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

Phillips, M., Woodham, A., Hooper-Greenhill, E. Foucault and museum geographies: a case study of the English ‘Renaissance in the Regions’ (2015) Social and Cultural Geography, 34 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2015.1009854 Abstract This paper explores the subject of museum geographies, focusing particularly on the development of museum policies in a changing political context. The …

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Kavoura, A., Ryba, T.V., Chroni, S. Negotiating female judoka identities in Greece: A Foucauldian discourse analysis (2015) Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 17, pp. 88-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2014.09.011 Abstract Objectives: The objectives of this paper are to trace the discourses through which female Greek judokas articulate their sporting experiences and to explore how they construct their …

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Cox, B.D., Pringle, R. ‘Muscles for Motherhood’: A Genealogical Analysis of Medicalised Ways of Knowing Female Footballers in New Zealand, 1921 and 1973–1975 (2015) International Journal of the History of Sport, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2014.989497 Abstract Michel Foucault argued that females gradually became integrated into the sphere of medical practices through a …

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Kristjánsdóttir, S. Becoming Christian: A Matter of Everyday Resistance and Negotiation (2015) Norwegian Archaeological Review, 19 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00293652.2015.1015602 Abstract The diverse appearances of church buildings, iconography and altered burial practices have commonly been used to exemplify the expansion of Christianity in early medieval Europe. Less emphasis has been placed on how …

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Peach,, H.G., Jr, Bieber, J.P. Faculty and online education as a mechanism of power (2015) Distance Education, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2015.1019971 Abstract This study uses a critical perspective to examine how online education is used in brick-and-mortar institutions as a mechanism through which power is exercised by and against professors who teach …

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Colin Koopman, ‘Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory: Concepts and Methods in Giorgio Agamben and Ian Hacking’, Constellations (1), 0 Article first published online: 19 MAY 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12153 First paragraph in lieu of abstract Putting Foucault to Work It is difficult to locate a single area of intellectual inquiry in the humanities …

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Matteo Pasquinelli, What an Apparatus is Not: On the Archeology of the Norm in Foucault, Canguilhem, and Goldstein In the new issue 22 (2015) of Parrhesia (open access) Table of contents FEATURES The Technological Condition Erich Hörl, translated by Anthony Enns The Real and the All-Too-Human Joseph Vogl, translated by William Callison ESSAYS ‘A Cataclysm …

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Hodge, S. Alienating curriculum work in Australian vocational education and training (2015) Critical Studies in Education, 17 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.1009842 Abstract Competency-based training (CBT) is a curriculum model employed in educational sectors, professions and industries around the world. A significant feature of the model is its permeability to control by interests outside …

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Busse, J. Theorizing Governance as Globalized Governmentality: The Dynamics of World-Societal Order in Palestine (2015) Middle East Critique, 29 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2015.1010338 Abstract In many cases, Middle East Studies and International Relations (IR) fail to provide an appropriate account of governance and power and the underlying dynamics of global political order. In …

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Sobe, N.W. All that is global is not world culture: accountability systems and educational apparatuses (2015) Globalisation, Societies and Education, 13 (1), pp. 135-148. DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2014.967501 Abstract This article explores why we see educational accountability systems circulating transnationally. It argues that researchers in the field of comparative and international education need to use the concepts …

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