Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault : héritages et perspectives en éducation et formation. Le Télémaque, 2015/1 (n° 47) Sommaire Brigitte Frelat-Kahn, Dominique Ottavi, Alain Vergnioux Page 7 à 8 Ouverture Chronique morale Alain Vergnioux Page 9 à 15 La philosophie de François Châtelet Notion Valentina Crispi Page 17 à 30 L’interculturalité Dossier – Michel Foucault : héritages et …

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Perret, S. In the name of the nation? The National Award in Narrative Literature, and the democratization of art in Spain (1977–2013) (2015) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 17 p. Article in Press. Abstract This article looks at the history of the National Award in Narrative Literature (El Premio Nacional de Literatura, Modalidad Narrativa) – …

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Sverre Raffnsøe, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Morten S. Thaning, What is a dispositive? Foucault’s historical mappings of the networks of social reality. On Academia.edu. Note The present working paper represents an earlier version of our article “Foucault’s dispositive: The perspicacity of dispositive analytics in organizational research”, reviewed and published by Organization (Sept. 17, 2014; DOI: 10.1177/1350508414549885). We …

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Denison, J., Mills, J.P., Konoval, T. Sports’ disciplinary legacy and the challenge of ‘coaching differently’ (2015) Sport, Education and Society, 12 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2015.1061986 Abstract Be empowering. Be athlete-centered. Be autonomy supportive. These are three related topics currently being promoted by sport psychologists and sport pedagogists in an effort to recognize athletes’ …

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Burman, E. Knowing Foucault, knowing you: ‘raced’/classed and gendered subjectivities in the pedagogical state (2015) Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 25 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2015.1057215 Abstract This article evaluates the continuing contemporary relevance of Foucauldian analyses for critical educational and social research practice. Framed around examples drawn from everyday cultural and educational practices, I …

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Flanagan, K. A Genealogy of Public Housing Production: Practice, Knowledge and the Broadacre Housing Estate (2015) Housing, Theory and Society, 22 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2015.1054947 Abstract The rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s and its consequences for housing policy have long interested researchers. This study treats neoliberalism as a discursive practice that produces …

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Angus, Gail and Winslade, John M. (2015) “How Foucault’s Panopticon Governs Special Education In California,” Wisdom in Education: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 2. Abstract Special education laws in California function to create compliance by creating an environment of constant surveillance and monitoring from a range of perspectives. Even those who do the monitoring are …

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Ettlinger, N., Hartmann, C.D. Post/neo/liberalism in relational perspective (2015) Political Geography, 48, pp. 37-48. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.05.009 Abstract Within a decade of the new millennium new left governments in many countries across Latin America developed new constitutions that bespeak a new, postneoliberal era, supplanting neoliberal hegemony. Debates about postneoliberalism-as-governance or as a discourse lack resolution. Drawing …

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Danielle Guizzo and Iara Vigo de Lima “Foucault’s contributions for understanding power relations in British classical political economy”, Journal EconomiA, 2015, Volume 16, Issue 2 (in press) doi:10.1016/j.econ.2015.06.002 Abstract This paper analyzes the strategic role played by British classical political economy in constructing new technologies of power. Michel Foucault drew attention to a change that …

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