Foucault News

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

In Memoriam: Marnia Lazreg, CUNY Graduate Centre, February 23, 2024 See also Marnia Lazreg, Pathbreaking Hunter Sociology Professor, 83, Hunter CUNY, February 26, 2024 Marnia Lazreg, an emerita professor of sociology at Hunter College who was affiliated with the Graduate Center, died on January 13. She was 83 and was being treated for cancer at …

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Beukes, J. The current four volumes of Michel Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité: a review of the state of research, 2022 (2023) Acta Academica, 55 (1), pp. 125-145. DOI: 10.38140/aa.v55i1.6493 Abstract By providing a review of the present state of research regarding French historian of ideas Michel Foucault’s (1926-1984) current four-volume series Histoire de la …

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Eva Joyce, Rewilding tourism in the news: Power/knowledge and the Irish and UK news media discourses, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 104, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103718. Abstract: This study investigates how complex power relations shape the knowledge about rewilding tourism produced by the news media in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. A multi-level Foucauldian …

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Workshop “Like a Face Drawn in Sand at the Edge of the Sea.” Vicissitudes of the Posthuman Forty Years After Foucault’s Death. PDF of Workshop flyer WORKSHOP “Like a Face Drawn in Sand at the Edge of the Sea.” Vicissitudes of the Posthuman Forty Years After Foucault’s Death. “Does man really exist? …

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Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball (04 Jan 2024): Without School: Education as Common(ing) Activities in Local Social Infrastructures – An Escape from Extinction Ethics, British Journal of Educational Studies DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2023.2298776 ABSTRACT In this third paper in a series of four, we explore some ways of doing education differently. An education that moves beyond …

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Lisa Borrelli and William Walters, Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, (2024) https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241232325 Abstract It is hard to imagine how deportation regimes could function without the threat or the exercise of force. Yet surprisingly a focus on forces and bodies, and more generally the question …

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Colombo, Agustín. 2023. «El quiasmo no ontológico de la carne. El enfoque de la subjetividad en las investigaciones tardías de Michel Foucault y su relación con Merleau-Ponty». Logos. Anales del Seminario de Metafísica 56, nº 2: 269-85. https://doi.org/10.5209/asem.88549 Resumen ¿De qué manera el problema de la carne permite analizar el vínculo que tiene el pensamiento …

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Peter W Shay, Precluding Critical Pedagogy: Ethical Democracy and the Tyranny of Functional Metrics, Visible Learning, and Data Surveillance, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Volume 21, Number 3, pp. 26-58 http://www.jceps.com/archives/16139 Open access Abstract Through a Foucauldian theoretical framework, this article contests the efficacy of the modern assessable and visible learning curriculum, and analyses …

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