Foucault News

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

Orazio Irrera, “Toward a Postcolonial Genealogy of Environmental Subjectivities” A presentation in the series… “Foucault and the critique of our present: Reworking the Foucauldian tool-box” A workshop organized with the support of the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths and of mf / materiali foucaultiani February 21 , 5-7 pm (RHB) 141 Goldsmiths University of London …

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Olli Pyyhtinen, Sakari Tamminen, We have never been only human: Foucault and Latour on the question of the anthropos, Anthropological Theory, Vol. 11, No. 2. (1 June 2011), pp. 135-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499611407398 Abstract Today, the impact of the work of both Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour is increasingly evident in anthropology, most notably in the subfields …

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Michael L. Cepek, Foucault in the forest: Questioning environmentality in Amazonia, American Ethnologist, Volume 38, Issue 3, August 2011, pp 501–515. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01319.x ABSTRACT In this article, I analyze the encounter between the Field Museum of Natural History and Amazonian Ecuador’s Cofán people to question the concept of “environmentality”: the idea that environmentalist programs and movements …

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Georg Winkel, ‘Foucault in the forests—A review of the use of ‘Foucauldian’ concepts in forest policy analysis’, Forest Policy and Economics Volume 16, March 2012, Pages 81–92 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.009 doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.009 Abstract In this paper, a review is conducted on the use of the concepts of Michel Foucault in forest policy analysis. In doing so, three major …

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The Foucault Society, NYC 2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies Please join us for the first colloquium in our new series: Stephanie Clare, “Foucault, Geopower, and the Transformation of the Earth” Time: 3 March 2011· 19:00 – 21:30 Location CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY, USA Free and …

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Picard, E. Kezia (2010) A radical relational agency: Foucault, complexity theory and environmental resistances. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Page with link to pdf of thesis Abstract The aim of this thesis is to examine a radical relational agency, applied to contemporary environmental resistances, that incorporates both the thought of Michel Foucault and complexity theory. …

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