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

Jean-Marie Durand, De Deleuze à Foucault, la “French Theory” illustrée dans un magistral essai graphique, Les Inrockuptibles, 28 octobre 2025 French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle de François Cusset, Thomas Daquin (La Découverte, Delcourt, 2025) Avec “French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle”, François Cusset et Thomas Daquin rendent accessibles les concepts-clé de la french theory, …

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François Cusset, Thomas Daquin, French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle (La Découverte, Delcourt, 2025) On connaissait la French Pop , mais connaissez-vous la French Theory ? Comment Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida… sont devenus des stars aux USA et comment leurs théories, sur la déconstruction, le genre, les inégalités ont façonné le débat contemporain. Entre wokistes et …

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Thakur, S. Environmental crises as crises of representation: Community rights and natural resource (Mis) management in India. Jindal Global Law Review 16, 357–386 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-025-00273-3 Abstract If one has to look for the origin to diffusing environmental crises, one must look in the forests and the usurpation of its governance from communities by the developmental …

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Call for papers XIV MICHEL FOUCAULT INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM: 50 YEARS OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY May 26 to 29, 2026 Federal University of Bahia, in Salvador, Brazil. Instagram contact: foucaultnabahia@gmail.com _______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION OF APPLICANTS: ORAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THEMATIC SYMPOSIUMS AND PANELS 1. OVERVIEW The XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium: 50 Years …

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Richard Niesche and Denise Mifsud, Thinking with Michel Foucault in Educational Leadership. Methodological and Conceptual Challenges, Bloomsbury, 2025. This book brings together key scholars using Foucault in educational leadership to provide an overview of his methodologies, concepts, and examples of applications. Written for both those new to and experienced with Foucault’s work, this book explores …

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Gibbs, E., Mackenzie, E., McKinlay, A., McNulty, D., Philips, J., Procter, S. Governing the factory: microhistories of the present (2024) Management and Organizational History DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2409127 Abstract Microhistory is an established form of cultural history but marginal to management and organization history. Methodologically, microhistory searches out moments and practices that are meaningful to participants but …

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Reid-Pharr, R.F. Monster in the Archive (2024) James Baldwin Review, 10 (1), pp. 21-35. DOI: 10.7227/JBR.10.2 Abstract “Monster in the Archive” asks what the presence of a figure with a massive archival presence like James Baldwin does to our understanding of the presumed “absence” or “lack” of Black subjects in American archives. Paying careful attention …

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Sheehey, B. Between a scalpel and a touch, or, Foucault’s ways of writing the dead (2023) Diacritics, 51 (3), pp. 8-29. DOI: 10.1353/dia.2023.a938173 Abstract This essay draws on Michel Foucault’s reflections on his writing practice to develop a reading of his historical inquiries as exercises of what I call “death-writing.” Death-writing is a type of …

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Mills, J., & Thue Bjørndal, C. (2025). Endurance running coaching’s mechanical topography: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of coaches’ knowledges. Sports Coaching Review, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2025.2541142 ABSTRACT Michel Foucault was part of a French revolution of history seeking deeper understandings of history beyond narratives of “great men” and their events. As a historian of the body and …

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