Foucault News

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

A review by Thosaeng Chaochuti which appears on the New Mandala blog draws attention to a chapter on the uptake of Foucault in Thailand. Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson, eds., The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand, with a foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty. Hong Kong and Ithaca: Hong …

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Iver B. Neumann and Ole Jacob Sending, Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality, Rationality. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2010 About the Book What does globalization mean for the principle of state sovereignty and for the power and functioning of states? Whereas realists assert the continued importance of states, constructivists contend that various political entities …

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Book published in 2013 Omar Moufakkir, Yvette Reisinger, The host gaze in global tourism Most tourism theories have been developed from the tourists’ perspective, including the seminal work by John Urry, ‘The Tourist Gaze’, which is now a classic text. The Host Gaze in Global Tourism is a unique book for researchers and students as …

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