Purabi Bose, Bas Arts, Han van Dijk, (2012). “‘Forest governmentality’: A genealogy of subject-making of forest-dependent ‘scheduled tribes’ in India”. Land use policy, 29 (3), pp. 664-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.11.002 Abstract This paper analyses the historical trajectories of both British colonial rule and independent India to categorise scheduled tribes and to appropriate and legalise forests in tribal …
Minka Woermann (2012), Interpreting Foucault: an evaluation of a Foucauldian critique of education. South African Journal of Education Vol 32:111-120 https://dx.doi.org/10.15700/saje.v32n1a560 Abstract The potential strengths and weaknesses of a Foucauldian critique of education are discussed and evaluated. The article focuses specifically on the value of Foucault’s work for critiquing social and political ideologies prevalent in …
Séminaire “La décolonisation des savoirs. Pour une géographie postcoloniale de la connaissance” (sous la direction de Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Matthieu Renault) Mercredi 11 avril 2012, 14h-17h Université Paris-Est Créteil, Maison des Langues, salle 117 Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot) « Depuis la première publication en France de l’Orientalisme d’Edward Saïd, une place a-t-elle …
Deutscher, P. (2012). “Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Volume I: Re-reading its Reproduction”. Theory, culture & society, 29 (1), p. 119-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411423772 Abstract This paper interrogates the status of the Malthusian couple and the policing and government of reproduction in the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Volume I (HS1), and the associated College de …
Ben Golder, Foucault, Rights and Freedom, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (11 February 2012), pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-012-9259-8 Abstract As dominant liberal conceptions of the relationship between rights and freedom maintain, freedom is a property of the individual human subject and rights are a mechanism for protecting that freedom—whether it be the freedom to …
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Luca Paltrinieri, « L’archéologie à l’épreuve de l’analyse du langage : Foucault avec Wittgenstein » Quatrième séance du séminaire « Philosophie française & Philosophie analytique au 20e siècle » Mardi 3 avril 2012, 17h-19h, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France Il est désormais connu que Foucault connaissait et lisait l’œuvre du philosophe autrichien pendant l’écriture de …
Michel Foucault, Sull’origine dell’ermeneutica del sé, Cronopio, 114 pages, These lectures are not as yet published in French. The edition, translation, notes and foreword are by mf / materiali foucaultiani (Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli). The afterword is by Arnold I. Davidson.
Marquez, Xavier (2012). “Spaces of Appearance and Spaces of Surveillance”. Polity, 44 (1), p. 6-31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41426920 Abstract Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault developed different but complementary theories about visibility and power In an Arendtian “space of appearance,” the common visibility of actors generates power, which is understood as the potential for collective action. In a …
Bourcier, M.-H. (2012). “Cultural translation, politics of disempowerment and the reinvention of queer power and politics”. Sexualities, 15 (1), p. 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460711432107 Abstract This article addresses the task of describing the flows and trends of cultural translation of queer between the USA and Europe, particularly France. Firstly, it demonstrates how queer groups located in France …
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