Foucault News

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

Mark Redhead, Complimenting rivals: Foucault, Rawls and the problem of public reasoning, Philosophy Social Criticism February 16, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453715568922 Abstract This article pursues two questions: Can one use Foucault’s later writings on parrhesia and Kant to create a Foucaldian approach to public reason? If so, what lessons might those attracted to John Rawls’ well-known model …

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Asli Daldal, Power and Ideology in Michel Foucault and Antonio Gramsci: A Comparative Analysis, Review of History and Political Science, Vol 2 No 2 June 2014 Abstract Full PDF available Abstract In devising their theories of power and ideology both Gramsci and Foucault make use of Machiavelli’s notion of “relations of force”. They therefore diffuse …

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Hanna, P., Johnson, K., Stenner, P., Adams, M. Foucault, sustainable tourism, and relationships with the environment (human and nonhuman) (2015) GeoJournal, 80 (2), pp. 301-314. DOI: 10.1007/s10708-014-9557-7 Abstract Drawing on contemporary research into ethical consumption and sustainable tourism this article starts by outlining the ways in which sustainable tourism (and other forms of ethical consumption) …

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Michalinos Zembylas, ‘Pedagogy of discomfort’ and its ethical implications: the tensions of ethical violence in social justice education (2015) Ethics and Education, 10(2), 163–174. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2015.1039274 Abstract This essay considers the ethical implications of engaging in a pedagogy of discomfort, using as a point of departure Butler’s reflections on ethical violence and norms. The author shows …

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Bryant, L., George, J. Examining uncertainty and trust among irrigators and regulatory bodies in the Murray-Darling Basin (2015) International Journal of Water Resources Development, 14 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2015.1028584 Abstract Due to changing climate and water legislation in South Australia, Australia’s oldest water trust, the Renmark Irrigation Trust (RIT), and the community it …

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Phil Carney, Foucault’s Punitive Society: Visual Tactics of Marking as a History of the Present, British Journal of Criminology (2015) 55 (2): 231-247. First published online: January 7, 2015 doi: 10.1093/bjc/azu105 Abstract Applying a form of genealogical method rooted in Nietzsche’s use of history, this article seeks an understanding of ‘marking’ punishments in our own …

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Michalinos Zembylas, Foucault and Human Rights: Seeking the Renewal of Human Rights Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Article first published online: 30 JUN 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.12148 Abstract This article takes up Foucault’s politics of human rights and suggests that it may constitute a point of departure for the renewal of HRE, not only because …

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Kaye, R.A. The new other Victorians: the success (and failure) of queer theory in nineteenth-century British studies (2014) Victorian Literature and Culture, 17 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/S1060150314000291 Abstract Much of the critical writing on Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies in a Victorian context over the last decade or so has been absorbing, exploring, …

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Hope, A. Biopower and school surveillance technologies 2.0 (2015) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2014.1001060 Abstract In recent years the proliferation, speed and reach of school-based surveillance devices has undergone what could be labelled as a revolution. Drawing upon Foucault’s concept of biopower to explore the disciplining of …

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Manan, S.A., David, M.K., Dumanig, F.P. Language management: a snapshot of governmentality within the private schools in Quetta, Pakistan (2014) Language Policy, 24 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10993-014-9343-x Abstract Pakistan is a multilingual and multiethnic country; however, this diversity stands unrecognized in the formal language-in-education policies. Estimates suggest that about 90 % of children …

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