Foucault News

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

Matthews, M. Counter hegemony in post-compulsory art and design and gallery education, through Sartre and Foucault (2018) Pedagogy, Culture and Society, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2018.1428220 Abstract Austerity politics in Britain are edging towards compressed learning and teaching identities, driven by competition for resources and normative standards. Policy changes since 2010 have impacted …

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Foucault Studies Number 24, June 2018: Foucauldian Spaces Table of Contents Editorial – Special Issue, Foucauldian Spaces Sverre Raffnsøe Section in collaboration with Foucault Circle Introductory Essay: Foucauldian Spaces Dianna Taylor, Joanna Crosby Articles South Africa as postcolonial heterotopia: The racialized experience of place and space Charles Villet The 2015 Baltimore Protests: Human Capital and …

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Heike Delitz, Architectural Modes of Collective Existence: Architectural Sociology as a Comparative Social Theory (2018) Cultural Sociology, 12 (1), pp. 37-57. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975517718435 Abstract This article proposes a cross-cultural, comparative architectural sociology as a means of sociological analysis. It also emphasizes the social positivity of architecture. After a short overview of architectural sociology and its history, …

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Alderton, J., Gifford, S. Teaching mathematics to lower attainers: dilemmas and discourses (2018) Research in Mathematics Education, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14794802.2017.1422010 Abstract This article draws on Foucault’s concepts of power and discourse to explore the issues of teaching mathematics to low attainers in primary schools in England. We analyse a data set …

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Koyuncu, Emre, Animals as criminals: Towards a foucauldian analysis of animal trials Parergon, Vol. 35, No. 1, June 2018: [79]-96 Abstract: Scholarship on the early modern practice of animal trials in Europe has grown substantially in the last few decades. After a critical literature review pointing at the shortcomings of positivist approaches and of the …

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Nieuwenhuis, M. Atmospheric governance: Gassing as law for the protection and killing of life (2018) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36 (1), pp. 78-95. DOI: 10.1177/0263775817729378 Abstract Breathing is the activity which all forms of animated life share in common. The breath has been symbolised across cultures as the meaning of life itself. …

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Dowd, G. Regimes of language and light in J. S. Le Fanu’s ‘Green Tea’ (2018) Textual Practice, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1426037 Abstract While positioning and contextualising the short story ‘Green Tea’ by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) in relation to existing Le Fanu scholarship, this article seeks to explore further the textual …

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Patrick Gamez, Did Foucault do Ethics? The “Ethical Turn,” Neoliberalism, and the Problem of Truth, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy – Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française, Vol XXVI, No 1 (2018) pp 107-133 https://doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2018.818 Abstract This paper argues against a common misunderstanding of Foucault’s work. Even after the release of …

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McGlashan, H., Fitzpatrick, K. ‘I use any pronouns, and I’m questioning everything else’: transgender youth and the issue of gender pronouns (2018) Sex Education, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2017.1419949 Abstract The nature of sex/ualities, genders and schooling has changed considerably over the last 20 years, with global political, social and cultural shifts bringing …

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