Foucault News

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

Määttä, S.K. Discourse and ideology in French thought until Foucault and Pecheux. In Määttä, Simo K. and Hall, Marika K. Mapping Ideology in Discourse Studies. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513602 DOI: 10.1515/9781501513602-002 Abstract Since many, if not most, of the early sources of critical approaches to discourse and ideology come from France, the …

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Leib, R.S. Goffman and Foucault: Framing the micro-physics of power (2022) The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies Edited By Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Greg Smithpp, Routledge, 349-360. DOI: 10.4324/9781003160861-33 Abstract The works of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault are theoretically and practically complementary in many ways. First, I review areas of overlap between Goffman and …

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Deirdre McGowan, Foucault and the Limits of Identity Rights In Marshall, J. (Ed.). Personal identity and the European court of human rights. Routledge (2022). Introduction […] Foucault does not deny the materiality of human existence, but he does challenge the notion that it has a fixed essence to which specific identities or characteristics can be …

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Wright, L. Erin’s sons and decent daughters: The biopolitics of rural masculinities in Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn (1948) In Aida Rosende-Pérez, Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez (eds.) The Cultural Politics of In/Difference: Irish Texts and Contexts, Peter Lang (2022) pp. 28-47. Abstract In the years leading up to the foundation of the Irish Republic and the Irish Constitution …

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Jane Tynan, Chapter 11. Michel Foucault. Fashioning the Body Politic. In Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik (eds), Thinking through Fashion A Guide to Key Theorists, I.B. Tauris, 2016, pp. 184-199 (Bloomsbury Collections) Chapter DOI10.5040/9780755694785.ch-011 Introduction The French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault (1926–1984) has profoundly impacted disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. For Foucault, …

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Christensen, G. Ethical Reflections On Ethnographic Exposure Of Exclusion in PBL-Group Learning (2021) in Fox, A., Busher, H., & Capewell, C. (Eds.). (2021). Thinking Critically and Ethically About Research for Education: Engaging with Voice and Empowerment in International Contexts (1st ed.). Routledge., pp. 107-119. DOI: 10.4324/9781003094722-9 Abstract This chapter will address ethnographic exposure of exclusion …

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Géraldine Mossière (2022). Religious Conversions and New Spiritual Economies. In: Mossière, G. (eds) New Spiritualties and the Cultures of Well-being. In Book Series: Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06263-6_4 Abstract In this chapter, I transpose the concept of moral economies into the domain of contemporary spiritualities, building on …

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Ericsson, D. Space technologies and cultural organizations (2022) The Metamorphosis of Cultural and Creative Organizations: Exploring Change from a Spatial Perspective, Edited By Federica De Molli, Marilena Veccopp. 141-154. DOI: 10.4324/9781003134671-10 Abstract In this chapter the ongoing reconfigurations of the cultural and creative sectors, in which the dichotomy between producers and consumers is being repealed, …

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Dussel, I. What Might a Material Turn to Educational Histories Add to the History of Education? Proof-eating the Pudding (2021) In Van Ruyskensvelde, Sarah, Thyssen, Geert, Herman, Frederik, Van Gorp, Angelo and Verstraete, Pieter. (Eds) Folds of Past, Present and Future: Reconfiguring Contemporary Histories of Education, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. pp. 449-468. DOI: …

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Wu, B. Authenticity and wellbeing in neoliberal times: Imagining alternatives (2021) In Healthy Relationships in Higher Education: Promoting Wellbeing Across Academia, Edited by Narelle Lemon, Routledge, pp. 197-209. DOI: 10.4324/9781003144984-18 Abstract At the centre of the neoliberal endeavour is an idealised self for the governed – the entrepreneurial self. Although touted as free and autonomous, …

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