Foucault News

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

Robert Badinter, a just man for posterity EDITORIAL Le Monde, 10 February 2024 The former French justice minister died on Friday. It is salutary to recall his righteousness and intransigence at a time when France’s interior minister is pitting politics against law, the role of the Constitutional Council is being challenged, and prison overcrowding is …

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Greer, K., King, H., Glackin, M. ‘Standing back’ or ‘stepping up’? Exploring climate change education policy influence in England (2023) British Educational Research Journal DOI: 10.1002/berj.3888 Abstract This paper explores the nature of climate change education-related policy influence in England at a time when public consciousness about the need to accelerate climate change action was …

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Bahmanteymouri, E., Mohammadzadeh, M. ‘Neoliberalism is dead’: Traversing neoliberal planning education is an exigency (2023) Policy Futures in Education DOI: 10.1177/14782103231181241 Abstract Neoliberalism has been the hegemonic ideology that has fundamentally transformed planning over the last four decades. Neoliberalism has significantly restructured pre-existing organisations, such as universities that were initially expanded during the period of …

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Tony Bennett, Habit’s Pathways. Repetition, Power, Conduct, Duke University Press, 2023 Habit has long preoccupied a wide range of theologians, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. In Habit’s Pathways Tony Bennett explores the political consequences of the varied ways in which habit’s repetitions have been acted on to guide or direct conduct. Bennett considers habit’s uses …

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Tony Bennett on habit, culture as a way of life, Bourdieu, Foucault, and decolonization – podcast (February 2024) The date is not listed on the site Interview with Toby Miller as part of his Cultural Studies podcast interviews Tony Bennett on habit, culture as a way of life, Bourdieu, Foucault, and decolonization You can read …

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Boland, T., Moore-Ponce, J. Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses (2023) European Journal of Social Theory DOI: 10.1177/13684310231179150 Abstract Confessional critiques proliferate in contemporary culture, remodelling critical politics as self-purification. Within Foucault’s work, critique is associated with resistance to power and subjectification, whereas confession appears a technique of disciplinary and pastoral power. …

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Gerardo Ienna & Matteo Vagelli, Bourdieu e Foucault: un confronto critico a proposito dei fondamenti della spazializzazione del potere, Quaderni di Teoria Sociale, V. 2 N. 1, 27 June 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.57611/qts.v2i1.237 Open access Abstract Our aim in this paper is to carry out a comparative analysis of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault – two …

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Servalli, S., Gitto, A., Gandelli, F. Florence flood and the rescue of the Florence state archives: The role of accounting and accountability (2023) Accounting History DOI: 10.1177/10323732231175711 Abstract This archival research aims to explore the role of accounting for natural disasters. It is focused on the 1966 Florence flood. Considering the role of Florence in …

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Editor: These passages are from Foucault’s original manuscript for “What is critique?” but weren’t included in his presentation to the Société française de Philosophie – the version that was published in 1978 in French and later in two separate English translations in 1996 and 1997. These passages appear in the new edition and translation of …

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