Foucault News

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

Yngfalk, C. Bio-politicizing consumption: neo-liberal consumerism and disembodiment in the food marketplace (2016) Consumption Markets and Culture, 19 (3), pp. 275-295. DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1102725 Abstract How consumerism proliferates in society is central to consumer culture studies, yet little research has examined the power of consumerist discourses in shaping consumption at the intersection of marketing with State …

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Francesca Moore, ‘A band of public-spirited women’: Middle-class female philanthropy and citizenship in Bolton, Lancashire before 1918 (2016) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41 (2), pp. 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12114 Abstract In the 19th and early 20th centuries, despite the cultural ideal of private and public as separate spheres and a lack of formal voting …

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Clinton, M.E., Springer, R.A. Foucault’s legacy for nursing: Are we beneficiaries or intestate heirs? (2016) Nursing Philosophy, 17 (2), pp. 119-131. DOI: 10.1111/nup.12113 Abstract Drawing upon selected literature from the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Canada we examine how Foucault’s concepts of ‘episteme’, ‘rupture’ ‘parrhesia’ ‘care of the self’, and ‘problemitization’ have been applied to particular …

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Siisiäinen, L. Foucault and Gay Counter-Conduct (2016) Global Society, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2016.1144567 Abstract In his late work, Michel Foucault elaborates on the notion of resistance in a meticulous fashion, introducing the more precise concept of counter-conduct. This article contributes to this topical discussion within a specific framework: the gay mode of …

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O’Neill, A.-M. Assessment-based curriculum: globalising and enterprising culture, human capital and teacher–technicians in Aotearoa New Zealand (2016) Journal of Education Policy, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2016.1150520 Abstract This policy chronology traces the institution of globalised school curriculum and assessment discourses, as a vernacular and specific form of public rationalisation and educational governmentality in …

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Young, H. Asking the ‘right’ questions: the constitution of school governing bodies as apolitical (2016) Journal of Education Policy, 31 (2), pp. 161-177. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1062145 Abstract School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and responsibilities with regard to the education of pupils. This paper draws on an analysis of policy and on qualitative research …

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Ojalammi, S., Blomley, N. Dancing with wolves: Making legal territory in a more-than-human world (2015) Geoforum, 62, pp. 51-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.022 Abstract As human codings of animals are often simultaneously legal and spatial, it may be useful to bring together the animal geographies literature and scholarship on legal geography. Through a case study set in …

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Nicholas Heron, What Is a Minister? Toward a Theory of the Instrumental Cause, CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2015, pp. 135–166 Full text on Academia.edu First few lines The problem of the relationship between politics and religion in modernity, Michel Foucault once suggested, is not the problem of the relationship between …

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VALDEZ, I. Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban (2016) American Political Science Review, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055415000647 Abstract This article proposes a conception of freedom understood as practices. Based on Michel Foucault’s work on the ethics of the self, I develop a conception of …

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Despard, E. Diagram of a love for plants gone bad (2016) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34 (2), pp. 337-354. DOI: 10.1177/0263775815615124 Abstract This article uses a surprising horticultural event—an unplanned, collective ‘theft’ of plants from the Montreal Botanical Garden in 1981—as impetus to interrogate the contribution of garden plants to public life …

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