Foucault News

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

Magnus Paulsen Hansen, Foucault’s Flirt? Neoliberalism, the Left and the Welfare State; a Commentary on La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault and Critiquer Foucault, Foucault Studies, No. 20, pp. 291-306, December 2015 Foucault Studies is an open access journal. Extract You have been read as an idealist, as a nihilist, as a “new philosopher,” an …

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Lawrence D. Berg, Edward H. Huijbens, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Producing Anxiety in the Neoliberal University Forthcoming in The Canadian Geographer/le Géographe Canadien Special issue on Critical Reflections on Cultivating an Ethic of Wellness in Geography Guest edited by Linda Peake, Kate Parizeau, and Beverley Mullings Draft on Academia.edu Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical analysis …

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Lars Thorup Larsen & Deborah Stone (2015): “Governing Health Care through Free Choice: Neoliberal Reforms in Denmark and the United States”, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 40(5): 941-70. doi: 10.1215/03616878-3161162 Abstract We compare free choice reforms in Denmark and the United States to understand what ideas and political forces could generate such similar …

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Conor Heaney, ‘What is the University today?’, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 13 (2), 2015, 287-314 Full PDF here and here Abstract What is the University today? In this paper, a Foucault and Deleuzo-Guattarian inspired approach is taken. I argue that the University is, today, a site of ‘neoliberal governmentality’, which governs students and …

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Lars Thorup Larsen (2015): “The problematization of fertility treatment: biopolitics and IVF policy in Denmark”, Distinktion 16(3): 318-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2015.1089520 Abstract: With the demographic challenges facing many European states, one would perhaps expect the state to invoke a biopolitical imperative to ‘faire vivre’, as Foucault termed it, and attempt to regulate birth rates. This expectation is …

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Dirk Postma, Critical agency in education: a Foucauldian perspective, Journal of Education, No. 61, 2015, 31-52 https://doi.org/10.17159/i61a02 Abstract While the neoliberal order is associated with the economy, government and globalisation, as a form of governmentality it effects a particular subjectivity. The subject is the terrain where the contest of control plays out. The subject is …

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Bahar Aykan and Sanem Güvenç-Salgırlı (2015). Responsibilizing individuals, regulating health: debating public spots, risk, and neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Turkey. New Perspectives on Turkey, 53, pp 71-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/npt.2015.19 Abstract: Currently, a mass media campaign is underway in Turkey using a new communication means called the “ public spot” (kamu spotu ). This article concentrates on …

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Lucas D. Introna, Algorithms, Governance, and Governmentality: On Governing Academic Writing (2016) Science Technology and Human Values, 41 (1), pp. 17-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243915587360 Abstract Algorithms, or rather algorithmic actions, are seen as problematic because they are inscrutable, automatic, and subsumed in the flow of daily practices. Yet, they are also seen to be playing an important …

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Fazito, M., Scott, M., Russell, P. The dynamics of tourism discourses and policy in Brazil (2016) Annals of Tourism Research, 57, pp. 1-17. DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2015.11.013 Abstract This article employs a Foucauldian inspired discourse analysis in order to unveil hidden aspects of the tourism development policy-making process in the UNESCO Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve, Brazil. It …

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Thompson, G., Mockler, N. Principals of audit: testing, data and ‘implicated advocacy’ (2016) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48 (1), pp. 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2015.1040376 Abstract Historically, school leaders have occupied a somewhat ambiguous position within networks of power. On the one hand, they appear to be celebrated as what Ball (2003) has termed the …

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