Foucault News

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

Two Decades of Climate Governmentality Studies Introduction Florian Steig, Eva Lövbrand, Angela Oels, Jonathan Barnes, Diana Eriksson Lagerqvist, Marie Fischer, Jennifer Gabrys, Aarti Gupta, Maarten Hajer, Phoebe Hamilton Jones, Maria Jernnäs, Cecilia Oliveira, Jeroen Oomen, Johannes Stripple, The Show Must Go On? Revisiting the Script of International Climate Cooperation Ten Years After Paris. Global Environmental …

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Lala Hajibayova, Seungmin Lee, Authorship in the age of artificial intelligence, Journal of Documentation, Volume 81, Issues 5–6, 2025, pp. 1401-1414. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2025-0109. Abstract: Purpose In this paper, the evolving boundaries between human- and machine-generated content are examined through the lens of Foucault’s (2002) conceptualizations of authorship and associated ethical considerations in the interest of ensuring quality …

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Denise Mifsud, Paul Campbell and Richard Niesche (2026). School leadership and artificial intelligence: A framework for critical and reflexive engagement and enactment. Management in Education, First published online August 18, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1177/08920206261475462 Abstract Recent advances in digital technologies and generative artificial intelligence are creating significant challenges for education systems and school leaders around the world. …

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Michael Uebel & Bilal Hamamra, Authorship After Generative AI: Distributed Creativity and Relational Responsibility. Philosophy & Technology, 39, 152 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01170-w Abstract Generative AI exposes the historical fragility of Romantic myths of the sovereign, self-transparent writer without inaugurating a crisis of authorship itself. Tracing a genealogy from symbolic AI to large language models, we show …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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