Foucault News

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

Biopolitics, Bioscience and Governmentality November 19, 2015 Jornadabios.blogspot.com This colloquium aims to discuss current perspectives on biopolitics and its intersections with bioscience, pharmacology, and medicine; and to propose readings that link this knowledge with the individual and governmentality, especially in the Latin American and Chilean context. The category of “biopolitics” was reintroduced by Michel Foucault in 1974, …

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Naissance de la biopolitique : contextes, lectures, réceptions, disputes Colloque de Cerisy Podcast sur le site La forge numérique A voir aussi France Culture plus le webcampus Christian Laval, professeur de sociologie laboratoire sophiapol Date : 16/06/2015 Lieu : CCIC Cerisy Durée : 53:17 Cette conférence a été donnée dans le cadre du colloque intitulé …

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Manan, S.A., David, M.K., Dumanig, F.P. Language management: a snapshot of governmentality within the private schools in Quetta, Pakistan (2014) Language Policy, 24 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10993-014-9343-x Abstract Pakistan is a multilingual and multiethnic country; however, this diversity stands unrecognized in the formal language-in-education policies. Estimates suggest that about 90 % of children …

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Lopes, E., Carter, D., Street, J. Power relations and contrasting conceptions of evidence in patient-involvement processes used to inform health funding decisions in Australia (2015) Social Science and Medicine, 135, pp. 84-91. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.04.021 Abstract We collected and analysed views of key stakeholders on the processes used to involve patient organisations in health care funding …

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Hanna, P. Reconceptualizing subjectivity in critical social psychology: Turning to Foucault (2013) Theory and Psychology, 23 (5), pp. 657-674. DOI: 10.1177/0959354313493152 Abstract This article focuses on a reading of Foucault which draws on “technologies of the self,” as opposed to “technologies of subjectivity,” and examines the relevance of this work for critical psychology. The article …

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Voyce, M. From Ethics to Aesthetics: A Reconsideration of Buddhist Monastic Rules in the Light of Michel Foucault’s Work on Ethics (2015) Contemporary Buddhism, 31 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14639947.2015.1020735 Abstract This article considers the recent debate over the nature of Buddhist ethics largely conducted by scholars who have argued in different ways that …

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Julian Vigo, Biopower and Security, Counterpunch, May 05, 2015 Full text online In The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge (L’histoire de la sexualité, La volonté de savoir), Michel Foucault defines biopower as the practices engaged by the modern state to effect an “an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations …

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Gourlay, L. Open education as a ‘heterotopia of desire’ (2015) Learning, Media and Technology, 18 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2015.1029941 Abstract The movement towards ‘openness’ in education has tended to position itself as inherently democratising, radical, egalitarian and critical of powerful gatekeepers to learning. While ‘openness’ is often positioned as a critique, I will …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This has been the period between submitting the Foucault’s Last Decade manuscript and waiting for reader reports. I’ve largely been doing other things – talks on terrain and urban territory; editing a Lefebvre translation and writing its introduction; writing a response to a review forum on The Birth of Territory;…