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

Mattioni, F.C., Rocha, C.M.F. (2023). Health Promotion in Primary Care: Michel Foucault’s Genealogy to Analyse Changes in Practices. In: Jourdan, D., Potvin, L. (eds) Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 3. Springer, Cham. pp. 69-81. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20401-2_7 Abstract This chapter aimed to present the methodological path of research that attempted to analyse Health Promotion …

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Kneipp, S.M., Drevdahl, D.J., Canales, M.K. Philanthropic Foundations’ Discourse and Nursing’s Future: Part I: History and Agency (2023) Advances in Nursing Science, 46 (2), pp. 158-168. DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000450 Abstract In this article, we examine external agents’ effect on nursing’s professional evolution and the consequences for the discipline’s collective agency, social contract, and self-regulation. Situated within …

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Luca Sciortino, History of Rationalities. Ways of Thinking from Vico to Hacking and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 About this book Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of ‘ways of thinking’. This book presents, compares, and contrasts these different notions. It focuses primarily on Ian Hacking’s idea of ‘style of reasoning’ …

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McDaid, E., Andon, P., Free, C. Algorithmic management and the politics of demand: Control and resistance at Uber (2023) Accounting, Organizations and Society DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2023.101465 Abstract Arguably the world’s most iconic platform organization, Uber relies on a disaggregated labour force and a technology application accessible to users on mobile devices. The company contracts with over …

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Sunendar, D., Adriany, V. ‘It’s all about the product’: doing research in neoliberal times in Indonesian higher education (2023) Globalisation, Societies and Education DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2023.2212438 Abstract This article explores Indonesian academics’ experiences in navigating the research process amidst the pressure of neoliberal ideology in higher education institutions in the country. Using Foucault’s concept of governmentality, …

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PhD Course: Foucault and Organization, Technology, and Subject-formation. 11th September – 14th September, 2023 Registration Deadline Monday 7 August 2023 at 09:00 Organizer Copenhagen Business School. PhD School Nina Iversen Phone: +45 3815 2475 ni.research@cbs.dk Michel Foucault’s work continues to offer a major source of inspiration for PhD projects across a wide range of disciplinary …

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Wallrup, E. On patheme: affective shifts and Gustavian culture (2023) Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 15 (1) DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2023.2209945 Abstract Despite the attention that the affective sphere has reached in the last decades, affectivity has generally been supposed to be a consequence of historical processes, not changing their direction. This article argues instead that affectivity …

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Michael Ledger-Lomas, Tracing the Hard Edges of Religion: On Peter Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind” Los Angeles Review of Books, 6 June 2023 […] No historian has evoked more vividly the strange waltz between a transcendent faith and earthly powers in the centuries from Constantine to Muhammad (a period the book’s author named “late antiquity”) …

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Rust, J.R. Ad Salutem Publicam: public health and pastoral government in More’s Utopia (2023) Textual Practice DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2205708 Abstract Discourses of health and disease pervade More’s Utopia. The text insistently plays upon the ambiguities of salus, a term with a wide semantic range including spiritual salvation, the physical health of the individual body, and the …

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Heylen, K.B. Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code (2023) New Media and Society DOI: 10.1177/14614448231166057 Abstract Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code requires Google and Facebook to negotiate payments with news publishers for news content appearing on the platforms. Facebook and Google lobbied against the code through …

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