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

Brosnan, C., Tickner, C., Davies, K., Heinsch, M., Steel, A., Vuolanto, P. The salutogenic gaze: Theorising the practitioner role in complementary and alternative medicine consultations (2023) Sociology of Health and Illness. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13629 Abstract Research on why people use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) shows clients value the CAM consultation, where they feel listened to …

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Salmenkari, T., Aldawoodi, S. Papers of the Paperless: Governmentality, Technologies of Freedom, and the Production of Asylum-Seeker Identities (2023) International Migration Review. DOI: 10.1177/01979183231154502 Abstract Refugees become asylum-seekers not only because the receiving country gives them the bureaucratic-legal status but also because they start to identify with the status. This article examines how refugees learn …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I discuss my recent book The Archaeology of Foucault (Polity, 2023) on the New Books Network with Dave O’Brien (audio) Dave has now generously discussed all the books in this series: Foucault’s Last Decade, 21 September 2016 Foucault: The Birth of Power, 6 November 2017 The Early Foucault, 11 February…

Di Pierro, M. (2022). Archaeology or interpretation: Michel Foucault and Claude Lefort. Constellations, 29, 434– 446. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12606 INTRODUCTION: LA POLITIQUE AND LE POLITIQUE On February 2, 1983, during his lecture at Collège de France, Michel Foucault criticizes the concept of the political (le politique). According to Foucault, the shift from politics (la politique) to the …

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Paul Rutherford, The Problem of Nature in Contemporary Social Theory, PhD thesis, Australian National University, 2000 Abstract This work examines the ways in which the relationship between society and nature is problematic for social theory. The Frankfurt School’s notion of the dialectic of enlightenment is considered, as are the attempts by Jurgen Habermas to defend …

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Mulberg, Jon. “The Challenge of Environmental Governance: Ecology and the Need for a Heterodox Political Economy.” The Journal of Australian Political Economy, no. 80 (2017): 129–54. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.308610660985029. Extracts AThis article will investigate the problem of environmental governance. It will question the scientific status of the discipline of economics, and suggest that economics is best viewed …

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Niesche, R. (2022). The Archaeology of Educational Leadership as an Enunciative Field. In: English, F.W. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99097-8_4 Abstract This chapter explores the notions of archaeology and discourse as central aspects of Michel Foucault’s method and considers how these concepts can be used to …

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Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition, A workshop hosted by the RHUL Centre for Continental Philosophy Royal Holloway University of London The workshop will take place in Senate House, Central London, on May 19th, 2023 To register for the conference, please use the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translation-archive-and-nachlass-in-the-continental-tradition-tickets-600187185027 We have put together this workshop to …

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Dana Schowalter, Shannon Stevens, Daniel L. Horvath, The Misogynistic Backlash Against Women-Strong Films, Routledge, 2022 Description This book is an exploration of the political struggle for visibility engendered by the growing number of women-centered popular films and a critical analysis of the intensifying misogynistic backlash that have accompanied such advances in the depiction of women …

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Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, Aurélie, ‘Foucault and Phenomenology, a Tense and Complex Relationship: From Anti-Phenomenology to Post-Phenomenology’, in François-Xavier de Vaujany, Jeremy Aroles, and Mar Pérezts (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies, Oxford Handbooks (2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 26 Jan. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192865755.013.13 Abstract In line with observers that have recently reconsidered the relationship between …

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