Foucault News

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

Papoli-Yazdi, L., Hogland, W. Wreckage Installation: Towards an Archaeology of Southern Sweden’s Heterotopias (2023) European Journal of Archaeology, 26 (2), pp. 189-208. DOI: 10.1017/eaa.2022.44 Abstract During a survey on the island of Öland in south-eastern Sweden, whose aim was to study the local waste-disposal practices, the authors recorded abandoned machinery and cars dating from the …

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Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre. À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt, Éditions Mimésis, 2023 Cet essai est consacré aux analyses de Michel Foucault sur la guerre, un sujet qui n’a pas toujours reçu l’attention qu’il mérite et qui joue pourtant un rôle déterminant dans l’œuvre de l’auteur. Les réflexions de Foucault sont ici mises …

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Jonathan Saha, Colonizing Animals. Interspecies Empire in Myanmar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Book description Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals were impacted and transformed by colonial subjugation. By examining the …

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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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