Foucault News

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

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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Urošević, Milan. 2024. “Therapy culture and the production of subjectivity in neoliberalism.” Philosophy and Society https://doi.org/10.2298/FID240220005U ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between neoliberalism and the phenomena of “therapy culture”. We define therapy culture as a consequence of the spread of ideas, discourses, and practices from psychology and psychotherapy into various realms of society. Previous …

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Bufkin, S. The hunger strike as a biopolitical technology: re-reading the 1981 Irish republican prison protest (2024) Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2024.2405584 Abstract This article uses the case of the 1981 Irish republican prison protest to show that indefinite hunger strikes can force Euromodern states to the negotiating table by undercutting their commitment to good government. …

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Forlenza, R., Thomassen, B. Christian democracy as political spirituality: transcendence as transformation—Italian politics, 1942–1953 (2024) Politics and Religion DOI: 10.1017/S1755048324000063 Abstract This article deals with the transformation of Catholic politics in Italy between 1942 and 1945 and the emergence of Christian Democracy as the dominant political party in the postwar years. It analyzes how Catholic …

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