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

Luca Paltrinieri, « « Nombre des hommes » et « populatio » à la fin de la Renaissance : notes sur la généalogie des savoirs démographiques », Astérion [En ligne], 31 | 2024, mis en ligne le 30 janvier 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/asterion/11452 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/138qv Open access Résumé Dans un passage de ses …

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materiali foucaultiani volume XI, numero 21-22 (gennaio-dicembre 2022) Published January 2025 SOMMARIO L’impulsion Nietzsche. sous la direction de Michèle Cohen-Halimi et Orazio Irrera Introduction. « L’impulsion Nietzsche » chez Michel Foucault (pp. 5-10) Michèle Cohen-Halimi et Orazio Irrera Repenser l’espace, pluraliser le temps. La pensée de Nietzsche entre Foucault et l’École des Annales (pp. 11-46) …

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Gabriel Pochapski, Repenser l’espace, pluraliser le temps. La pensée de Nietzsche entre Foucault et l’École des Annales materiali foucaultiani, a. XI, n. 21-22, gennaio-dicembre 2022, pp. 11-46. Issue released in January 2025. Abstract Rethinking space, pluralizing time. Nietzsche’s Thought Between Foucault and the École des Annales This article aims to examine the uses of Nietzsche’s …

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Moreno-Mulet, C., Valdivielso-Navarro, J., Miró-Bonet, M., Carrero-Planells, A., Gastaldo, D. Transgressive Acts: Michel Foucault’s Lessons on Resistance for Nurses (2025) Nursing Philosophy, 26 (1), art. no. e70008 DOI: 10.1111/nup.70008 Abstract In this paper, we bring together Foucault’s biography and oeuvre to explore key concepts that support the analysis of nurses’ acts of resistance. Foucault reflected …

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Hiba, B. If you don’t problematize it, you won’t see it, and you won’t understand it (2025) New Ideas in Psychology, 77, art. no. 101141 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101141 Abstract This paper critically redefines problematization as both a research method and a transformative approach to critical thinking, positioning it as a pivotal modus operandi that transcends the …

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Zaharijević, A., & Urošević, M. (2024). Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault. Philosophy & Social Criticism https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537241284544 Abstract The article scrutinizes Foucault’s articulations of resistance, arguing against the entrenched understanding that resistance in Foucault is necessarily negative, or impossible. We concentrate on a specific period of his work, situated between the disciplinary phase and the beginning …

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Hickman, Robin, Ping Lu, and André Botermans. . “The Discourse of Cycling in Houten.” Journal of Urban Design, January 2025, 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2024.2441133 ABSTRACT This paper aims to understand the critical factors behind the development of contemporary cycling practice in Houten, the Netherlands. Eighteen in-depth interviews, with transport and urban planning experts and residents, are …

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Delf Rothe, Christine Hentschel, Ursula Schröder, Recomposing the climate-security nexus: A conceptual introduction, Geoforum, Volume 159, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104195 Abstract: What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change? This conceptual introduction to the special issue “Critical Climate Security” develops a new theoretical approach to studying the complex linkages between climate change, security, and conflict. …

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Dossier: Foucault, 40 años después: Foucault desde el Sur Global (No. 41) EN EL MARCO DEL WORLD CONGRESS: FOUCAULT 40 YEARS AFTER Dossier: Foucault desde el Sur Global (No. 41) Dossier: Foucault from the Global South (No. 41) Coordinadores / Coordinators: Hugo David Tavera Villegas Bertha Bermúdez Tapia FECHA LÍMITE DE ENVÍO: 17 DE FEBRERO …

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Antti Saari & Jan Varpanen, Critical ambiguities – ambiguities of critique: Technologies of the self in entrepreneurial activism, Ephemera. Theory and Politics in Organization, 2024 Open access Keywords critical theories, social movements, power, entrepreneurial activism, Foucault, subjectivity Theory U, Ambiguity Extract from introduction In Foucauldian organization studies, a shift of emphasis has taken place from …

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