Foucault News

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

Antonio Pele (2018) Human Dignity in the Renaissance? Dignitas Hominis and “Spiritual counter-subjectivity”: a Foucauldian Approach. Philosophy & Social Criticism https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453718814874 Abstract: The historical making of human dignity is usually understood either as a result of a progressive history of the recognition of the human being’s worthiness or as an upward equalization of ranks. The present …

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Tarasova, E. (Non-) Alternative energy transitions: Examining neoliberal rationality in official nuclear energy discourses of Russia and Poland (2018) Energy Research and Social Science, 41, pp. 128-135. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.008 Abstract Neoliberal trends are a part of the sociopolitical contexts that shape present-day energy transitions. Economic arguments extensively used in nuclear energy discourses regarding the Nuclear …

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Kaveh Dastooreh (2018) Ethical imagination and the new possibilities of subjectivity: a global perspective on the culture of the self and its evolution in Kurdistan, Reflective Practice DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2018.1539663 ABSTRACT This paper is written with the hope of not only presenting an ethics that could speak to some of our contemporary subjective and ethical issues …

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Hunkin, E. If not quality, then what? The discursive risks in early childhood quality reform (2018) Discourse, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2018.1453780 Abstract This paper reports on the findings of a genealogical study and argues that the global discourse of quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is based on a number …

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El discurso intercultural como Campo de Disputa: ‘Terrorismo Mapuche’ Y Dispositivo Pedagógico De Etnicidad Autor: LEPE-CARRION, Patricio , Revista Historia y Justicia ISSN 0719-4153 revista.historiayjusticia.org N°11 – Santiago de Chile, octubre 2018, p. 315-347 Available academia.edu Palabras clave: Chile, educación, interculturalidad, mapuche, Post-dictadura, terrorismo En postdictadura, un nuevo escenario ha puesto en funcionamiento un discurso …

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Palacios, C. Freedom can also be productive: the historical inversions of ‘the conduct of conduct’ (2018) Journal of Political Power, 11 (2), pp. 252-272. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2018.1478641 Abstract The Foucauldian conception of power as ‘productive’ has left us so far with a residual conception of freedom. The article examines a number of historical cases in which …

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Lilja, M., Vinthagen, S. Dispersed resistance: unpacking the spectrum and properties of glaring and everyday resistance (2018) Journal of Political Power, 11 (2), pp. 211-229. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2018.1478642 Abstract Revisiting James C. Scott’s classification of forms of resistance, this paper argues that (hidden, subtle) everyday resistance is only one of many types of small-scale or individual …

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Sean R. Roberts,The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs (2018) Critical Asian Studies, 50 (2), pp. 232-258. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111 Abstract This article provides an overview of People’s Republic of China (PRC) counter-terrorism policies targeting Uyghurs since 2001 when the state first asserted that it faced a terrorist threat from this …

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Kannisto, P. Travelling like locals: Market resistance in long-term travel (2018) Tourism Management, 67, pp. 297-306. DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2018.02.009 Abstract Market resistance has been studied in relation to ecological and ethical tourism, while lifestyle-based resistance has received less attention. This study examines a group of long-term travellers, the ‘global nomads’ who avoid the tourism industry by …

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Mayes, E. Student voice in an age of ‘security’? (2018) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-18. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2018.1455721 Abstract As student voice has become popularised as a school reform strategy, it has been critiqued as another instrumental strategy that schools may use to govern students’ speech, bodies and subjectivities. What necessitates further …

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