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

Lucy Powell, Doing Time: Temporality and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century British Prison Experience (2015) Life Writing, 15(1), 59–77, 2018. Published online 2015 https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2015.1118665 Abstract This paper argues that carceral experience was a generative and organisational motif in a large number of influential early British novels, which are read as life writing. I deploy Mikhail Bakhtin’s …

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Mark Olssen, Neoliberal competition in higher education today: research, accountability and impact (2016) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37 (1), pp. 129-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2015.1100530 Abstract Drawing on Foucault’s elaboration of neoliberalism as a positive form of state power, the ascendancy of neoliberalism in higher education in Britain is examined in terms of the displacement of …

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Waring, J., Latif, A., Boyd, M., Barber, N., Elliott, R. Pastoral power in the community pharmacy: A Foucauldian analysis of services to promote patient adherence to new medicine use (2016) Social Science and Medicine, 148, pp. 123-130. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.049 Abstract Community pharmacists play a growing role in the delivery of primary healthcare. This has led …

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Sifakakis, P., Tsatsaroni, A., Sarakinioti, A., Kourou, M. Governance and knowledge transformations in educational administration: Greek responses to global policies (2016) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48 (1), pp. 35-67. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2015.1040377 Abstract This article explores the localisation of the global and European discourse of educational governance in the Greek education system through the …

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Cynthia Hardy and Steve Maguire, Organizing risk: Discourse, power, and “riskification” (2016) Academy of Management Review, 41 (1), pp. 80-108. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2013.0106 Abstract Drawing on the work of Foucault, we develop an integrated framework for understanding how risk is organized in three different modes: prospectively, in real time, and retrospectively. We show how these modes are …

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Andreas Folkers, Daring the Truth: Foucault, Parrhesia and the Genealogy of Critique, Theory, Culture & Society, January 2016 vol. 33 no. 1 3-28 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414558885 Abstract This paper draws attention to Foucault’s genealogy of critique. In a series of inquiries, Foucault traced the origins and trajectories of critical practices from the ancient tradition of parrhesia to …

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Cristina Chimisso, Narrative and epistemology: Georges Canguilhem’s concept of scientific ideology (2015) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 54, pp. 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.08.016 Abstract In the late 1960s, Georges Canguilhem introduced the concept of ‘scientific ideology’. This concept had not played any role in his previous work, so why introduce it at all? …

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New Issue of Foucault Studies Number 20: December 2015: Civil Society All articles open access  Table of Contents Editorial Editorial PDF Sverre Raffnsøe et al. 1-3 Special Issue on Civil Society Introductory Note: Foucault and Civil Society PDF Miikka Pyykkönen 4-7 Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions …

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Vigo de Lima, I., Guizzo, D. An Archaeology of Adam Smith’s Epistemic Context (2015) Review of Political Economy, 21 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2015.1082819 Abstract Adam Smith played a key role in Foucault’s archaeology of political economy. This archaeology, which Foucault accomplished in The Order of Things, is the focus of this article. Foucault …

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