Foucault News

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

Joranger, L. The Evolution and Integration of Life and Theory in Foucault’s Work on Power (2024) Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science DOI: 10.1007/s12124-024-09862-8 Abstract The article is a response to Kaldybekov and his colleague’s, 2024 paper about Foucault’s theory on power. I argue that it is difficult to understand Foucault’s theory of power without looking …

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Taheri, H. Censoring Iranian cinema: normalization of the “modest” woman (2024) Feminist Media Studies DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2024.2328089 Abstract This research examines the structure of Iranian film that has normalized the image of the “modest” Iranian woman, which has little to no relation to the reality of Iranian women. This power structure includes not only the modesty …

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Pavlich, G. Plaguing Segregations: Paradigms of Rule at The Cape of Good Hope (2024) Canadian Journal of Law and Society DOI: 10.1017/cls.2023.25 Abstract Power, while fundamental to sociality, might be exercised with haphazard ferocity or more judiciously in legally constrained ways. Such constraint requires us first to understand how ruling paradigms work, and the effects …

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Chiang, T.-H., Achaa, L.O., Ball, S.J. Activating self-monitoring through the discourse of fear and hope: The subjectivation of enterprising teachers (2024) International Journal of Educational Research, 125, art. no. 102324 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102324 Abstract Drawing upon Foucault’s governmentality, this study sets out to explore how enterprising subjects constituted through self-monitoring are fashioned in the epoch of …

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Vertelyte, M., Li, J.H. Friendship pedagogies as technologies of power: deploying friendship to foster participation of racially minoritized students in Danish education (2024) Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research DOI: 10.1080/00313831.2024.2317725 Abstract This article explores how friendship relations have been used in approaches to the participation of racially minoritized students in Danish schools from the 1970s …

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Ritts, M., Simlai, T., Gabrys, J. The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests (2024) Political Geography, 110, art. no. 103074 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103074 Abstract The rise of digital acoustic monitoring is having transformative effects within forest conservation geographies and practices. By featuring divergent acoustic signals (a gunshot, a bird call) …

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Cotter, S. Chomsky versus Foucault, and the Problem of Knowledge in Translation (2023) Know, 7 (2), pp. 171-183. DOI: 10.1086/727781 Extract […] With the advantage of several decades on Said’s 1999 essay, we may compare the Reflexive Water translation with the original debate, available on YouTube.13 Despite occasional markers of conversational verisimilitude (“yeah” or “may …

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Chu, Y. Cartooning COVID-19 in China (2023) Critical Arts, 37 (4), pp. 39-56. DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2023.2290689 Abstract The paper offers a discourse analysis of the visuality of COVID-19 cartoons published in three media outlets in China: Satire and Humour, circulated in the domestic market, China Daily, targeting an international anglophone readership, and an alternative, critical voice …

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Kazharski, A. On “Westsplaining,” Realism, and Technologies of the Self: A Foucauldian Reading of the Realist Commentary on Ukraine (2024) Journal of Regional Security, 19 (1), pp. 77-96. DOI: 10.5937/JRS19-48501 Abstract The article offers a Foucauldian reading of the Western realist commentary on the Russo-Ukrainian war which often faces the charges of “Westsplaining.” It situates …

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Li, J. Interdiscursivity through Foucault’s dreams of the plague: discursive constructions of the covid-19 pandemic in The New York Times (2024) Journal of Multicultural Discourses Abstract Adopting an interdiscursive approach to text and discourse, this study investigates the complex and interwoven discursive relations between various social and discursive practices in The New York Times’s representation …

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