Foucault News

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

Bori, P., Petanović, J. Constructing the entrepreneurial-self: How Catalan textbooks present the neoliberal worker to their students (2016) Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 14 (3), pp. 154-174. Full PDF Abstract Since the year 2000 and the massive arrival of immigrants to the Spanish region of Catalonia, the Catalan language has vastly augmented its number …

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Nussbaum, A.M. “I am the Author and Must Take Full Responsibility”: Abraham Verghese, Physicians as the Storytellers of the Body, and the Renewal of Medicine (2016) Journal of Medical Humanities, 37 (4), pp. 389-399. DOI: 10.1007/s10912-014-9312-6 Abstract Abraham Verghese proposes to renew medicine by training physicians to read the right texts—literary fiction and patients’ bodies—with …

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Andrew Wilkins, Rescaling the local: multi-academy trusts, private monopoly and statecraft in England, Journal Of Educational Administration And History, Published online: 01 Feb 2017 10.1080/00220620.2017.1284769 Abstract For the past six years successive UK governments in England have introduced reforms intended to usher in less aggregated, top-down, bureaucratically overloaded models of service delivery. Yet the ‘hollowing …

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Patricio Lepe-Carrión, Predicación, verdad y sujeto colonial: genealogías de la obediencia en contexto mapuche, Chasqui. Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación N.º 132, agosto -noviembre 2016 (Sección Ensayo, pp. 245-260) Texto completo Resumen El presente texto examina las formas de predicación jesuita, contenidas en el esquema de subjetividad cristiana, y que entran en juego con las estrategias …

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Patricio Lepe-Carrión, Intercultural Education in Chile: Colonial Subjectivity and Ethno-Governmental Rationality, SISYPHUS Journal of Education volume 3, issue 3, 2015, pp. 60-87 Full PDF Abstract This article is the product of research conducted in the frame of FONDECYT Research Initiation project nº 11140804, entitled “Education and Cultural Racism: Evidence and Discursivities in Agents Who Implement …

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Daniele Lorenzini and Martina Tazzioli, Confessional Subjects and Conducts of Non-Truth: Foucault, Fanon, and the Making of the Subject, Theory, Culture and Society, 35(1), 2016, 71-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276416678291 Abstract This article puts Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon into dialogue in order to explore the relationships between the constitution of subjects and the production of truth in …

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Avelino, N. Confissão e normatividade política: controle da subjetividade e produção do sujeito (2017) Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, 32 (93), pp. 1-22. DOI: 10.17666/329304/2017 Full PDF available in Portuguese Abstract This article discusses the displacement in Foucault’s analysis of confession, trying to demonstrate how the focus of analysis goes from mandatory language forms to …

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Nildo Avelino, Foucault e a racionalidade (neo)liberal, (2016) Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política, 21, pp. 229-286. Avelino, N. Foucault and (neo)liberal rationality DOI: 10.1590/0103-335220162107 Full PDF available in Portuguese Resumo O artigo aborda o debate em torno da reflexão de Michel Foucault acerca do liberalismo e do neoliberalismo. Apresenta de maneira critica alguns trabalhos recentes, …

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Jordi Collet-Sabé, ‘I do not like what I am becoming but…’: transforming the identity of head teachers in Catalonia, Journal of Education Policy, Volume 32, 2017 – Issue 2. Pages 141-158 https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2016.1253873 Abstract The aim of this article is to elucidate how a new system of school and teacher assessment in Catalonia is transforming the …

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Foucault Studies Number 22: January 2017: Foucault and Roman Antiquity: Foucault’s Rome Editor’s note: I have now returned to the journal, of which I was one of the co-founders, as part of an expanded editorial team. An interview with another of the three founding editors of the journal, Stuart Elden, also appears in this issue, …

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