Foucault News

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

Call for Papers for Special Issue “Colors in Econarratives about the Human and More-than-Human World“, Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies Guest Editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki Colors are not only visual stimuli, but also social constructs that play a pivotal role in our perception, psychology, behavior and communication. Colors also evoke …

Continue reading

CFP: Special Issue: Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene, Lagoonscapes The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities Guest editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Both life and death are natural states of humans and non-humans, coexisting and at …

Continue reading

In Memoriam: Marnia Lazreg, CUNY Graduate Centre, February 23, 2024 See also Marnia Lazreg, Pathbreaking Hunter Sociology Professor, 83, Hunter CUNY, February 26, 2024 Marnia Lazreg, an emerita professor of sociology at Hunter College who was affiliated with the Graduate Center, died on January 13. She was 83 and was being treated for cancer at …

Continue reading

Beukes, J. The current four volumes of Michel Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité: a review of the state of research, 2022 (2023) Acta Academica, 55 (1), pp. 125-145. DOI: 10.38140/aa.v55i1.6493 Abstract By providing a review of the present state of research regarding French historian of ideas Michel Foucault’s (1926-1984) current four-volume series Histoire de la …

Continue reading

Eva Joyce, Rewilding tourism in the news: Power/knowledge and the Irish and UK news media discourses, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 104, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103718. Abstract: This study investigates how complex power relations shape the knowledge about rewilding tourism produced by the news media in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. A multi-level Foucauldian …

Continue reading

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Workshop “Like a Face Drawn in Sand at the Edge of the Sea.” Vicissitudes of the Posthuman Forty Years After Foucault’s Death. PDF of Workshop flyer WORKSHOP “Like a Face Drawn in Sand at the Edge of the Sea.” Vicissitudes of the Posthuman Forty Years After Foucault’s Death. “Does man really exist? …

Continue reading

Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball (04 Jan 2024): Without School: Education as Common(ing) Activities in Local Social Infrastructures – An Escape from Extinction Ethics, British Journal of Educational Studies DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2023.2298776 ABSTRACT In this third paper in a series of four, we explore some ways of doing education differently. An education that moves beyond …

Continue reading

Lisa Borrelli and William Walters, Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, (2024) https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241232325 Abstract It is hard to imagine how deportation regimes could function without the threat or the exercise of force. Yet surprisingly a focus on forces and bodies, and more generally the question …

Continue reading