Foucault News

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

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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Deirdre McGowan, “Governed by marriage law: An Irish genealogy” (2016) vol 25, Issue 3, Social and Legal Studies. https://doi.org/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 …

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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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A. Kiarina Kordela, Monsters of biopower: Terror(ism) and horror in the era of affect (2016) Philosophy Today, 60 (1), pp. 193-205. Special Issue: The Power of the Monstrous Update 12 July 2026: The DOI is listed as https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2016113104 but link does not resolve to article – so see link above. Abstract This paper argues that …

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Bal Sokhi-Bulley, Re-reading the Riots: Counter-Conduct in London 2011 (2016) Global Society, 30(2), 320–339. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2016.1143348 Abstract The riots that took place in England in August 2011 have widely been described as destructive, senseless and without purpose. This article, taking inspiration from Michel Foucault’s later work on revolt as counter-conduct, argues for a new understanding of …

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Berthold Molden, Resistant pasts versus mnemonic hegemony: On the power relations of collective memory (2016) Memory Studies, 9 (2), pp. 125-142. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698015596014 Abstract The politics of history and memory in any society are determined by the relations of forces between hegemonic master narratives, defiant counter-memories, and silent majorities whose historical experience is rarely articulated in …

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