Foucault News

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

Romito, M. Governing through guidance: an analysis of educational guidance practices in an Italian lower secondary school (2017) Discourse, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2017.1314251 Abstract Current social policy discourse defines educational and career guidance as a key tool to enhance individual self-realisation while pursuing collective social objectives (economic growth, reduction of drop-out rate, …

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Orazio IRRERA,« De l’archéologie du savoir aux archives coloniales. L’archive comme dispositif colonial de violence épistémique.” Práticas da História, Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, n. 3, 2016, pp. 51-70 Résumé: Dans cet article il sera question de problématiser l’archive comme lieu d’intersection de matrices épistémologiques et de matrices juridico-politiques, et de …

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Book Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, Society for contemporary thought and the Islamicate world (SCTIW) 3/21/2017 “Foucault and Iran” by Banu Bargu (New School for Social Research) 3/23/2017 “Rescuing the Revolution from Its Outcomes” by Anthony C. Alessandrini (Kingsborough Community College / CUNY Graduate Center) 3/28/2017 “Foucault: Against …

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Juan David Cárdenas, Cinema as a foucauldian dispositif: An anachronistic and materialistic approach (2017) Palabra Clave, 20 (1), pp. 69-95. DOI: 10.5294/pacla.2017.20.1.4 Abstract In general terms it is possible to describe this research as a materialistic approach to cinema. Our grasp of film is focused on the perspective of films as a product of work, …

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Francis Farrell, Vicky Duckworth, Monika Reece, Philip Rigby (2017), The moral frontiers of English education policy: governmentality and ethics within an alternative provision free school Educational Review 69 (3): 349–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2016.1223018 Abstract This article is a critical poststructuralist analysis of Conservative led free school policy in England focusing on claims made by the New Schools …

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Reveley, J. (2015). Foucauldian critique of positive education and related self-technologies: Some problems and new directions. Open Review of Educational Research, 2(1), 78-93. DOI: 10.1080/23265507.2014.996768 Abstract By focusing on positive education, this article draws out the educational implications of Binkley’s Foucauldian critique of neoliberal subjects being pressured to learn how to manage their emotions. From …

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Lotier, Kristopher M. “On Not Following Freire Foucault and the Critique of Human Capital.” Pedagogy 17, no. 2 (2017): 151-175. Abstract: Rather than ignoring or criticizing students’ vocational concerns, critical pedagogy can work on, in, and through them, thereby gaining persuasive credibility and simultaneously extending Paulo Freire’s educational project. Following Freire’s command to “rediscover power,” …

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Teresa Lloro-Bidart and Keri Semenko, Toward a feminist ethic of self-care for environmental educators (2017) Journal of Environmental Education, 48 (1), pp. 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2016.1249324 Abstract Feminist theory and philosophy have examined how dominant ideologies oppress women, nonhuman animals, and the environment. Feminist scholars also have begun to discuss how neoliberalism problematically re-inscribes women as the …

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Burkhart Brückner, Lukas Iwer & Samuel Thoma, Die Existenz, Abwesenheit und Macht des Wahnsinns. Eine kritische Übersicht zu Michel Foucaults Arbeiten zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Psychiatrie N.T.M. 25, 69–98 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-017-0164-9 Zusammenfassung In diesem Artikel diskutieren wir Michel Foucaults Hauptwerke zum Thema „Wahnsinn und Psychiatrie“ von den Frühschriften bis in die siebziger Jahre. Zum …

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