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

Aris Escarcena, J.P. Expulsions: The Construction of a Hostile Environment in Calais (2019) European Journal of Migration and Law, 21 (2), pp. 215-237. DOI: 10.1163/15718166-12340048 Abstract After the dismantling of “the great Jungle” of Calais, migrants have returned to settle in the territory of the region. In this article I analyse how different instances of …

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Ítala Nepomuceno, Hugo Affonso, James Angus Fraser, Maurício Torres, Counter-conducts and the green grab: Forest peoples’ resistance to industrial resource extraction in the Saracá-Taquera National Forest, Brazilian Amazonia (2019) Global Environmental Change, 56, pp. 124-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.04.004 Abstract This paper contributes to the theory of environmentality – the ‘conduct of conduct’ with regard to the environment …

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Keohane, K., Grace, V. What is ‘Alzheimer’s Disease’? The ‘Auguste D’ Case Re-opened, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Volume 43, Issue 2, 15 June 2019, Pages 336-359 DOI: 10.1007/s11013-019-09622-z Abstract What is Alzheimer’s: an organic, neuropathological psychiatric disease, caused by plaques and tangles in aging brains or/and an existential condition affecting the minds of aging persons …

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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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