Foucault News

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

Adam Davidson-Harden, What is social sciences and humanities research ‘Worth’? Neoliberalism and the framing of social sciences and humanities work in Canada (2013) Policy Futures in Education, 11 (4), pp. 375-386. https://doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2013.11.4.387 Abstract This article offers a critique of the discursive politics represented in attempts to frame social sciences and humanities work in the mould …

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Erzsébet Strausz, Being in Discourse with Foucault:The Practice of Life, Theory & Event, Volume 16, Issue 4, 2013 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/530497 Abstract This article performs an experimental reading of Foucault’s selected writings as a creative intervention into the operation of “discourse” and our formation in it both as academic “knowers” and subjects of contemporary government. Drawing inspiration …

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Roland Sintos Coloma, Ladlad and Parrhesiastic Pedagogy: Unfurling LGBT Politics and Education in the Global South (2013) Curriculum Inquiry, 43 (4), pp. 483-511. https://doi.org/10.1111/curi.12020 Abstract This article examines the political and educational activism of Ladlad, the first lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political party in the Philippines and the only existing LGBT political party …

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In Conversation: William Davies and Nicholas Gane on Neoliberalism and the Ethos of Competition In this interview for the TCS Website (18 December 2013), William Davies and Nicholas Gane discuss competition, monopoly, markets, neoliberalism and Foucault. NG: You have a forthcoming book in the TCS book series called The Limits of Neoliberalism. Could you tell …

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Joanna K Fadyl, David A Nicholls, and Kathryn M McPherson, Interrogating discourse: The application of Foucault’s methodological discussion to specific inquiry (2013) Health (United Kingdom), 17 (5), pp. 478-494. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459312464073 Abstract Discourse analysis following the work of Michel Foucault has become a valuable methodology in the critical analysis of a broad range of topics relating …

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power, Bloomsbury, 2013 publisher’s page About Foucault and Power Michel Foucault is one of the most preeminent theorists of power, yet the relationship between his militant activities and his analysis of power remains unclear. The book explores this relationship to explain the …

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Nicolas Thirion, Des rapports entre droit et vérité selon Foucault : une illustration des interactions entre les pratiques juridiques et leur environnement, Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques, 2013/1 (Volume 70), pp. 180-88 Premières lignes Les deux questions posées aux contributeurs de la présente livraison de la Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques sont d’une ampleur telle qu’il serait …

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Matthew Ball, Queer Criminology, Critique, and the “Art of Not Being Governed” (2013) Critical Criminology, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-013-9223-2 Abstract This article builds on previous work that argues that a useful path for a “queer/ed criminology” to follow is one that takes “queer” to denote a position. It suggests that one way of developing such an …

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Antoine Doré, L’exercice des biopolitiques Conditions matérielles et ontologiques de la gestion gouvernementale d’une population animale, Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances, 2013/4 (Vol. 7, n° 4), pp. 837-855 Full article À partir de ses recherches consacrées à l’histoire des formes de gouvernement dans les sociétés occidentales, Michel Foucault décrit une forme de pouvoir spécifique de la …

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