for nursing: Are we beneficiaries or intestate heirs? (2016) Nursing Philosophy, 17 (2), pp. 119-131. DOI: 10.1111/nup.12113 Abstract Drawing upon selected literature from the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Canada we examine how Foucault’s concepts of ‘episteme’, ‘rupture’ ‘parrhesia’ ‘care of the self’, and ‘problemitization’ have been applied to particular …

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Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon. Edited and transcribed by Stuart Elden.Theory, Culture & Society May 10, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0263276416640070 Abstract This article is a transcript of a conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon in San Francisco in October 1983. It has never previously been published and is …

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William Davies: A Bibliographic Review of Neoliberalism, Theory Culture and Society, 7 March 2014 The term ‘neoliberalism’ has become increasingly familiar over recent years. The term was relatively unheard-of until the 1990s, but was then adopted principally by the critics of a perceived free market orthodoxy, which was spreading around the world under the auspices …

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Siisiäinen, L. Foucault and Gay Counter-Conduct (2016) Global Society, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2016.1144567 Abstract In his late work, Michel Foucault elaborates on the notion of resistance in a meticulous fashion, introducing the more precise concept of counter-conduct. This article contributes to this topical discussion within a specific framework: the gay mode of …

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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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