Max Weber and Michel Foucault: possible convergences International Conference Universidade de São Paulo (USP) – São Paulo, Brazil 20th to 24th May 2013 Weber and Foucault 2013_Final Programme Pdf May, 20th, Monday 10h-12h a.m. Opening Session: Colin Gordon, “’Plato in Weimar: public philosophy in the last lectures of Weber and Foucault”. Coord.: Maria Helena Oliva …
Leffers, D., Ballamingie, P. Governmentality, environmental subjectivity, and urban intensification (2013) Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 18 (2), pp. 134-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.719016 Abstract This article delineates concepts of eco-modernisation and urban sustainability (including its associated discourses), elucidating Foucault’s notion of governmentality and examining select moments of contested urban governance in the neighbourhood …
Hoffmann Pii, K., Villadsen, K. Protect the patient from whom? When patients contest governmentality and seek more expert guidance (2013) Social Theory and Health, 11 (1), pp. 19-39. https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sth.2012.19 Abstract This article presents findings from an empirical study among patients and professionals involved in a preventive health program at a Danish hospital. It shows how …
Spinozan Genealogies of Political Community UNSW, Morven Brown 310, 9.30am July 25, 2013 An international workshop organised by the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales Supported by the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney Spinoza’s idea that ‘the right of the individual is co-extensive …
Ball, S.J., Olmedo, A. Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities (2013) Critical Studies in Education, 54 (1), pp. 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2013.740678 Abstract Resistance is normally thought of as a collective exercise of public political activity. In this article, Ball and Olmedo approach the question of resistance in a different way, through Foucault’s …
Clare O’Farrell, Foucault’s Thought, In Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Edited by Byron Kaldis. London: Sage, 2013, pp. 364-368. Publisher’s page First paragraph of entry Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian of ideas who was born in Poitiers in France in 1926 and died in Paris in 1984. Since his death …
Bernard Harcourt, Foucault, retour sur l’aveu. Entretien Audio broadcast France Culture Pdf of Transcript A la fin de sa vie, Michel Foucault est revenu sur la question de l’aveu dans la justice pénale près de vingt ans après la série de conférences à Rio sur “la vérité et les formes juridiques » et bien sûr après …
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Social Theory and Education Research Understanding Foucault, Habermas,Bourdieu and Derrida. Edited by Mark Murphy, London: Routledge, April 2013 September 2025 update: Link above is to the second edition published in 2022. Description Although education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists, a number of these have been of particular significance …
Jiménez-Anca, J.J. Beyond power: Unbridging Foucault and Weber (2013) European Journal of Social Theory, 16 (1), pp. 36-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431012444919 Abstract Today, very few would doubt that there are plenty of reasons to liken Weber’s and Foucault’s theories of power. Nevertheless, their respective works have divergent ethical and ontological preoccupations which should be reconsidered. This article …
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