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

Foucault Studies Number 26, June 2019 Table of Contents Editorial Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe PDF i-iv Articles Altering absence: From race to empire in readings of Foucault Claire Cosquer PDF 1-20 Governing Goods, Bodies and Minds: The Biopolitics of Spain during the Francoism (1939-1959) Salvador Cayuela PDF 21-41 How Parrhesia Works through Art The Elusive Role …

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Sidorova, M., Nazarov, D., Vakhrushina, M. The Enlightenment as determinant of accounting change: The case of royal estate bookkeeping during the reign of Catherine II (2019) Accounting History, 24 (2), pp. 185-211. DOI: 10.1177/1032373218814269 Abstract Foucault studied the change in the governmental practices of European countries under the influence of Enlightenment. The transition from intuitive …

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Joshua S. Hanan, Subjects of Technology: An Auto-Archeology of Attention Deficit Disorder in Neoliberal Time(s) (2019) Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, 19 (2), pp. 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708618807264 Abstract This essay (re)presents my own experiences living with attention deficit disorder (ADD) as a child and adult to provide a radically historical, contextual, and critical autoethnographic conceptualization of …

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Sam Sellar and Lew Zipin, Conjuring optimism in dark times: Education, affect and human capital (2019) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (6), pp. 572-586. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1485566 Abstract This paper analyses how the discursive construction, valuation and subjective experience of human capital is evolving in parallel with crises of capital as a world-system. Ideology critique provides tools …

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Stephen J Ball (2019). A horizon of freedom: Using Foucault to think differently about education and learning. Power and Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757743819838289 Abstract Building on the work of others, this article sketches out what a Foucauldian ‘education’ might look like in practice, considers some of the challenges, paradoxes and (im)possibilities with which such an ‘education’ would face …

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Emerson Maione, Thiago Rodrigues, Genealogia e Agonismo: uma analítica do poder na Justiça de Transição, Carta Internacional. Revista da Associação Brasileira de Relações Internacionaisv, 14 n. 1 (2019) https://doi.org/10.21530/ci.v14n1.2019.821 Resumo Este artigo baseia-se em sugestões teórico-metodológicas de Michel Foucault. Em especial,focaremos a analítica das relações de poder/saber, a genealogia, o agonismo, e as visõesdesse autor …

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LaMothe, R. Pebbles in the Shoe: Acts of Compassion as Subversion in a Market Society (2019) Pastoral Psychology, 68 (3), pp. 285-301. DOI: 10.1007/s11089-018-0833-1 Abstract This article considers how compassion can be subversive to political-economic orders, whether these orders are found in church or society. Compassion is explained in terms of John Macmurray’s and Alex …

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Son, K.-M. The making of the neoliberal subject: Response to Whyte (2019) Political Theory, 47 (2), pp. 185-193. DOI: 10.1177/0090591718774572 Abstract In her recent essay, Jessica Whyte has challenged the tendency to repurpose Friedrich Hayek’s thought for a progressive and participatory politics. Objecting to such thinkers as Michel Foucault and William Connolly who find inspiration …

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Hildegunn Sundal, Karin Anna Petersen & Jeanne Boge, Exclusion and inclusion of parents of hospitalized children in Norway in the period 1877–2017 (2019) BMC Nursing, 18 (1), art. no. 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-019-0330-6 Abstract Background: Today, Norwegian parents have the right to stay with their children when they are in hospital. This right is relatively new. The …

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Rowe, E., Lubienski, C., Skourdoumbis, A., Gerrard, J., Hursh, D. Templates, typologies and typifications: neoliberalism as keyword (2019) Discourse, 40 (2), pp. 150-161. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2019.1569875 Abstract Neoliberalism as a concept, ideology, or theoretical lens has emerged in the last couple of decades as a monolithic presence in education research, and the social sciences more broadly. …

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