Tiancheng Xia, & Yuanjing Wu (2026). A Genealogical Critique of Medicalization: From Conrad Back to Foucault. Acta Bioethica, 32(2), 193–205. https://actabioethica.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/84796 Abstract Foucault’s genealogy is widely applied in discussions of medicalization. Critics such as Conrad have adopted Foucault’s power-knowledge analysis as a crucial tool for critiquing it. However, these critiques often tend to view medicalization …
Jessamine Giese, Marie White and Megan Gibson. 2026. “Leading from Outside the ‘Hierarchical Box’: Enacting the Educational Leader Role in Early Childhood Teams” Education Sciences 16, no. 8: 1306. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16081306 Abstract Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is significantly shaped by policy and an enduring focus on quality. While policy governs service provision, it is …
Sam Binkley , Biopolitical Metaphor: Habitualized Embodiment between Discourse and Affect, Body & Society, 24(3), 2018, pp. 95-124. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X1876739 Abstract This article theorizes the biopolitical production of embodiment through a consideration of biopolitical metaphor. It is argued that much recent theoretical work on biopower fails to provide an adequate account of embodiment, and particularly the …
Kampanart “Menn” Chaiyarat (2026). Democratic citizenship education under constraint: a critical phenomenological study of teacher agency and everyday resistance. Oxford Review of Education, 1–18. Published online: 27 Jul 2026 https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2026.2702439 ABSTRACT In contexts where democracy is politically constrained, how do teachers continue to teach democratic values without placing themselves or their students at risk? Drawing …
Sam Binkley, (2026). The double life of the dangerous object: phobogenecity from doctrinal to relational racism. Culture, Theory and Critique, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2026.2683961 ABSTRACT Foucault’s genealogy of race traces the racial to the normalising functions of the biopolitical state. Thus conceived, racism is deeply invested in the doctrinal practices of racial government, while little attention is …
Sarah Wieners, Eva Bulgrin; Susanne Maria Weber, “Re-imagining mentoring programs from privilege to equality – intervening in academic gaze orders”. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 5 June 2026 https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-01-2025-0047 Abstract Purpose This conceptual article discusses academic mentoring programs from a Foucauldian power-knowledge analysis. How is mentoring entangled in the rationalities of the privileging …
Changyuan Chen, The figures of the cogito: Foucault, Derrida and the possibility of transcendental phenomenology. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, First published: 05 June 2026 https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.70049 Abstract This article examines the early Foucault as a reader of Husserl, a frequently overlooked dimension of his thought that nonetheless paved the way for the Foucault we recognize …
Rachael S. Burke, Chrissie Keepa, Silence in the Shadows: Reflections on Student Participation in Research on Te Reo Māori and Te Tiriti Commitments in Aotearoa New Zealand, Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 2026, 21, e70033. https://doi.org/10.1002/kot2.70033 Abstract This article offers a critical and reflexive analysis of a research process conducted at a …
Tamara J. Young, Rochelle Einboden 2026. Power, Resistance, and Family Absence During Resuscitation: A Foucauldian Analysis. Nursing Inquiry 32: e70111. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.70111 ABSTRACT Although family presence during resuscitation demonstrates benefits such as facilitating the grieving process through fostering a sense of closeness, providing reassurance that all efforts were made, and offering an opportunity for a final …
Jade G Roque and Marcos C Alvarez, Breaking the pendulum with Michel Foucault: Modern punishment beyond docile bodies, Punishment and Society, Published online 4 May 2026 https://doi.org/10.1177/146247452614465 Abstract Contemporary penal change is often explained as an institutionally mediated outcome of political, cultural, and social transformations that vacillate between affinity for retributive and rehabilitative penal measures. …
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