Foucault News

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

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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Lopes, E., Carter, D., Street, J. Power relations and contrasting conceptions of evidence in patient-involvement processes used to inform health funding decisions in Australia (2015) Social Science and Medicine, 135, pp. 84-91. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.04.021 Abstract We collected and analysed views of key stakeholders on the processes used to involve patient organisations in health care funding …

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Hanna, P. Reconceptualizing subjectivity in critical social psychology: Turning to Foucault (2013) Theory and Psychology, 23 (5), pp. 657-674. DOI: 10.1177/0959354313493152 Abstract This article focuses on a reading of Foucault which draws on “technologies of the self,” as opposed to “technologies of subjectivity,” and examines the relevance of this work for critical psychology. The article …

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Voyce, M. From Ethics to Aesthetics: A Reconsideration of Buddhist Monastic Rules in the Light of Michel Foucault’s Work on Ethics (2015) Contemporary Buddhism, 31 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14639947.2015.1020735 Abstract This article considers the recent debate over the nature of Buddhist ethics largely conducted by scholars who have argued in different ways that …

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Gourlay, L. Open education as a ‘heterotopia of desire’ (2015) Learning, Media and Technology, 18 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2015.1029941 Abstract The movement towards ‘openness’ in education has tended to position itself as inherently democratising, radical, egalitarian and critical of powerful gatekeepers to learning. While ‘openness’ is often positioned as a critique, I will …

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O’Neill, A.-M. The New Zealand experiment: assessment-driven curriculum – managing standards, competition and performance to strengthen governmentality (2015) Journal of Education Policy, 24 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1033766 Abstract Following the Tomorrow’s Schools administrative restructuring, a second wave of educational change installed globalised discourses as governmentality policies in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on Foucault’s …

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Paul Patton, Government, rights and legitimacy: Foucault and liberal political normativity, European Journal of Political Theory May 5, 2015 doi: 10.1177/1474885115582077 Abstract One way to characterise the difference between analytic and Continental political philosophy concerns the different roles played by normative and descriptive analysis in each case. This article argues that, even though Michel Foucault’s …

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Estudos Nietzsche: Special Issue on Foucault and Nietzsche, vol.5, no.1, jan./jun. 2014 Estudos Nietzsche is an open access journal. Full PDFs are available. All articles are in Portuguese SUMÁRIO Editorial 1. Editorial v. 5, n. 1 (jan./jun. 2014) Ernani Chaves. Artigos 1. Filosofia da cultura e escrita da história: Notas sobre as relações entre os …

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New issue Foucault Studies Number 19: Disability Foucault Studies is an open access journal and full PDFs of the articles can be found on the website. Table of Contents Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Barbara Cruikshank, Knut Ove Eliassen, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Johanna Oksala, Sven Opitz, Jyoti Puri, Jens Erik Kristensen, Alan Rosenberg, Jeppe …

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