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

Ritts, M., Simlai, T., Gabrys, J. The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests (2024) Political Geography, 110, art. no. 103074 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103074 Abstract The rise of digital acoustic monitoring is having transformative effects within forest conservation geographies and practices. By featuring divergent acoustic signals (a gunshot, a bird call) …

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Goldhill, S. Beyond Michel Foucault, Beyond Peter Brown: What Did Early Christianity Destroy? (2024) Arethusa, 57 (2), pp. 193-225. DOI: 10.1353/are.2024.a934133 Abstract This article argues that the focus on sexuality and the body in early Christianity, prompted by the seminal work of Peter Brown and Michel Foucault, has obscured a truly major and profound shift …

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Foucault Studies Number 36: Special Issue: Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Special Issue: Foucault’s Legacy on Contemporary Thinking Introduction: Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) Valentina Antoniol, Stefano Marino On Foucault’s Legacy: Governmentality, Critique and Subjectivation as Conceptual Tools for Understanding Neoliberalism André …

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Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Movement. An Introduction, University of Minnesota Press, 2024 Foreword by Daniel W. Smith Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned when migration has always constituted civilization? To analyze and understand the depth …

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Echoes of Foucault, forty years after The Foucault Circle NL/BE is organizing a conference about interdisciplinary uses of Foucault’s work, with a focus on themes which Foucault did not think much about himself, but we do: decolonization, gender, climate change, etc. University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam Roeterseilandcampus 25-06-2024 Few philosophers have been such …

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Baxter, K.I. Cecily Shoots a Rhinoceros: Big Game Hunting in British Somaliland and the 1900 Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish in Africa (2023) Law and Literature DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2023.2289771 Abstract In 1900, seven European nations gathered in London to agree the Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish …

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Call for Papers for Special Issue “Colors in Econarratives about the Human and More-than-Human World“, Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies Guest Editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki Colors are not only visual stimuli, but also social constructs that play a pivotal role in our perception, psychology, behavior and communication. Colors also evoke …

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CFP: Special Issue: Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene, Lagoonscapes The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities Guest editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Both life and death are natural states of humans and non-humans, coexisting and at …

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Eva Joyce, Rewilding tourism in the news: Power/knowledge and the Irish and UK news media discourses, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 104, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103718. Abstract: This study investigates how complex power relations shape the knowledge about rewilding tourism produced by the news media in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. A multi-level Foucauldian …

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Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball (04 Jan 2024): Without School: Education as Common(ing) Activities in Local Social Infrastructures – An Escape from Extinction Ethics, British Journal of Educational Studies DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2023.2298776 ABSTRACT In this third paper in a series of four, we explore some ways of doing education differently. An education that moves beyond …

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