Foucault News

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

Brendon Murphy (2016), Deceptive apparatus: Foucauldian perspectives on law, authorised crime and the rationalities of undercover investigation, Griffith Law Review, 25(2), 223–244. https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2016.1194956 ABSTRACT Investigation of crime is central to the function and purpose of law enforcement. Contemporary investigation depends on a sophisticated arsenal of theories and techniques interacting with law and its institutions in …

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Borg, Kurt, Conducting critique : reconsidering Foucault’s engagement with the question of the subject, Symposia Melitensia (SymMel) 2015, Volume 11 Full PDF Abstract: A common criticism of Michel Foucault’s works is that his writings on power relations over-emphasized the effects that technologies of power have upon the subjection of humans, rendering any attempt of resistance …

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Thanasis Lagios, “Foucauldian Genealogy and Maoism.” Le foucaldien 2, no. 1 (2016): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.12 [Note: In 2022, Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy+Critique.] Abstract If we look at the historical and social presuppositions of Foucault’s methodology, we find out that Nietzsche’s work cannot be the only root of the shift from archaeology to genealogy. In fact, …

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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 Abstract: Discipline and Punish revolves around the demise of a brief impulse to develop a juridical subject. We employ cover designs of …

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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 https://doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2011.10.3.433 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 as an oscillation …

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