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

James, K., Elliott, S. Student-Led Cricket Matches as a Product of Coaching/Mentoring An Autoethnographic Account (2023) Boyhood Studies, 16 (1), pp. 40-64. DOI: 10.3167/bhs.2023.160104 Abstract Using a historical, autoethnographic approach in this article, we discuss six student-led cricket matches that we organized in Perth, Australia, from 1979 to 1981. From a Foucauldian perspective, we present …

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Michel Foucault et la théologie politique. Sous la direction de Agustín Colombo, Laval théologique et philosophique, Volume 79, numéro 3, 2023, p. 327-497, Diffusion numérique : 13 novembre 2023 Dossier Liminaire — Michel Foucault et la théologie politique : un rapport problématique Agustín Colombo et Jean Leclercq Théologie politique et pouvoir pastoral : Foucault contre …

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Agustín Colombo, Christianisme et subjectivité chez Michel Foucault, Hermann, 2023. Quel est le rôle que Michel Foucault attribue au christianisme dans la formation de la subjectivité ? Faut-il conclure que, pour lui, le christianisme constitue exclusivement le noyau formateur des principales dynamiques de pouvoir qui gouvernent et façonnent la subjectivité contemporaine ? Ou peut-on, en …

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Círculo de Estudios Foucaultianos. A new initiative based in Peru. Please contact Leonardo Banos for further details leonardo.banos@unmsm.edu.pe ¡Presentamos el Círculo de Estudios Foucaultianos! Colectivo con la finalidad de estudiar y divulgar la obra de Michel Foucault, contribuyendo en el desarrollo de la comunidad hispanoamericana. Sigannos para mantenerse informados de nuestras actividades. We are glad …

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Tilleczek, William. “On the Ownership of the Means of Training: Domination, Asceticism, and Capacities of Resistance.” Theory & Event 26, no. 4 (2023): 701-726. https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2023.a909213. Abstract: This article argues that asceticism—understood in the etymological sense of “training”—can productively be incorporated into analyses of politics. It is of particular use in thinking through questions of inequality …

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Dean, J. From solidarity to self-promotion? Neoliberalism and left politics in the age of the social media influencer (2023) Capital and Class DOI: 10.1177/03098168231199907 Abstract The aim of this article is to map the contested intersections of influencer culture and left/progressive politics within the current conjuncture. Furthermore, drawing on a combination of Gramscian and Foucaultian …

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Schultz, Daniel J. Review of The History of Sexuality, Volume 4: Confessions of the Flesh, by Michel Foucault. The Comparatist 47 (2023): 413-424. https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2023.a911953 Extract When Volumes 2 and 3 of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality appeared in 1984, a publisher’s insert announced the imminent arrival of a fourth volume, Confessions of the Flesh. …

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Stewart Clegg and Johan Ninan, Unravelling governmentality in project ecologies (2023) Project Leadership and Society, 4, DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2023.100099 Abstract Under the rubric of project governance, governmentality has been defined as a general mode of governing people in projects, whether these projects are organized in an authoritarian, liberal, or neo-liberal mode in their approach to authority …

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Michael, R., Donnar, G. Crosshatch Fantasy: Unsettling Portals, Crisis Heterotopias, and Comings-of-Age (2023) in Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy, Palgrave, 2023, pp. 71-83. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26397-2_6 Abstract This chapter introduces an intriguing concept of ‘crosshatch’ fantasy: another world that is superimposed upon consensus reality. Using Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia …

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