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 …
Taylor, Chloe (2012). “Foucault and Familial Power”. Hypatia, 27 (1), p. 201-18. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01171.x Abstract This paper provides an overview of Michel Foucault’s continually changing observations on familial power, as well as the feminist-Foucauldian literature on the family. It suggests that these accounts offer fragments of a genealogy of the family that undermine any all-encompassing or …
Thompson, Malcolm (2012). “Foucault, fields of governability, and the population-family-economy nexus in China”. History and theory, 51 (1), p. 42-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2012.00611.x Abstract It was only in the early twentieth century that China discovered that it had a population, at least if a population is understood not as a simple number of people but instead in …
The first issue of an exciting new half-yearly peer reviewed journal entirely dedicated to Foucault and the applications of his thought materiali foucaultiani is now available online. It is open access and freely available for download. The first issue includes a special section devoted to the “Geographies of power: space and heterotopias, beginning from Foucault”. …
Herrmann, A. F. (2012). “”I Know I’m Unlovable”: Desperation, Dislocation, Despair, and Discourse on the Academic Job Hunt”. Qualitative inquiry, 18 (3), p. 247-55 https://doi.org/10.1177/107780041143156 Abstract Failure, according to the academic canonical narrative, is anything other than a tenure-track professorship. The academic job hunt is fraught with unknowns: a time of fear, hope, and despair. …
Richard Sennett: ‘Big society? It’s to keep the bankers happy … ‘ Interview by Andrew Anthony, The Observer, Sunday 12 February 2012 Q: You were friends with the celebrated and late French intellectual Michel Foucault. What was he like? RS: He was a great friend to me and his other friends. I know he was …
Foucault Reading Group The Courage of Truth Manchester University 10am – 12 noon in Geoffrey Manton Room 333, fortnightly, commencing 24th February 2012 This reading group will focus on the last lectures given by Michel Foucault at The Collège de France in February-March 1984, a few months before his death. Continuing the theme of the …
Jessica Whyte, Human Rights: Confronting Governments? Michel Foucault and the Right to Intervene Published later as chapter in New Critical Legal Thinking. Law and the Political, Edited By Matthew Stone, Illan Wall, Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck Law Press, 2012 The Writing & Society Research Centre and the Philosophy Research Initiative at UWS TIME: March 21, 2-4pm …
La gouvernementalité socialiste Quatrième soirée-débat : avec Pierre Dardot et Christian Laval Saint-Simon et Marx : gouvernement des hommes et administration des choses mardi 20 mars 2012, à 19h au Lieu-Dit (6 rue Sorbier, Paris, M° Ménilmontant) France Présentation du séminaire : Dans une formule provocatrice, Michel Foucault estimait « qu’il n’y a pas de …
Encountering the Other: Philosophical Perspectives on Recognition Date: Saturday, 31st March 2012 Time: 9am-6pm Venue: Newman House, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland Speakers: Lois McNay (Oxford University) Alice Le Goff (Université Paris V Descartes) Katherine Morris (Oxford University) Arto Laitinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam) Respondents: To be Confirmed Workshop …
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