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

Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil, Éditions Points 05 Décembre 2013, 356 pages. Frédéric Gros, Foucault et « la société punitive », Pouvoirs, 2010/4 n° 135, pp.5-14 Résumé Foucault prononce en 1973 un cours au Collège de France intitulé « La société punitive ». Ce cours, …

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PDF flyer Premières lectures, premières réactions, et pistes de recherches Journée d’étude autour de Michel Foucault, La Société punitive (1972-1973) Mardi 17 décembre 2013 de 10h à 13h, salles du conseil A & B de 14h30 à 18h, salle Jean-Pierre Vernant, 8e étage, EHESS 190 av de France 75013 Paris Videos of sessions. Programme 10h00 …

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Amy Allen, The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2007. This has just been newly published in paperback. Publisher’s page Draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Seyla Benhabib, and others    The book is both an analysis of power and an …

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Collectif f71 Appel à participation Le samedi 14 décembre à 11h, réunion d’information à propos des séances de travail avec des amateurs proposées par le collectif F71 à l’occasion des représentations de Notre corps utopique au Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris 11e) Information et réservation, Nicolas Transy, 01 43 57 57 17, ntransy@theatre-bastille.com D’autres séances …

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Caroline Bath, Conceptualising listening to young children as an ethic of care in early childhood education and care (2013) Children and Society, 27 (5), pp. 361-371. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00407.x Abstract This paper focuses on recent discourses and practices of listening to young children, in order to highlight listening as an ethical practice in early childhood education and …

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Nancy Luxon, Crisis of Authority. Politics, Trust, and Truth-Telling in Freud and Foucault, Cambridge University Press, 2013 Description Contemporary social and political theory has reached an impasse about a problem that had once seemed straightforward: how can individuals make ethical judgments about power and politics? Crisis of Authority analyzes the practices that bind authority, trust, …

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Shira Wolosky, Foucault at School: Discipline, Education and Agency in Harry Potter, Children’s Literature in Education, 45, 285–297 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-013-9215-6 Abstract The formative power of children’s literature is both great and suspicious. As a resource of socialization, the construction and experience of children’s literature can be seen as modes of disciplinary coercion such as Michel …

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