Foucault News

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

New Issue of Pléyade: Biopolítica, number 17, launched in June 2016 Full PDF of issue available Pléyade is an international peer reviewed journal dedicated to the Humanities and Social Sciences funded the year 2008 by the Centre for Political Analysis and Research in Santiago, Chile. The journal is an independent publication since 2016. This publication …

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Dominique Beynier MICHEL FOUCAULT, « Le monde correctionnaire » , in Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (1961), Gallimard, 1974, 92-123 In Didier Drieu (ed) 46 commentaires de textes en clinique institutionnelle – Dunod, 2013 Premières lignes Michel Foucault (1926-1984), entre en 1946 à l’École normale supérieure. Il obtient en Sorbonne une licence de …

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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 79(1), 7-11. https://doi.org/10.3917/aphi.791.0007 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 l’occasion du trentième anniversaire …

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Jeff Rose and Callie Spencer, 2016, Immaterial labour in spaces of leisure: producing biopolitical subjectivities through Facebook, Leisure Studies, 35 (6): 809–26. Published online 2015. https://doi.org/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 …

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Clare Bartholomaeus, 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. https://doi.org/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 in …

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Luis Lobo-Guerrero & Anna Stobbe, 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 …

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Jenny Johnston, Issues of professionalism and teachers: critical observations from research and the literature(2015) Australian Educational Researcher, 42 (3), art. no. 159, pp. 299-317. https://doi.org/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 for quality …

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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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