Foucault News

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

Jeff Justice, Biopolitics of Disasters: Hurricane Irma and Climate Change. Green European Journal, 3 November 2017 Recent hurricanes and natural disasters give rise to the question of how countries and people can recover and where they should get support from. French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics can reshape how to view human-aided …

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Tebkew, M., Atinkut, H.B. Impact of forest decentralization on sustainable forest management and livelihoods in East Africa (2022) Trees, Forests and People, 10, art. no. 100346 DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100346 Abstract The paper examines how forest decentralization affects forest management and sustainable livelihoods in East Africa. For this review, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania were chosen as …

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Diego Andreucci, Christos Zografos, Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change, Political Geography, Volume 92, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102512. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629821001724) Abstract: In this article, we argue that othering is central to the government of climate change. Critically engaging with Foucault’s ideas on biopolitics and racism, we elaborate a conceptual perspective for analysing …

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Luke, T.W. Investment and Rapid Climate Change as Biopolitics: Foucault and Governance of the Self and Others through ESG. Sustainability 2022, 14, 14974. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214974 Abstract: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies today are an established practice in personal and public finance. They also provide crucial benchmarks for corporate social responsibility policy in gauging the …

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Gilberto Conde, Fluid Modernity. The Politics of Water in the Middle East, Routledge, 2023 Book Description Fluid Modernity offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. Drawing upon conceptions of power by Foucault and Agamben, it examines how water, …

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Adam Kirsch, Why more people want human extinction: climate change, an AI ‘singularity’, and merging with a cosmic flow of data, South China Morning Post Magazine, 29 Jan 2023 Man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.” With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel …

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Biopolitique plurielle (II) sous la direction d’Andrea ANGELINI, Orazio IRRERA, Benedetta PIAZZESI Vendredi 12h-15h | Bâtiment A, Salle A028 Séminaire organisé dans le cadre des activités pédagogiques et de recherche du Département de Philosophie de l’Université de Paris 8, du LLCP (EA, 4008), du séminaire permanent « Foucault à Paris 8 ». Activité soutenue par …

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Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball (2022) Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education, Journal of Education Policy, Published online: 15 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2022.2157890 ABSTRACT This paper develops previous work in which we deployed a form of Foucauldian critique to clear a space in which it might be …

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CRISIS AND CRITIQUE Volume 9 / Issue 2, 25-11-2022 Edited by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda Open access Introduction: Is Politics Possible Today? by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza Table of Contents Politics Today: Thirteen Theses and Commentaries by Alain Badiou Rethinking Politics and Freedom in Anthropocene by Wendy Brown Technique as Politics by Andrea …

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