Foucault News

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

Real-Life Panopticons: Deserted Dystopian Prisons in Cuba, From Web Urbanist, Digital Magazine on Urban Architecture, Art, Design, Travel, & Technology Imagine life inside a ring of cells around a central watchtower, where you can never be sure whether you are being observed. This surreal setup became an extreme reality under dictator Gerardo Machado on the …

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Andreas Fejes and Katherine Nicoll (editors) Foucault and a Politics of Confession in Education, Routledge, forthcoming 2015 Publisher’s page PDF flyer Description In liberal, democratic and capitalist societies today, we are increasingly invited to disclose our innermost thoughts to others. We are asked to turn our gaze inwards, scrutinizing ourselves, our behaviours and beliefs, while …

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Mills, C. Reproductive autonomy as self-making: Procreative liberty and the practice of ethical subjectivity (2013) Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom), 38 (6), pp. 639-656. Abstract In this article, I consider recent debates on the notion of procreative liberty, to argue that reproductive freedom can be understood as a form of positive freedom-that is, …

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Larsson, H., Quennerstedt, M., Öhman, M. Heterotopias in physical education: towards a queer pedagogy? (2014) Gender and Education, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract This article sets out to outline how prevailing gender structures can be challenged in physical education (PE) by exploring queer potentials in an event that took place during a dancing lesson in …

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Bruce P Braun, A new urban dispositif? governing life in an age of climate change (2014) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32 (1), pp. 49-64. https://doi.org/10.1068/d4313 Abstract In an interview in 1977 Michel Foucault proposed the term dispositif for a heterogeneous set of discourses, practices, architectural forms, regulations, laws, and knowledges connected together …

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McKay, J. Young people’s voices: disciplining young people’s participation in decision-making in special educational needs (2014) Journal of Education Policy, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract In recent years, education and family policy in the UK has sought to incorporate the views of children and young people through an active participation agenda, in the fulfilment of …

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Muers, R. The ethics of stats: Some contemporary questions about telling the truth (2014) Journal of Religious Ethics, 42 (1), pp. 1-21. Abstract This essay argues for the importance and interest, within and beyond theological ethics, of the ethical questions faced by professionals who are called on to be producers of statistics (herein “stats”) for …

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Cobb, S., Farrants, J. Male prisoners’ constructions of help-seeking (2014) Journal of Forensic Practice, 16 (1), pp. 46-57. Abstract Purpose: Help-seeking behaviours are fundamental to mental health and well-being. This study is concerned with how male prisoners talk about help-seeking in order that treatment programmes can be developed that better address their needs. The purpose …

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