Foucault News

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

Stephen Legg, Subject to truth: Before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s, Environment and Planning D, February 25, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816633474 Abstract In this article, I situate Foucault’s governmentality analytics between his first lecture course (On the Will to Know, 1970–1971) and his first course after his two ‘governmentality’ lectures (On the Government of the Living, …

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Stephen J. Ball, Living the Neo-liberal University, European Journal of Education, Volume 50, Issue 3, pages 258–261, September 2015 DOI: 10.1111/ejed.12132 Full pdf available on research gate Opening paragraphs ‘Each of my works is a part of my own biography. For one or other reason I had occasion to feel and live those things’ Truth, …

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Harriet Pattison, How to Desire Differently: Home Education as a Heterotopia, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 49, Issue 4, pages 619–637, November 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.12130 Abstract This article explores the co-existence of, and relationship between, alternative education in the form of home education and mainstream schooling. Home education is conceptually subordinate to schooling, relying …

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Magnus Paulsen Hansen, Non-normative critique. Foucault and pragmatic sociology as tactical re-politicization, European Journal of Social Theory February 2016 vol. 19 no. 1, 127-145 doi: 10.1177/1368431014562705 Abstract The close ties between modes of governing, subjectivities and critique in contemporary societies challenge the role of critical social research. The classical normative ethos of the unmasking researcher …

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Samta P Pandya, Governmentality and guru-led movements in India, Some arguments from the field, European Journal of Social Theory February 2016 vol. 19 no. 1, 74-93 doi: 10.1177/1368431015602355 Abstract The concept of governmentality has a textual and philosophical basis as well as being concerned with what might be called the practices of government. This article …

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Bowen Paulle, Beneath rationalization: Elias, Foucault, and the body,European Journal of Social Theory February 2016 vol. 19 no. 1 39-56 doi: 10.1177/1368431015602355 Abstract Elias and Foucault ended up making the same core discovery about the same fundamental social process, which we term the ‘social constraints towards self-discipline’ process. We show how three distinct biographical and …

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Thamy Ayouch, Psychanalyse et transidentités : hétérotopies, L’Évolution Psychiatrique, Volume 80, Issue 2, April–June 2015, Pages 303–316 doi:10.1016/j.evopsy.2015.01.004 Résumé Objectifs Repenser la filiation psychiatrique de nombre de théorisations analytiques de la « transsexualité », en désigner les points de butée, pour voir si et comment il est possible de penser une psychanalyse de la post-transsexualité. Chercher …

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Dawes, S. Foucault-phobia and the problem with the critique of neoliberal ideology: a response to Downey et al. (2016) Media, Culture and Society, 38 (2), pp. 284-293. DOI: 10.1177/0163443715610922 [Editor’s note: I have posted details of Downey et al’s article below for easy consultation] Abstract Among a spate of recent articles addressing the legacy of …

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Vandaele, J. What is an author, indeed: Michel Foucault in translation (2016) Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 24 (1), pp. 76-92. DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2015.1047386 Abstract Though the issue of translation occasionally surfaces in Foucault Studies, it remains an area that deserves more attention. To that effect, I briefly introduce some basic concepts of Translation Studies and then …

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Aldo Avellaneda, “Las escalas del poder político. Artes, redes y técnicas en los estudios de gubernamentalidad”, Astrolabio. Nueva Época, Núm. 14 (2015) Full PDF available Resumen: Este trabajo avanza la tesis de que los estudios de gubernamentalidad se han definido por la ausencia de un perímetro o dominio concerniente al poder político para realizar sus …

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