Foucault News

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

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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Jiang, M. Managing the micro-self: the governmentality of real name registration policy in Chinese microblogosphere (2015) Information Communication and Society, 18 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1060723 Abstract This paper investigates the real name registration (RNR) policy introduced by Chinese authorities in 2011 to regulate its vibrant microblogosphere by encouraging users to manage their ‘micro-self’. …

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Greig, C.J., Holloway, S.M. A Foucauldian analysis of literary text selection practices and educational policies in Ontario, Canada (2015) Discourse, 14 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2015.1043239 Abstract Like schools, curricula are socially constructed and constituted within broader social, political, and historical relations of power, powerfully shaping students’ beliefs and attitudes about themselves and their …

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Hardy, M., Jobling, H. Beyond power/knowledge—developing a framework for understanding knowledge ‘flow’ in international social work (2015) European Journal of Social Work, 18 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2015.1043240 Abstract How are different ‘forms’ of knowledge developed, transmitted and institutionalised in social work? Foucault’s concept of ‘power/knowledge’ famously enabled us to understand such developments via …

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