Foucault News

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

Macias, T. (2012). In the World: Toward a Foucauldian Ethics of Reading in Social Work. Intersectionalities: A Global Journal Of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, And Practice, 1, 1-19. Full text available ABSTRACT Teaching and learning critical and anti-oppressive frameworks pose many challenges within social work as a profession invested in notions of practice, competency, …

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Elisabetta Basso, Foucault entre psychanalyse et psychiatrie « Reprendre la folie au niveau de son langage » Archives de Philosophie 2016/1 (Tome 79) Source: Foucault entre psychanalyse et psychiatrie « Reprendre la folie au niveau de son langage » Résumé Cet article a pour but d’analyser la position qu’occupe la psychanalyse dans l’œuvre de Michel …

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Jean-François Braunstein, Foucault et les sciences humaines, Archives de Philosophie 2016/1 (Tome 79) Source: Foucault et les sciences humaines Premières lignes Michel Foucault semble désormais être devenu un « grand philosophe » comme les autres. Les livres, les colloques, les numéros spéciaux de revue, les enseignements et les séminaires de recherches se multiplient à l’envi, notamment à …

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Rose, J., Spencer, C. Immaterial labour in spaces of leisure: producing biopolitical subjectivities through Facebook (2015) Leisure Studies, 18 p. DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2015.1031271 Abstract This research critically examines ways in which highly popular yet relatively under theorised leisure experiences inform and are informed by the social and political governance of our everyday lives. Specifically, online social …

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Bartholomaeus, C. Developmental discourses as a regime of truth in research with primary school students (2016) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 29 (7), pp. 911-924. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2016.1174896 Abstract While developmental discourses have been heavily critiqued in relation to education systems, less attention has been paid to how these impact the data collection process …

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Lobo-Guerrero, L., Stobbe, A. Knots, Port authorities and governance: Knotting together the port of Hamburg (2016) Global Society, 30 (3), pp. 430-444. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2016.1173017 Abstract Ports and port systems have historically been pre-eminent global sites. Their role, which transcends that of connecting landed with maritime domains, is one without which the historically specific global connectedness …

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Johnston, J. Issues of professionalism and teachers: critical observations from research and the literature (2015) Australian Educational Researcher, 42 (3), art. no. 159, pp. 299-317. DOI: 10.1007/s13384-014-0159-7 Abstract The concept of ‘professionalism’ has become more evident in discourse about teacher quality in recent years. In fact, in some contexts ‘professionalism’ is used as a euphemism …

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Johansen, K.B.H., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T. The consequences of coping with stalking—results from the first qualitative study on stalking in Denmark (2016) International Journal of Public Health, pp. 1-7. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s00038-016-0851-7 Abstract Objectives: The purpose of this article is to explore: (1) how victims of stalking experience the phenomenon in their daily life, (2) …

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Jappah JV, Smith DT. Global governmentality: Biosecurity in the era of infectious diseases, Global Public Health. 2015;10(10):1139-56. Epub 2015 May 18. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2015.1038843 Abstract This paper uses Foucault’s concept of governmentality to examine relationships between globalisation, the threat of infectious diseases and biosecurity. It draws attention to forms of calculated practices which Foucault notes as …

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Zhao, Guoping, From the Philosophy of Consciousness to the Philosophy of Difference: The subject for education after humanism, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Volume 47, 2015 – Issue 9 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2015.1044840 Abstract Biesta has suggested that education after humanism should be interested in existence, not essence, in what the subject can do, not in what the subject …

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