Foucault News

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

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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Casey, A., Larsson, H. “It’s Groundhog Day”: Foucault’s Governmentality and Crisis Discourses in Physical Education (2018) Quest, pp. 1-18. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00336297.2018.1451347 Abstract Dominant discourses in physical education research center on subject-wide crisis. This is despite repeated calls to address enduring concerns about how physical education is taught. In short, the subject seems …

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Angermuller, J. Accumulating discursive capital, valuating subject positions. From Marx to Foucault (2018) Critical Discourse Studies, pp. 1-12. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2018.1457551 Abstract Whenever people use language, they participate in valuation practices, i.e. they give value to themselves as well as to others. To account for the construction of social inequality through discursive valuation …

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Gera Roy, A. Dream of a World Without Borders: A Century After the Komagata Maru (2018) Social and Legal Studies, 27 (2), pp. 219-235. DOI: 10.1177/0964663917746484 Abstract This essay revisits the ‘Komagata Maru’ incident of 1914 to investigate the legalities that have complicated migration from some parts of the world to others since the era …

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Angelaki, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities Special Issue: Problems in twentieth-century French philosophy Vol 23, no. 2 2018 Issue editors: Sean Bowden and Mark G.E. Kelly Introduction PROBLEMS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH PHILOSOPHY Sean Bowden & Mark G.E. Kelly Page: 1 Editorial PROBLEMATIZING PROBLEMS Sean Bowden & Mark G.E. Kelly Pages: 2-7 THE MISADVENTURES OF THE …

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Zoë Brigley Thompson,From safe spaces to precarious moments: teaching sexuality and violence in the American higher education classroom(2018) Gender and Education, 32(3), 395–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2018.1458077 Abstract Critics of safe spaces in campus teaching often fail to understand the complexity of instructors’ practices in teaching controversial topics. Beginning with recent controversy regarding safe spaces in the higher …

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Daniel Verginelli Galantin, A presença de Georges Bataille no pensamento de Michel Foucault: entre o ser da linguagem, insurreição e atitude crítica, Doispontos, volume 14, número 1, pp. 213-228, abril de 2017 Resumo: Neste artigo propomos uma análise da presença do pensamento de Georges Bataille na obra de Michel Foucault. A partir de certos elementos …

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Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, (2018) Complexity and Ambivalence: The Ethics of Jazz in Sidney Bechet’s and Warren Dodds’s Autobiographies, Jazz Perspectives, Published online: 16 Jul 2018 DOI: 10.1080/17494060.2018.1492243 ABSTRACT During the twentieth century, jazz was at the center of multiple debates about social life and American experience. Jazz music and its performers were framed in both positive and …

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Kerr, R. The role of science in the practice of talent identification: a case study from gymnastics in New Zealand (2018) Sport in Society, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2018.1435032 Abstract Talent identification is an example of a practice where ‘scientism threatens to engulf us all.’ Talent identification and development are areas where models …

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