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

Ashley, L., Perron, A. Examining the role of nurse executives in homecare through the lens of the Sociology of Ignorance and Critical Management Studies (2023) Nursing Philosophy DOI: 10.1111/nup.12445 Abstract This article presents a novel theoretical approach to explore nurse executives’ paradoxical identity and agency of executive and nurse in homecare organizations. This complex phenomenon …

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Harrahill, K., Macken-Walsh, Á., O’Neill, E. Prospects for the bioeconomy in achieving a Just Transition: perspectives from Irish beef farmers on future pathways (2023) Journal of Rural Studies, 100 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103020 Abstract Many beef farm systems in Irish and some global contexts have economic and environmental traits that threaten their future sustainability. In this context, …

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Giovana Carmo Temple, O acontecimento como uma saída à verdade da prática discursiva, Lampião Revista de Filosofia, v.3, n.1, 2022, Publicado: 01/06/2023 Resumo Neste artigo, desenvolvo uma reflexão da noção de acontecimento nos textos de Foucault, particularmente nos livros L’archéologie du savoir (1969) e L’ordre du discours (1971). O objetivo é mostrar como Foucault retoma …

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Marcio Luiz Miotto, Michel Foucault e “A questão antropológica” – precisões históricas e conceituais Lampião Revista de Filosofia, v.3, n.1, 2022, Publicado: 01/06/2023 Resumo O presente trabalho pretende estabelecer algumas precisões históricas e conceituas em torno da formação da história arqueológica de Michel Foucault, tendo como foco um livro póstumo e recém lançado, intitulado La …

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Carol Bacchi, Why Study Problematizations? Making Politics Visible, Open Journal of Political Science, Vol.2, No.1, 2012 1-8 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2012.21001 Open access Abstract This paper introduces the theoretical concept, problematization, as it is developed in Foucauldian-inspired poststructural analysis. The objective is two-fold: first, to show how a study of problematizations politicizes taken-for-granted “truths”; and second, to illustrate …

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Joanne Entwistle, The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory, 3rd Edition, Polity, 2023 The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about ‘cultural’ and …

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Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism Editors: Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Christopher John Müller, Lving Reference Work, Palgrave, 2020 About this book Presents a comprehensive view of posthumanism, the posthuman and their genealogies. Critically discusses important strands and issues raised within the discourse of posthumanism. Highlights the ways in …

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Moon, K., Cho, H.D. Biopolitics and a right to tourism (2023) Current Issues in Tourism DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2203852 Abstract Tourism as a right was officially stated in the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (1999) and it would be granted normative status once the Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics (2020) is legally binding. As such, the …

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Paolucci, C. Pre‐Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions” (2023) Media and Communication, 11 (2), pp. 101-108. DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6628 Abstract In this article, I will work on the idea of Pre‐Truth (as opposed to post‐truth) and Semiological Guerrilla (as opposed to fake news), claiming that these two concepts are …

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Critical global citizenship: Foucault as a complexity thinker, social justice and the challenges of higher education in the era of neo-liberal globalization – A conversation with Mark Olssen, Authors: Emiliano Bosio, Mark Olssen Citizenship Teaching & Learning, Volume 18, Issue Philosophical, Ethical and Pedagogical Visions of Global Citizenship Education: Critical Perspectives from International Educators, Jun …

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