Foucault News

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

Frost, T. The dispositif between Foucault and Agamben (2019) Law, Culture and the Humanities, 15 (1), pp. 151-171. DOI: 10.1177/1743872115571697 Abstract This article interrogates the specter of resistance in the writings of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, arguing they open up divergent ways of theorizing resistance to power. This article’s focus is on both philosophers’ …

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Vicente L. Rafael (2019), The Sovereign Trickster, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 78, No. 1 (February) 2019: 141–166. doi:10.1017/S0021911818002656 Abstract In our current moment, authoritarian figures loom large. One of them is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. He seems to embody two notions of sovereignty. One is related to law, the other to norms: on …

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Susan L. Johnson, Workplace bullying, biased behaviours and performance review in the nursing profession: A qualitative study (2019) Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28 (9-10), pp. 1528-1537. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14758 Abstract Aims and objectives: To explore staff nurses’ discourses of workplace bullying, to critically examine how these discourses affect their responses to bullying. Background: Workplace bullying has been …

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Marlon Salomon, “Eso no es un libro de historia”: Michel Foucault y la publicación de documentos de archivos, Topoi (Rio de Janeiro). vol.20 no.40 Rio de Janeiro Jan./Apr. 2019 DOI: 10.1590/2237-101×020040011 Open access RESUMO Entre 1973 e 1982, Michel Foucault dedicou-se à publicação de documentos de arquivo. Em 1973, publicou o memorial de Rivière; em …

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Petri, O. Discipline and Discretionary Power in Policing Homosexuality in Late Imperial St. Petersburg (2019) Journal of Homosexuality, 66 (7), pp. 937-969. DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2018.1485302 Abstract This article explores queer sexual policing in late Imperial St. Petersburg (c.1900–1917). The focus is on the street-level constables who bore the principal responsibility for policing male homosexual offenses in …

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Special Issue: Biopolítica, segurización y gubernamentalidad, Revista Mexicana De Análisis Político Y Administración Pública, Vol. 7, núm. 2 (2018) Open access Tabla de contenidos Índice Índice PDF 1-2 Presentación Presentación PDF José de Jesús Ramírez Macias, Cuauhtémoc N. Hernández Martínez 3-10 Autor invitado La frontera incorporada: espacio, cuerpo y seguridad PDF Ignacio Mendiola Gonzalo 13-32 …

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M. Habib Qazi, Saeeda Shah, Discursive construction of Pakistan’s national identity through curriculum textbook discourses in a Pakistani school in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (2019) British Educational Research Journal, 45 (2), pp. 275-297. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3496 Abstract This study investigates Pakistan’s secondary school children’s constructions of their national identity in a Pakistani school in Dubai by …

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Behrendt, S. This Is Not an Improvisation: Letitia Landon and the Slipperiness of Taxonomy (2019) European Legacy, 24 (3-4), pp. 283-300. DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2018.1562667 Abstract Writing in 2007, in The Wordsworth Circle, Jeffrey Robinson remarked on the “ephemerality” of improvisational poetry, its fundamental resistance to being “preserved.” Printed poetry is typically regarded as “fixed” and static: …

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Mitchell Dean, What is Economic Theology? A New Governmental-Political Paradigm? (2019) Theory, Culture and Society, 36 (3), pp. 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418787622 Abstract Countering claims of its impossibility, this paper argues for economic theology as an intelligible figure of contemporary political rationality and organization, and a distinctive analytical strategy in relation to forms of liberal and neoliberal …

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Clare Butler, Working the ‘wise’ in speech and language therapy: Evidence-based practice, biopolitics and ‘pastoral labour’ (2019) Social Science and Medicine, 230, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.038 Abstract This paper examines how power and knowledge are involved in the workings of speech and language therapy and in the work of speech and language therapists (SLTs). The paper …

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