Thanks to Stuart at Progressive Geographies for this information History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor. Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in establishing categories of contemporary debate by making them appear inevitable, natural or culturally …
Strausz, Erzsebet. “Foucault, Critique and Security/Studies” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association Annual Conference “Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition”, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, Mar 16, 2011 . 2011-01-25 Abstract: This paper investigates the implications of a Foucauldian perspective for interrogating both practices of security and …
Politics Beyond the Biopolitical Subject A Symposium Brisbane, Australia, December 8-9, 2011 Hosted by Griffith University Funded by the Finnish Academy The theory of biopolitics has, in the years since Michel Foucault first deployed the concept, taken a decidedly affirmative turn. No longer is biopolitics theorized simply to expose the violence done to human beings …
FOUCAULT ET LA RENAISSANCE COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL Toulouse, 7, 8, 9 mars 2012 Colloque organisé par le laboratoire PLH de l’Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail et l’Institut Universitaire de France, avec la collaboration du CERPHI et de l’UMR5037 (Lyon) Le présent colloque vise, dans une optique naturellement pluridisciplinaire, à convier littéraires, philosophes, historiens à penser le rapport …
Gary Gutting, Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960, The Oxford History of Philosophy, 978-0-19-922703-7 | Hardback | 10 March 2011 Review in The Guardian Description The late 20th century saw a remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France. The work of French philosophers is wide ranging, historically informed, often reaching out beyond the boundaries of …
« Une histoire au présent : Les historiens et Michel Foucault aujourd’hui » 30, 31 mai – 1er juin 2011 Aix-en-Provence Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme salle Georges Duby Colloque organisé par Damien BOQUET, Blaise DUFAL et Pauline LABEY Institut Universitaire de France CNRS – Université d’Aix-Marseille I UMR TELEMME EHESS – Centre de …
The IVR XXV WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY will take place at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany, from August 15th to 20th 2011. All the papers effectively presented in this special workshop will be translated into Portuguese, with the permission of the author, and published as a book in Brazil, possibily a …
Bracken, Pat, and Philip Thomas. “From Szasz to Foucault: On the Role of Critical Psychiatry.” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 17, no. 3 (2010): 219-228. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/405314 Abstract Because psychiatry deals specifically with ‘mental’ suffering, its efforts are always centrally involved with the meaningful world of human reality. As such, it sits at the interface of a …
Niesche, R. (2011). Foucault and Educational Leadership: Disciplining the Principal. London: Routledge. Link to publisher’s site Description This book draws on a number of Foucault’s concepts to explore how school principals are created as subjects through their work practices and various educational leadership discourses. Foucault’s work is useful for provoking new thought into how the …
Jean-François Bert, Introduction à Michel Foucault, Editions La Découverte (6 janvier 2011) Sommaire Michel Foucault (1926-1984) aura été en France le plus novateur des maîtres à penser, maître par défaut, sans programme articulé, qui a su pourtant offrir à ses nombreux lecteurs issus des disciplines les plus variées une « boîte à outils » qu’il …
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