Foucault News

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

Asiyanbi, A.P., Ogar, E., Akintoye, O.A. Complexities and surprises in local resistance to neoliberal conservation: Multiple environmentalities, technologies of the self and the poststructural geography of local engagement with REDD+ (2019) Political Geography, 69, pp. 128-138. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.12.008 Abstract Actual local engagement with neoliberal conservation is remarkably complex and dynamic. This article advances a poststructural …

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Siyambalapitiya, J., Zhang, X., Liu, X. Is governmentality the missing link for greening the economic growth? (2018) Sustainability (Switzerland), 10 (11), art. no. 4204. DOI: 10.3390/su10114204 open access Abstract The new concept of “green growth” appears to be an economic growth model, which balances environment sustainability and fostering of economic growth. Yet, much of the …

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Nieuwenhuis, M. Atmospheric governance: Gassing as law for the protection and killing of life (2018) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36 (1), pp. 78-95. DOI: 10.1177/0263775817729378 Abstract Breathing is the activity which all forms of animated life share in common. The breath has been symbolised across cultures as the meaning of life itself. …

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Erol, A.E. Queer contestation of neoliberal and heteronormative moral geographies during #occupygezi (2018) Sexualities, 21 (3), pp. 428-445. DOI: 10.1177/1363460717699768 Abstract During the summer of 2013, Turkey witnessed the largest protest movement in the history of the republic. The protests began with environmentalist concerns to save a public park in central Istanbul, Gezi Park, from …

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Teresa Lloro-Bidart, Neoliberal and disciplinary environmentality and ‘sustainable seafood’ consumption: storying environmentally responsible action (2017) Environmental Education Research, 23 (8), pp. 1182-1199. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2015.1105198 Abstract This article invokes a neoliberal and disciplinary governmentality lens in a political ecology of education framework to analyze educational programming at Long Beach, California’s Aquarium of the Pacific. I begin by …

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Jen Bagelman, Sarah Marie Wiebe, Intimacies of global toxins: Exposure & resistance in ‘Chemical Valley’(2017) Political Geography, 60, pp. 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.04.007 Abstract This paper examines the geopolitics of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation’s reserve, situated in a toxic petrochemical complex known as Canada’s ‘Chemical Valley.’ While this reserve holds the perilous title of worst air-pollution in …

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Lloro-Bidart, T., Semenko, K. Toward a feminist ethic of self-care for environmental educators (2017) Journal of Environmental Education, 48 (1), pp. 18-25. DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2016.1249324 Abstract Feminist theory and philosophy have examined how dominant ideologies oppress women, nonhuman animals, and the environment. Feminist scholars also have begun to discuss how neoliberalism problematically re-inscribes women as the …

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Amelia Melbourne-Hayward, Temporary environments | Architecture Now, 22 August 2016 Young New Zealand artist Jillian Whitmore explores the intersection between art and architecture with her translucent watercolours. Whitmore will be exhibiting a solo exhibition titled Juncture at the Fine Arts Whanganui Gallery, opening Friday 26 August 2016. Here, she speaks with Amelia Melbourne-Hayward about her …

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Dolly Jørgensen, Rethinking rewilding (2015) Geoforum, 65, pp. 482-488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.016 Abstract The term ‘rewilding’ sounds as if it should have a straightforward meaning ‘to make wild again’. But in truth the term has a complex history and a host of meanings have been ascribed to it. Rewilding as a specific scientific term has its beginnings …

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Paul Bruce Mcilvenny, Julia Zhukova Klausen, Laura Bang Lindegaard, (Eds.) (2016). Studies of Discourse and Governmentality: New Perspectives and Methods. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. This volume brings together analyses of governmentality from different angles in order to explore the multiple forms, practices, modes, programmes and rationalities of the ‘conduct of conduct’ today. Following the publication of …

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