Foucault News

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

Bonsu Samuel K. and Polsa Pia (2011). “Governmentality at the Base-of-the-Pyramid”. Journal of macromarketing, 31 (3), pp. 236-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276146711407506 Abstract The Base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) corporate strategy perceives market-based solutions to the problem of global poverty. The strategy is premised on the view that people in BoP markets live in fundamental lack, which can be overcome with …

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Steve Urbanski, The Identity Game: Michel Foucault’s Discourse-Mediated Identity as an Effective Tool for Achieving a Narrative-Based Ethic, The Open Ethics Journal, 2011, 5, 3-9 Open access pdf Abstract: This article examines in hermeneutic fashion the philosophy of Michel Foucault and isolates an identity matrix that can assist humans in navigating the often numerous and …

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Tucker, Elizabeth (2011). Review “Late Friends: Remembering Michel Foucault, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Wassily Leontief, Alan Lomax, William Kunstler and Others Who Changed Tense”. The Journal of American folklore (0021-8715), 124 (491), pp. 119-20. Review of Bruce Jackson, Late Friends: Remembering Michel Foucault, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Wassily Leontief, Alan Lomax, William Kunstler and Others …

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Lloyd, Vincent. (2011). “Violence: Religious, Theological, Ontological”. Review of The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict by William T. Cavanaugh Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009″. Theory, culture & society, 28 (5), pp. 144-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/026327641139930 Abstract Violence may be productively understood as a secularized theological concept. Doing so challenges claims …

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Lucian Popescu, Foucault, cunoasterea si istoria, Editura Institutul European Publisher’s page Pdf of abstract in English Extract from Abstract in English Foucault, Knowledge, and History This synthesis on Foucault’s ideas and subjects (author, discourse, sexuality, madness, technologies, methods of writing and representing knowledge, power-knowledge etc.) presents a new way of understanding knowledge, power, history beyond …

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Claire Blencowe, Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Description Biopolitical Experience offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics – situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book …

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Kalmbach Phillips, Donna (2011). “Biopower, disciplinary power, and the production of the ‘good Latino/a teacher’”. Discourse, 32 (1), p. 71. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2011.537074 Abstract This inquiry explores who is the ‘good teacher of color’. Through Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower and disciplinary power, the analysis attempts to problematize the subject-position of ‘teacher of color’ by exploring how …

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Wang, Chia-Ling (2011). “Power/Knowledge for Educational Theory: Stephen Ball and the Reception of Foucault”. Journal of philosophy of education, 45 (1), p. 141. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00789.x Abstract This paper explores the significance of the concept of power/knowledge in educational theory. The argument proceeds in two main parts. In the first, I consider aspects of Stephen J. Ball’s …

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Hardy, Nick (2011). “Foucault, Genealogy, Emergence: Re-Examining The Extra-Discursive”. Journal for the theory of social behaviour, 41 (1), p. 68. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2010.00446.x Abstract This paper offers an alternative theorization of a well known account of restructured social relations-Foucault’s analysis of the production of “delinquency” in Discipline and Punish. The paper argues that in his later “genealogical” …

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Mendel, Maria (2011). “Heterotopias of Homelessness: Citizenship on the Margins”. Studies in philosophy and education, 30 (2), p. 155-68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-011-9226-y Abstract The concept of heterotopia challenges political theory, which has often focused on utopic thinking. Foucault describes a heterotopia as a heterogenous space that juxtaposes in a single real place several spaces, several sites that …

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