Foucault News

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

Singh, N.M. The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects: Rethinking environmentality in Odisha, India (2013) Geoforum https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.01.010 Abstract How do humans come to care for their environment and what turns them into conservationists are central questions in environmental politics. Recent scholars have turned to Foucault’s ideas of “governmentality” to understand …

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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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