May, L. Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City (2022) Games and Culture DOI: 10.1177/15554120221115398 Abstract Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City has found new life in videogames during the three decades since its demolition, taking on unstable and sometimes contradictory forms when reimagined through virtual architecture. At stake in these acts of …
Jones, L., Avner, Z., Denison, J. “After the Dust Settles”: Foucauldian Narratives of Retired Athletes’ “Re-orientation” to Exercise (2022) Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 4, art. no. 901308 DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2022.901308 Abstract One aspect of sports retirement that has been overlooked until recently is the manner in which retired athletes relate to, and seek to …
Allen, Ansgar, and Sarah Spencer. “Regimes of Motherhood: Social Class, the Word Gap and the Optimisation of Mothers’ Talk.” The Sociological Review, (June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221104378. Abstract The role of working class mothers’ talk in explaining their child’s ‘impoverished’ language development and the resulting ‘word gap’ between social classes is hotly debated. Academic research in this …
CALL FOR PAPERS The twenty-first annual meeting of the Foucault Circle University of Missouri – Kansas City Kansas City, MO April 21-23, 2023 We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. In light of recent legal and political moves against abortion and …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Back in 2015, when I was doing the research for Foucault’s Last Decade, I tried to identify and contact the people who had been part of Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley. The famous photograph appeared in Didier Eribon’s biography, with Foucault in a cowboy hat, which was a gift from…
Châteauvert-Gagnon, B. ‘How dare she?!’: Parrhesiastic resistance and the logics of protection of/in international security (2022) Security Dialogue DOI: 10.1177/09670106221090830 Abstract Malalai Joya, Greta Thunberg, Idle No More leaders – what do these figures have in common? They each decided to act/speak out against the failures, lacks, exclusions, violence and injustices in the words and …
Dyakov, A.V. Michel Foucault and Antiquity: Between the philosophical historicism and the history of thought (2022) Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Filosofiia i Konfliktologiia, 38 (1), pp. 19-29. DOI: 10.21638/spbu17.2022.102 Article in Russian Abstract Michel Foucault was well known as an epistemologist, historicist, and historian of thought. His analyses of ancient culture are a crucial moment for …
Kikabhai, N. How educational systems respond to diversity, inclusion and social justice: Disability, power, discipline, territoriality and deterritorialization (2022) British Journal of Sociology DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12969 Abstract This paper presents a critical examination of a vexed issue relating to how educational systems respond to diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Whilst there are unique factors specific to …
Foucault and Praxis: On Genealogical Method and Abolition with Bernard Harcourt, Acid Horizon, Aug. 13, 2022 ABOUT THIS EPISODE Acid Horizon hosts Bernard Harcourt, a distinguished critical theorist, legal advocate, and prolific writer and editor. Bernard joins the cast to discuss the legacy of Foucault’s work, its emergence within its historical milieu, and the practical …
Christopher Blackwell, Reading While Incarcerated Saved Me. So Why Are Prisons Banning Books?, The New York Times, 17 August 2022 SHELTON, Wash. — During my first decade in prison, I busied myself with exercising and hanging out in the big yard. I hardly grew as a person, aside from developing muscles that I really used …
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