W. Ben Mortenson, Andrew Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, The power(s) of observation: theoretical perspectives on surveillance technologies and older people (2013) Ageing and Society, 2015;35(3):512-530. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X13000846 Abstract There is a long history of surveillance of older adults in institutional settings and it is becoming an increasingly common feature of modern society. New surveillance technologies that include …
Keffrelyn D. Brown and Lisa S. Goldstein, Preservice elementary teachers’ understandings of competing notions of academic achievement coexisting in post-NCLB public schools (2013) Teachers College Record Volume 115 Number 1, 2013, p. 1-37 https://doi.org/10.1177/016146811311500104 Abstract Background/Context: Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, teaching in public school contexts has become more complex and …
The Social Theory Applied blog started out as a theory and educational research blog but as Mark Murphy, who runs the blog, explains it has recently broadened its focus [Link updated 22 August 2026 to archived blog on the Wayback Machine] Please note that the remit of the site is to become broader than its original …
1ère session : Autour de Michel Foucault, « La Société punitive (1972-1973) » Video recordings Links to videos of all sessions. Date de réalisation : 17 Janvier 2013 Durée du programme : 83 min Autour de Michel Foucault, « La Société punitive (1972-1973) » EHESS – Salles du conseil A et B et salle Jean-Pierre …
Yahya M. Madra, Fikret Adaman, Neoliberal Reason and Its Forms: De-Politicisation Through Economisation (2013) Antipode, 46: 691-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12065 Abstract This paper offers a historically contextualised intellectual history of the entangled development of three competing post-war economic approaches, viz the Austrian, Chicago and post-Walrasian schools, as three forms of neoliberalism. Taking our cue from Foucault’s reading …
Course offered by the Global Center for Advanced Studies located in Michigan, USA. They also have a facebook page Intro to Critical Theory: Frankfurt to Foucault INSTRUCTORS: Jason Adams and Creston Davis GUESTS: Dorothea Olkowski, Eleanor Kaufman, Azfar Hussain (tentative) DATES: Feb 2/3 and 9/10 2014 COST: $99 COURSE DESCRIPTION: According to Max Horkheimer, theory …
Deborah Cook, Adorno, Foucault and critique (2013) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 39 (10), pp. 965-981. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453713507016 Abstract Adorno and Foucault are among the 20th century’s most renowned social critics but little work has been done to compare their ideas about the activity of critique. ‘Adorno, Foucault and Critique’ attempts to fill this lacuna. It takes …
Adrian Guta, Stephanie A. Nixon, Michael G. Wilson, Resisting the seduction of “ethics creep”: Using Foucault to surface complexity and contradiction in research ethics review (2013) Social Science and Medicine, 98, pp. 301-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.019 Abstract In this paper we examine “ethics creep”, a concept developed by Haggerty (2004) to account for the increasing bureaucratization of …
Update 7 July 2026. The most recent update of this bibliography was the 29th May 2018. A non comprehensive record of more recent articles can be found by clicking the Education category on Foucault News. I have just finished (more or less) compiling a list of English language works on Foucault and education for my …
Brad Gobby, Principal self-government and subjectification: the exercise of principal autonomy in the Western Australian Independent Public Schools programme (2013) Critical Studies in Education, 54 (3), pp. 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2013.832338 Abstract The launch of the Independent Public Schools (IPS) programme in Western Australia (WA) in 2010 reflects the neoliberal policy discourse of decentralisation and school self-management …
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