Foucault News

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

Jenkins, Laura (2011). “The Difference Genealogy Makes: Strategies for Politicisation or How to Extend Capacities for Autonomy”. Political studies, 59 (1), p. 156-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00844.x Abstract Processes of politicisation and depoliticisation have become the empirical and theoretical focus for a growing body of political studies. However, the disparate literatures on these processes conceptualise and explore them …

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Martina Tazzioli, Politiche della verità. Michel Foucault e il neoliberalismo Ombre Corte, 2011 Si può parlare di una funzione critica del liberalismo inteso come “stile governamentale” e non (solo) come tecnologia di potere? Fino a che punto, tuttavia, è possibile mantenere quest’attitudine critica dal momento che il liberalismo contemporaneo si struttura in un “regime di …

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Bay, U. (2011). “Unpacking neo-liberal technologies of government in Australian higher education social work departments”. Journal of social work, 11 (2), p. 222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017310386696 Abstract The Summary: This article analyses how neo-liberal and managerialist policies, over the last two decades in Australia, have positioned university staff as self-managing individuals. Social work academics are positioned as …

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Vansieleghem, Nancy (2011). Philosophy with Children as an Exercise in Parrhesia: An Account of a Philosophical Experiment with Children in Cambodia. Journal of philosophy of education, 45 (2), p. 321-37. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00803.x Abstract The last few decades have seen a steady growth of interest in doing philosophy with children and young people in educational settings. …

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Call for papers: Panel on Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governance Part of the 7th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis. The conference for 2012 is titled ‘Understanding the Drama of Democracy. Policy Work, Power and Transformation’. The International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis has travelled through Europe. After visiting Birmingham, Amsterdam, Essex, Kassel, Grenoble and Cardiff, …

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Legg, Stephen (2011). “Assemblage/apparatus: using Deleuze and Foucault”. Area, 43 (2), p. 128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2011.01010.x Abstract In this commentary I would like to offer some reflections on the Deleuzian concept of ‘assemblage’ (agencement) from the perspective of my grounding in ‘governmentality studies’ and, secondly, on the latter’s central concern with the concept of the security ‘apparatus’ …

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Thibaut Bardon and Emmanuel Josserand (2011). “A Nietzschean reading of Foucauldian thinking: constructing a project of the self within an ontology of becoming”. Organization, 18 (4), p. 497-515. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508410384758 Abstract As influential as Michel Foucault may be in organization theory, several critics have seriously questioned the epistemological foundations of the Foucauldian philosophical project (Ackroyd and …

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Machado, R. Foucault, philosophy, and literature, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Volume 16, Issue 2, 1 March 2012, Pages 227-234 https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2012.668814 Abstract This article focuses on Foucault’s archeological books: Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things. It addresses two issues in particular: first, Foucault’s criticism of modern philosophical and …

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