Foucault News

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

Asimaki, A., Koustourakis, G., Vergidis, D. Regulative discourses of primary schooling in Greece: memories of punishment (2016) International Studies in Sociology of Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09620214.2016.1191367 Abstract The mechanisms of discipline and power within the institution of the school constitute, in part, the relationship between society and childhood. This article traces …

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Formosinho, M., Jesus, P., Reis, C. Emancipatory and critical language education: a plea for translingual possible selves and worlds (2016) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1237983 Abstract Language is the main resource for meaningful action, including the very formation of selves and psychosocial identities, shaped by practical norms, beliefs, and …

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Lambert, K., Wright, P., Currie, J., Pascoe, R. Embodiment and becoming in secondary drama classrooms: the effects of neoliberal education cultures on performances of self and of drama texts (2016) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1238402 Abstract This article explores the effects of neoliberalism and performative educational cultures on secondary …

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Sellar, S., Thompson, G. The Becoming-Statistic: Information Ontologies and Computerized Adaptive Testing in Education (2016) Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, 16 (5), pp. 491-501. DOI: 10.1177/1532708616655770 Abstract This article examines how computerized adaptive testing functions in relation to learning in control societies. We first document the transition from static and discrete forms of statistical work …

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Clive Barnett, On Problematization Elaborations on a Theme in “Late Foucault” Nonsite.org, Issue 16, June 22, 2015 1. What is a “Foucault”? For at least four decades now, the ideas of Michel Foucault have resonated across a wide range of academic fields in the English-speaking academy. While this influence is perhaps most clearly felt in …

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Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, & Lars Fynbo (2017). Analysing the significance of silence in qualitative interviewing: questioning and shifting power relations. Qualitative Research, February https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794117694220 Abstract In this article we analyse the significance of silence in qualitative interviews with 36 individuals interviewed about high-risk, illegal activities. We describe how silence expresses a dynamic power relationship between …

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Dušan Marinković and Dušan Ristić, (2016) Foucault’s ‘Hall of Mirrors’: an Investigation into Geo‐Epistemology, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 98 (2): 83–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/geob.12092 Abstract In this article we aim to single out a part of Foucault’s trihedrals of spatialization – discourses and practices, that is, technologies of power that have their spatialized frames. In …

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Valeria Varea, Bonnie Pang, 2018. Using visual methodologies to understand pre-service Health and Physical Education teachers’ subjectivities of bodies, Sport, Education and Society, 23 (5): 394–406. Published online: 07 Sep 2016 https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2016.1228625 Abstract Socio-cultural theorists have argued that having a diverse understanding of subjectivities of normal/ideal bodies is important for Health and Physical Education (HPE) …

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Edwards, R. Competence-based education and the limitations of critique (2016) International Journal of Training Research, 14 (3), pp. 244-255. DOI: 10.1080/14480220.2016.1254366 Abstract Drawing upon the work of Foucault and Latour, this article reflects on 25 years of critique of competence-based education and its continuing strength as a way of framing education and training. Using an …

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Ja’afar, Z., Md. Yusof, N., Ibrahim, N. Revisioning history: A deconstructionist reading of a learner’s multimodal text, ‘Revenge’ (2016) Asian Social Science, 12 (8), pp. 64-73. DOI: 10.5539/ass.v12n8p64 Abstract Recent interest in multimodality recognizes the integration of text and image in meaning-making as representing reality. It has also been argued that with the use of …

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