Foucault News

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

New issue of materiali foucaultiani (II:4), consecrated mostly (but not exclusively) to “Butler/Foucault: Undoing Norms, Reworking Subjects”. Table of contents A che prezzo si diviene soggetti?  (pp. 3-7) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli FULL ARTICLE Butler/Foucault: Undoing Norms, Reworking Subjects Introduzione  (pp. 9-16)   Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli …

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Whitney, K. Domesticating nature?: Surveillance and conservation of migratory shorebirds in the “Atlantic Flyway” (2014) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 45 (1), pp. 78-87. Abstract Using a recent environmental controversy on the U.S. east coast over the conservation of red knots …

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Lyness, C. Governing the suicide bomber: reading terrorism studies as governmentality (2014) Critical Studies on Terrorism, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract This article engages with the suicide bomber as he or she appears in the terrorism studies literature. In contrast to sensationalised narratives of the suicide bomber as pathological or fanatical, terrorism studies has increasingly …

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Walker, S.P. Accounting and rural rehabilitation in New Deal America (2014) Accounting, Organizations and Society, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract The enabling potential of accounting is explored through an investigation of practices attending the rural rehabilitation program in 1930s USA. The paper examines the attempts of a progressive government agency to encourage the adoption of …

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Niesche, R., Keddie, A. Issues of Indigenous representation: White advocacy and the complexities of ethical leadership (2014) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27 (4), pp. 509-526. Abstract This paper explores the tensions and complexities for two principals as they work towards equity and improved social and educational outcomes for their Indigenous students. Drawing …

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Ahonen, P., Tienari, J., Meriläinen, S., Pullen, A. Hidden contexts and invisible power relations: A Foucauldian reading of diversity research (2014) Human Relations, 67 (3), pp. 263-286. Abstract This article joins recent critical diversity studies that point to an urgent need to revitalize the field, but goes further by showing the inherent contextual issues and …

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Millei, Z., Cliff, K. The preschool bathroom: Making ‘problem bodies’ and the limit of the disciplinary regime over children (2014) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 35 (2), pp. 244-262. Abstract In this paper we study the effects of power in a bathroom, which is a rarely analysed space in preschools, using empirical examples from …

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Mooney, J. A tale of two regicides (2014) European Journal of Criminology, 11 (2), pp. 228-250. Abstract This paper examines two attempted 18th century cases of regicide: those of Robert François Damiens against Louis XV and Margaret Nicholson against George III, which have similar circumstances yet, on the face of it, strikingly different outcomes. For …

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Pepper, S. Subscribing to Governmental Rationality: HBO and the AIDS Epidemic (2014) Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract Between 1987 and 2013, HBO produced or distributed over twenty HIV/AIDS programs. These films trace a cultural shift from an early focus on AIDS as a public health issue to be dealt with …

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