Foucault News

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

Sunendar, D., Adriany, V. ‘It’s all about the product’: doing research in neoliberal times in Indonesian higher education (2023) Globalisation, Societies and Education DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2023.2212438 Abstract This article explores Indonesian academics’ experiences in navigating the research process amidst the pressure of neoliberal ideology in higher education institutions in the country. Using Foucault’s concept of governmentality, …

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Critical global citizenship: Foucault as a complexity thinker, social justice and the challenges of higher education in the era of neo-liberal globalization – A conversation with Mark Olssen, Authors: Emiliano Bosio, Mark Olssen Citizenship Teaching & Learning, Volume 18, Issue Philosophical, Ethical and Pedagogical Visions of Global Citizenship Education: Critical Perspectives from International Educators, Jun …

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Jasper Friedrich & Rachel Shanks (2023) ‘The prison of the body’: school uniforms between discipline and governmentality, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 44:1, 16-29. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2021.1931813 ABSTRACT This article asks what uniform practices in schools can tell us about how power functions through a comprehensive analysis of the uniform policies of all …

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Arar, K., Örücü, D. (2022). A Foucauldian Analysis of Culturally Relevant Educational Leadership for Refugees as Newcomers. 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_114 Abstract This chapter aims to deconstruct culturally relevant leadership (CRL) and social justice leadership (SJL) frameworks in newcomers’ education using the …

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Bronwen M.A. Jones, Stephen J. Ball (eds), Neoliberalism and Education, Routledge, 2023. Forthcoming The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and at the same time transforms how we are made up as educational subjects. It rearticulates what it means …

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Min Lin & Weili Zhao (2023) Untangling the making and governing of Hong Kong teachers through neoliberal, Confucian, and affective technologies: with and beyond Foucault, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2023.2174074 ABSTRACT This paper investigates the making and governing of Hong Kong teachers along and beyond a Foucauldian governmentality lens, untangling how the three …

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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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Goodley, C., Perryman, J. Beyond the ‘terrors of performativity’: dichotomies, identities and escaping the panopticon (2022) London Review of Education, 20 (1), art. no. 29 DOI: 10.14324/LRE.20.1.29 Abstract This article examines the influence of Stephen Ball’s work through the eyes of two former teachers turned academics who met through a mutual interest in his paper, …

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Strausz, Erzsébet (2022) Writing with Foucault: openings to transformational knowledge practices in and beyond the classroom, Critical Studies on Security DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2022.2134698 ABSTRACT This article engages questions of authority and authorship in the discipline and the IR classroom, driven by a search for affirmative horizons within critical scholarship and academic practice. Prompted by a series …

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Jubas, K. More than a Confessional Mo(ve)ment? #MeToo’s Pedagogical Tensions (2022) Adult Education Quarterly DOI: 10.1177/07417136221134782 Abstract In this article, I explore the pedagogical function of #MeToo, highlighting what it might teach about gender-based mistreatment and mainstreamed feminism. I begin by reviewing linkages between adult education and social movements, then trace the development of #MeToo, …

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