Richard Niesche and Denise Mifsud, Thinking with Michel Foucault in Educational Leadership. Methodological and Conceptual Challenges, Bloomsbury, 2025. This book brings together key scholars using Foucault in educational leadership to provide an overview of his methodologies, concepts, and examples of applications. Written for both those new to and experienced with Foucault’s work, this book explores …
Gibbs, E., Mackenzie, E., McKinlay, A., McNulty, D., Philips, J., Procter, S. Governing the factory: microhistories of the present (2024) Management and Organizational History DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2409127 Abstract Microhistory is an established form of cultural history but marginal to management and organization history. Methodologically, microhistory searches out moments and practices that are meaningful to participants but …
Reid-Pharr, R.F. Monster in the Archive (2024) James Baldwin Review, 10 (1), pp. 21-35. DOI: 10.7227/JBR.10.2 Abstract “Monster in the Archive” asks what the presence of a figure with a massive archival presence like James Baldwin does to our understanding of the presumed “absence” or “lack” of Black subjects in American archives. Paying careful attention …
Sheehey, B. Between a scalpel and a touch, or, Foucault’s ways of writing the dead (2023) Diacritics, 51 (3), pp. 8-29. DOI: 10.1353/dia.2023.a938173 Abstract This essay draws on Michel Foucault’s reflections on his writing practice to develop a reading of his historical inquiries as exercises of what I call “death-writing.” Death-writing is a type of …
Mills, J., & Thue Bjørndal, C. (2025). Endurance running coaching’s mechanical topography: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of coaches’ knowledges. Sports Coaching Review, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2025.2541142 ABSTRACT Michel Foucault was part of a French revolution of history seeking deeper understandings of history beyond narratives of “great men” and their events. As a historian of the body and …
Jul 1, 2024 Theoretical Puppets: N is for Nietzsche (Michel Foucault)
Matthieu Queloz, The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering, Oxford University Press, 2021 Open access Abstract Why did such highly abstract ideas as truth, knowledge, or justice become so important to us? What was the point of coming to think in these terms? In The Practical Origins of Ideas, Matthieu Queloz presents a …
PhD course: Foucault and Organization, Technology, and Subject-formation (4 ECTS) Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen, Denmark: Monday 1 June 2026 to Thursday 4 June 2026 LINK to full program and registration: https://phdsupport.nemtilmeld.dk/250/ Course coordinator: Kaspar Villadsen, Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL) Faculty Professor Sverre Raffnsøe Department of Business Humanities and Law, CBS Associate Professor …
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po, Paris Registration link for anyone who might wish to attend online Friday, November 7, 2025 (room K011) 9:15–10:00 – Introduction Judith Revel (Université Paris Nanterre) & Frédéric Gros (Sciences Po) 10:00–10:30 – Coffee break (for speakers and audience) 10:30–12:00 – Panel 1: Building Feminist …
Ladelle McWhorter, Unbecoming Persons. The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self, University of Chicago Press, 2025 Interview with Ladelle McWhorter on the New Books Network, Oct 20, 2025. A damning genealogy of modern personhood and a bold vision for a new ethics rooted in belonging rather than individuality. In the face of ecological …
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