Foucault News

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

Clapham, A., Vickers, R. Neither a borrower nor a lender be: exploring ‘teaching for mastery’ policy borrowing (2018) Oxford Review of Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2018.1450745 Abstract Mathematics education is a high-stakes indicator of success in ‘über’ performative systems. The search to address England’s mathematics underperformance resulted in cross-national attraction toward, and …

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Waller, C. ‘Darker than the Dungeon’: Music, Ambivalence, and the Carceral Subject (2018) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 31 (2), pp. 275-299. DOI: 10.1007/s11196-018-9558-9 Abstract Music’s sanctioned role in the day-to-day running of the ‘late-modern’ prison is to ensure wellbeing and compliance of prisoners, with most regimes facilitating access to music through the …

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Mameni, S. What are the Iranians wishing for? Queer transnational solidarity in revolutionary Iran (2018) Signs, 43 (4), pp. 955-978. DOI: 10.1086/696628 Abstract This article explores the role of desire in Iran’s revolutionary movement. In a series of essays on the 1979 revolution, Michel Foucault asked, “What are the Iranians dreaming about?” This article takes …

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Marcela Renée Becerra Batán, Epistemología histórica y técnicas de sí. El psicoanálisis del conocimiento objetivo y la vigilancia epistemológica (Bachelard) y las técnicas de sí (Foucault), Epistemología e Historia de la Ciencia, ISSN 2525-1198, 2 (2), 2018. Open access RESUMEN Este trabajo se sitúa en el marco de una indagación acerca del estilo de la …

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Stehr, N., Adolf, M.T. Knowledge/Power/Resistance (2018) Society, 55 (2), pp. 193-198. DOI: 10.1007/s12115-018-0232-3 Abstract Francis Bacon’s famous metaphor that knowledge is power has been the intellectual springboard for many scholars to offer misleading observations about the inordinate authority and power of knowledge. Among the important implications that Bacon derives from his metaphor is the assertion …

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Kawasaka, K. Contradictory Discourses on Sexual Normality and National Identity in Japanese Modernity (2018) Sexuality and Culture, 22 (2), pp. 593-613. DOI: 10.1007/s12119-017-9485-z Abstract This paper aims to analyse the relationship between discourses of gender/sexuality and construction of national identity and normativity in Japan. Firstly, I will analyse discourses of two influential theorists of queer …

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Macedo, E. WADA and imperialism? A philosophical look into anti-doping and athletes as coloniser and colonised (2018) International Journal of Sport Policy, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2017.1383930 Abstract Post-colonial philosophical scholarship in the late 20th century advanced notions of exploitation and domination of the periphery post imperialistic control. Works by authors Peter Ekeh …

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Holligan, C. Exploring a taboo of cultural reproduction (2018) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39 (4), pp. 535-550. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2017.1367270 Abstract Cultural reproduction is rarely, if ever, theorised through clandestine practices of sexual offending by teachers in the gendered hierarchies of state schools. Drawing upon Freedom of Information requests and other official qualitative data …

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Hinchliffe, G. Epistemic freedom and education (2018) Ethics and Education, 13 (2), pp. 191-207. DOI: 10.1080/17449642.2018.1438150 Abstract First of all, I define the concept of epistemic freedom in the light of the changing nature of educational practice that prioritise over-prescriptive conceptions of learning. I defend the ‘reality’ of this freedom against possible determinist-related criticisms. I …

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Pembroke, S. Foucault and Industrial Schools in Ireland: Subtly Disciplining or Dominating through Brutality? (2018) Sociology, . Article in Press. DOI: 10.1177/0038038518763490 Abstract Industrial Schools run by Catholic Religious Orders in Ireland were a form of institutionalised child-welfare that incarcerated children in need for most of the 20th century. During the last decade, Industrial Schools …

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