Foucault News

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

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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Mika, C., Stewart, G. Māori in the Kingdom of the Gaze: Subjects or critics? (2015) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 13 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2015.1013017 Abstract For Māori, a real opportunity exists to flesh out some terms and concepts that Western thinkers have adopted and that precede disciplines but necessarily inform them. In this …

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Maria Hynes and Scott Sharpe, Habits, style and how to wear them lightly (2015) Cultural Geographies, 22 (1), pp. 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474014560682 Abstract Contributing to cultural geography’s emerging interest in the work of Felix Ravaisson, this article explores the relationship between the impersonal force of habit and the personalised production of subjectivity. More precisely, our concern …

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Nordtveit, B.H. Knowledge production in a constructed field: reflections on comparative and international education (2015) Asia Pacific Education Review, 11 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s12564-015-9354-0 Abstract Adopting Maria Manzon’s theoretical framework, which draws on Foucault and proposes that comparative education as an academic field is socially constructed, I suggest that the field is neither …

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Niesche, R. Governmentality and My School: School Principals in Societies of Control (2015) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (2), pp. 133-145. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2013.793925 Abstract The introduction of new accountabilities and techniques of government for the purposes of educational reform have created new complexities and tensions for school leadership. Policies such as the publishing of league …

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Golob, M.I., Giles, A.R. Multiculturalism, neoliberalism and immigrant minorities’ involvement in the formation and operation of leisure-oriented ventures (2015) Leisure Studies, 34 (1), pp. 98-113. DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2014.962589 Abstract This study draws on Foucault’s concept of the ‘entrepreneur self’ to broaden understandings of the links and intersections between the normative prescriptions of multicultural citizenship in Canada …

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Hardy, C., Thomas, R. Discourse in a Material World (2015) Journal of Management Studies. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1111/joms.12113 Abstract We challenge recent assertions that discourse studies cannot de facto address materiality. We demonstrate how a Foucauldian theorization of discourse provides a way to analyse the co-constitutive nature of discursive and material processes, as well …

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Maddalena, K., Packer, J. The Digital Body: Telegraphy as Discourse Network (2015) Theory, Culture and Society, 32 (1), pp. 93-117. DOI: 10.1177/0263276413520620 Abstract This article considers the use of flag telegraphy by the US Signal Corps during the Civil War as it functioned as a proto-technical medium that preceded wire telegraphy as a military communications …

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Luchies, T. Towards an Insurrectionary Power/Knowledge: Movement-Relevance, Anti-Oppression, Prefiguration (2015) Social Movement Studies, 16 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2014.998643 Abstract Despite ongoing efforts to articulate radical methods and theoretical frameworks for social movement research, the field remains embedded in exploitative, oppressive, and hierarchical modes of knowledge production. Following Foucault, I argue that this is …

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