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

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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New issue of materiali foucaultiani volume III, number 5-6 (January-December 2014) TABLE OF CONTENTS Il lavoro della sperimentazione  (pp. 4-7) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli La parrhesia e l’attualità politica della critica Introduzione  (pp. 9-13)   Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli Nota di lettura  (pp. 15-20)   Laura Cremonesi, Orazio …

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Beckett, A. and Campbell, T. The social model of disability as an oppositional device (2015) Disability & Society, 2015 Vol. 30, No. 2, 270-283 DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2014.999912 Abstract This article engages with debates about the UK Disabled People’s Movement’s ‘Big Idea’ – the social model of disability – positioning this as an ‘oppositional device’. This concept …

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Terri Bourke, John Lidstone & Mary Ryan, Schooling Teachers: Professionalism or disciplinary power? (2015) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (1), pp. 84-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.839374 Abstract Since public schooling was introduced in the nineteenth century, teachers in many western countries have endeavoured to achieve professional recognition. For a short period in the latter part of the twentieth …

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Rajesh Venugopal, Neoliberalism as Concept, Economy and Society, Published online: 24 Apr 2015 DOI:10.1080/03085147.2015.1013356 Abstract This paper is a critical exploration of the of the term neoliberalism. Drawing on a wide range of literature across the critical social sciences and with particular emphasis on the political economy of development, it evaluates the consequences of the …

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Appel à Article : “RELIRE MICHEL FOUCAULT Pouvoir et résistances : les dispositifs de contrôle” Cet appel invite à proposer des interprétations de Michel Foucault qui s’éloignent de la vision réductrice d’un critique pessimiste, qui dénonce les excès de pouvoir et les dispositifs en tout genre de contrôle social, mais sans proposer d’alternative. D’autres lectures …

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