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

Xiao Han (2023) Disciplinary Power Matters: Rethinking Governmentality and Policy Enactment Studies in China, Journal of Education Policy, 38:3, 408-431, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2021.2014570 ABSTRACT Besides Foucault’s own focus on liberal contexts, the relatively limited application of his thoughts in illiberal countries may also result from the misunderstanding of power. The traditional juridico-discursive model interprets power as …

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Foucault in Chinese Educational Studies, Special Issue. Knowledge Cultures, vol. 7, no. 1, March 2019 Foucault In Chinese Educational Studies Michael A. Peters Aesthetic Education: toward a possible aesthetic life Xu Jinyuan Using Foucault’s theory of technologies of the self to examine the learning process in China’s math classrooms Chi Xiao Governmentality and private tutoring …

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Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds) The Viral Politics of Covid-19 Nature, Home, and Planetary Health. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. About this book This book ​ critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, …

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Chen, Z., & Wang, C. Y. (2019). The Discipline of Happiness: The Foucauldian Use of the “Positive Energy” Discourse in China’s Ideological Works. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 48(2), 201–225. https://doi.org/10.1177/1868102619899409 Abstract One important question about ideological works in China concerns the tension between mobilisation (encouraging public expression) and control (limiting public expression). Recently Xi …

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Aurora Cathrin Eidem Adolfsen, Queer Case of Dr Jekyll’s Double Life. A Queer Reading of R. L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) Bachelor’s thesis in English for teacher training students, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Supervisor: Wassim Rustom, May 2023 Abstract This bachelor’s thesis is a queer reading …

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Originally posted on affecognitive:
Lectures on the Will to Know (Leçons sur la volonté de savoir) contains Michel Foucault’s inaugural lectures at the Collège de France from December 1970 to March 1971. The published text gathers Foucault’s written notes and manuscripts into a considered presentation of what his oration might have been. I stress the…

van der Merwe, Tania Rauch, Elelwani Lara Ramugondo, and André Keet. 2023. “Crafting a Foucauldian Archaeology Method: A Critical Analysis of Occupational Therapy Curriculum-as-Discourse, South Africa” Social Sciences 12, no. 7: 393. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12070393 Abstract South Africa has a colonial and apartheid past of social injustice, epistemological oppression, and exclusion. These mechanisms are historically inscribed in …

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Bommenel, E., Richard, E., Reid, S. Using teaching and learning regimes in the international classroom to encourage student re-subjectification (2023) Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, 6 (1), pp. 81-92. DOI: 10.37074/jalt.2023.6.1.14 Abstract This paper addresses one of the pedagogical challenges that followed the presence of increasingly multinational student groups, particularly the increased diversity of …

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He, Q. Avowal or Obedience: Foucault on the Solution to the Dilemma of Examination of Conscience and Its Influences (2023) Logos and Pneuma – Chinese Journal of Theology, 2023 (58), pp. 169-195. Note: This article is in Chinese Abstract Michel Foucault analyzed the ideas of John Cassian, a Church Father who lived in the 4th …

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