Foucault News

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

Call for Abstracts Handbook Title: Foucault and Education: Exploring Perspectives and Practices Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PDF of call for abstracts We are delighted to announce a call for abstracts for contributions to an upcoming volume titled “Foucault and Education: Exploring Perspectives and Practices,” to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This handbook aims to delve into …

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Jacobs, K., Malpas, J. Politics, Sociology, and the “Inevitability” of Failure Routledge International Handbook of Failure, Edited By Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Anna Horolets, Paweł Kubicki, Routledge, (2023) pp. 423-432. DOI: 10.4324/9780429355950-36 Abstract The chapter begins by pointing out the contribution of sociological interpretations that focus on failure’s discursive and normative effects; for example, as …

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Corcoran, M. ‘Leave Something Witchy’: Evolving Representations of Cults and New Religious Movements in Folk Horror (2023) in Robert Edgar, Wayne Johnson (eds) The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror, Routledge, 2023 pp. 65-76. DOI: 10.4324/9781003191292-8 Abstract The Folk Horror sub-genre, as it is popularly understood, emerged alongside heightened public and media fascination with cults. In …

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Karastergiou, A. AI and Madness (2023) In David Goodman, Matthew Clemente (eds) The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology, Routledge, 2023, pp. 281-292. DOI: 10.4324/9781003195849-28 Abstract Are the concepts of “madness” and “normality” applicable to modern AI technologies? In this chapter, we will endeavor on a journey to explore how Foucault’s conception of …

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Michael, R., Donnar, G. Crosshatch Fantasy: Unsettling Portals, Crisis Heterotopias, and Comings-of-Age (2023) in Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy, Palgrave, 2023, pp. 71-83. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26397-2_6 Abstract This chapter introduces an intriguing concept of ‘crosshatch’ fantasy: another world that is superimposed upon consensus reality. Using Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia …

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Clegg, Stewart, and Johan Ninan. “Foucault’s governmentality and the issue of project collaboration”. In Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing, Edited by Graham Winch, Maude Brunet and Dongping Cao (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023) https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880283.00020 Abstract The concept of governmentality has proven useful to analyse how the reflexive management of people within and without …

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Lemm, Vanessa, and Miguel Vatter. “Chapter 4: Michel Foucault’s perspective on biopolitics”. In Handbook of Biology and Politics, (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) accessed Jul 26, 2023, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783476275.00012 Abstract Foucault’s discussion of biopolitics, a term that he began using in the mid-1970s, is closely related to his new theories of power, which have since …

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Devi Akella, Looking beyond the gaze. A reflective faculty learning experience In Anteliz, E. A., Mulligan, D. L., & Danaher, P. A. Eds. The Routledge international handbook of autoethnography in educational research, Routledge, 2023 Extract from introduction Numerous articles emphasising the need for international cultural immersion and community engagement experiences which encourage students to be …

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Mattioni, F.C., Rocha, C.M.F. (2023). Health Promotion in Primary Care: Michel Foucault’s Genealogy to Analyse Changes in Practices. In: Jourdan, D., Potvin, L. (eds) Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 3. Springer, Cham. pp. 69-81. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20401-2_7 Abstract This chapter aimed to present the methodological path of research that attempted to analyse Health Promotion …

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