Foucault News

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

Foucauldian Genealogy and Maoism Thanasis Lagios February 05, 2016 DOI: 10.13095/uzh.fsw.fb.130) Keywords: genealogy | leftism | maoism | nietzsche | politics Link to issue on conference Concerning the origin and foundation of the method of genealogy in Foucault’s work, there is an astonishingly unanimous “interpretative consensus” among Foucault scholars.[1] While there is great disagreement about …

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Kelvin T. Knight, Placeless places: resolving the paradox of Foucault’s heterotopia (2016) Textual Practice, 31(1), 141–158. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2016.1156151 ABSTRACT This article looks to restore Michel Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia to its literary origins, and to thereby resolve the paradox that exists between Foucault’s various definitions of the term. Described by Foucault as both an unimaginable …

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Special Issue: Foucault Meets EU Studies Global Society (2016), Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 387-506. Table of contents: Introduction: Foucault Meets EU Studies Lucie Chamlian & Dirk Nabers The Colonisation of the Future: Power, Knowledge and Preparedness in CSDP Lucie Chamlian Exploring the Security/Facilitation Nexus: Foucault at the `Smart´ Border Matthias Leese Knots, Port Authorities …

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McMahon, J., Barker-Ruchti, N. The media’s role in transmitting a cultural ideology and the effect on the general public (2016) Qualitiative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 8 (2), pp. 131-146. DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2015.1121912 Abstract Previous research investigating Australian swimming culture revealed a deeply entrenched ‘slim to win’ ideology, a notion that is centred on the …

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Elise Hunkin, Deploying Foucauldian genealogy: Critiquing ‘quality’ reform in early childhood policy in Australia, Power and Education March 1, 2016 8: 35-53 doi: 10.1177/1757743815624114 Abstract The last two decades have seen the emergence of a global education paradigm that has reimagined education through the lens of neo-liberal ideology. Education policy agendas and discourses in current …

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Ole B. Jensen, New ‘Foucauldian Boomerangs’: Drones and Urban Surveillance, Surveillance and Society, Vol 14, No 1 (2016) Full PDF Abstract This paper uses the metaphor of ‘boomerangs’ articulated by Michel Foucault to discuss the potential for drones to become the ‘next layer’ of urban surveillance in our cities. Like earlier Western technologies and techniques …

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Katherine Bischoping, Selom Chapman-Nyaho, Rebecca Raby, Linking Visuality to Justice through International Cover Designs for Discipline and Punish, Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Visualizing Justice (IJR) Volume 5: Winter 2016, pp. 180-214 Full PDF Abstract: Discipline and Punish revolves around the demise of a brief impulse to develop a juridical subject. We employ cover …

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Helena Ostrowicka, On the Reception of Foucauldian Ideas in Pedagogical Research, European Educational Research Journal, September 2011 vol. 10 no. 3 433-444 doi: 10.2304/eerj.2011.10.3.433 Full text Abstract The article is devoted to the presentation of the reception of Foucauldian ideas in Polish pedagogical research over the past twenty years. This movement of thought is described …

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Deirdre McGowan, “Governed by marriage law: An Irish genealogy” (2016) 25 Social and Legal Studies 311. doi: 10.1177/0964663915614110 Abstract: Marriage law links the private and the political, connecting the aspirations of individuals to the regulatory ambitions of the state. Marriage has significant social and cultural importance, but the assumptions of stability and care it entails …

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Eduardo Rivera Vicencio, Monetary Conformation of the Corporate Governmentality II The Monetary System and the Privatization Process, Journal of Governance and Regulation, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2016, 75-90 Abstract The global governance of large corporations or corporate governmentality changed over time through the penetration of the economy in all aspects of society but which has …

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