Foucault News

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

Nesbet, Anne, Discipline Made Visible: Abram Room’s The Ghost That Never Returns and the Fantastic Origins of Foucault’s Panopticon (2023) Russian Review, DOI: 10.1111/russ.12397 ABSTRACT: In 1967 Abram Room’s film, The Ghost That Never Returns (1929), traveled to the Cinémathèque de Toulouse (France) and was conspicuously featured in the following year at a major festival …

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Christofidou, A., Milioni, D.L. Art heterotopias against hegemonic discourses: Dancing the Cyprus conflict (2022) European Journal of Cultural Studies DOI: 10.1177/13675494221118385 Abstract We provide an analysis of dance as a practice and an ‘Other’ space; a counter-hegemonic ‘space’, which is affected by the existing social ordering, while simultaneously resisting it. We employ Foucault’s concept of …

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Jeff Justice, Biopolitics of Disasters: Hurricane Irma and Climate Change. Green European Journal, 3 November 2017 Recent hurricanes and natural disasters give rise to the question of how countries and people can recover and where they should get support from. French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics can reshape how to view human-aided …

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Tebkew, M., Atinkut, H.B. Impact of forest decentralization on sustainable forest management and livelihoods in East Africa (2022) Trees, Forests and People, 10, art. no. 100346 DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100346 Abstract The paper examines how forest decentralization affects forest management and sustainable livelihoods in East Africa. For this review, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania were chosen as …

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Diego Andreucci, Christos Zografos, Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change, Political Geography, Volume 92, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102512. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629821001724) Abstract: In this article, we argue that othering is central to the government of climate change. Critically engaging with Foucault’s ideas on biopolitics and racism, we elaborate a conceptual perspective for analysing …

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Luke, T.W. Investment and Rapid Climate Change as Biopolitics: Foucault and Governance of the Self and Others through ESG. Sustainability 2022, 14, 14974. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214974 Abstract: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies today are an established practice in personal and public finance. They also provide crucial benchmarks for corporate social responsibility policy in gauging the …

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Grinberg, S. Between Responsibility and “Responsibilization”: The Everyday Making of School in Buenos Aires Slums In S. Nombuso Dlamini, Angela Stienen (Eds.), Spatialized Injustice in the Contemporary City Protesting as Public Pedagogy, Routledge, 2022 Abstract On the basis of field work conducted in the periphery of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, this chapter discusses some …

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Shmidt, V. (2023). Vitalist Arguments in the Struggle for Human (Im)Perfection: The Debate Between Biologists and Theologians in the 1960s–1980s. In: Donohue, C., Wolfe, C.T. (eds) Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy. History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_12 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_12 Open access Abstract …

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Mooney, J. Personal narratives, public risk: using Foucault’s ‘confessional’ to examine adult retrospective disclosures of childhood abuse (2023) Health, Risk and Society, . DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2023.2166019 Abstract Disclosure of childhood sexual abuse is a process that is often laden with boundary testing, decision-making and, at times, risk. Disclosures tend to be delayed, often into adulthood and …

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Schweyer, M. (2022). Généalogie du gouvernement de la famille: Foucault et l’histoire politique de l’autorité familiale. Archives de Philosophie, 85, 89-107. https://doi.org/10.3917/aphi.854.0089 Résumé À la fin de Surveiller et Punir, Foucault indique qu’il faudrait étudier les débats révolutionnaires sur le droit des parents à faire enfermer leurs enfants, pour prolonger son analyse de la discipline …

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