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

Vegter, M.W. Towards precision medicine; a new biomedical cosmology (2018) Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s11019-018-9828-z Abstract Precision Medicine has become a common label for data-intensive and patient-driven biomedical research. Its intended future is reflected in endeavours such as the Precision Medicine Initiative in the USA. This article addresses …

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Ralph Lamar Turner & Carol Gassaway (2018) Between kudzu and killer apps: Finding human ground between the monoculture of MOOCs and online mechanisms for learning, Educational Philosophy and Theory,Published online: 07 May 2018 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2018.1465816 Abstract Although MOOCs have not lived up to previously breathless predictions of disruption, they have had an outsized influence on university administrators …

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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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