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

Biopolitical Studies Research Network Prof. Thomas Lemke Tuesday 11 March – Tuesday 18 March Never Stand Still Faculty of Arts Social Sciences School of Humanities Languages Thomas Lemke is Professor of Sociology with focus on Biotechnologies, Nature and Society at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Goethe- University Frankfurt/Main in Germany. Among his recent …

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Intolérable Textes réunis par le Groupe d’Information sur les prisons, présentés par Philippe Artières Chronologie et postface de Philippe Artières Collection Verticales, Gallimard Parution : 19-04-2013 Further info Ce volume contient En février 1971, des intellectuels dont Michel Foucault, Daniel Defert, Jean-Marie Domenach, Pierre Vidal-Naquet et Gilles Deleuze fondent le Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons …

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Re-Making Normal: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times Call for Contributions Deborah Brock, editor dbrock@yorku.ca PDF Re-Making Normal: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times is a ‘sequel’ to my sole edited (Nelson 2003) publication, Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada.  However, it differs from the 2003 edition in a number of respects, most notably, it …

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Exclusion, discipline, terreur : à partir de Michel Foucault Colloque international 11 et 12 avril 2014, Strasbourg vendredi 11 avril : amphithéâtre du Collège doctoral européen, 42 bd de la Victoire PDF 9h : accueil des participants, introduction 9h30-10h30 : Alain Brossat, Université Paris-8, “Le ” geste obscur” – partage et/ou persécution” 10h30-11h30 : Jacob …

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Dorrestijn, S., Verbeek, P.-P. Technology, wellbeing, and freedom: The legacy of utopian design (2013) International Journal of Design, 7 (3), pp. 45-56. Further info Abstract This paper is about the application of user-influencing design for improving wellbeing, focusing on the ethical issue of finding the right balance between determination and freedom. Two contemporary approaches for …

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Olson, M., Fejes, A., Dahlstedt, M. & Nicoll, K. (2014) Citizenship discourses: Production and curriculum. British Journal of Sociology of Education. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2014.883917 Abstract This paper explores citizenship discourses empirically through upper secondary school student’s understandings, as these emerge in and through their everyday experiences. Drawing on a post-structuralist theorisation inspired by the work of …

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