Foucault News

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

Taylor, W.G., Piper, H., Garratt, D. Sports coaches as ‘dangerous individuals’-practice as governmentality (2014) Sport, Education and Society. Article in Press. Abstract Recent concern surrounding sports coaches’ interaction with young people has reflected a fundamental change in the way coaches and others regard the role of sports. In this paper, we consider the identification and …

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Hutchinson, M., Jackson, D. The construction and legitimation of workplace bullying in the public sector: Insight into power dynamics and organisational failures in health and social care (2014) Nursing Inquiry. Article in Press. Abstract Health-care and public sector institutions are high-risk settings for workplace bullying. Despite growing acknowledgement of the scale and consequence of this …

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Chaput, C., Hanan, J.S. Economic Rhetoric as Taxis: Neoliberal governmentality and the dispositif of freakonomics (2014) Journal of Cultural Economy. Article in Press. Abstract This essay expands the rhetoric of economics conversation started by economist Deirdre McCloskey. Through a close engagement with Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France from 1975 to 1979, concerning …

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The cover image was produced by Astra Howard, an Action Researcher/Performer currently living in Sydney Australia. Spanning more than a decade, her work has sought to elicit and document marginalised, or overlooked, experiences and discourses of the city. The specific image I have chosen is part of a series entitled ‘Kings Cross the Whisper.’ This …

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Armstrong, P. The discourse of Michel Foucault: A sociological encounter (2014) Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Article in Press. Abstract Michel Foucault is a major source for the idea in critical accounting and organizational studies that identities (selves, subjectivities) are discursively constituted. This return to the text is intended as a clarification of what Foucault actually …

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Barros, S.R. Deciphering Babel: Dis/locations of the professional self and the second language curriculum (2013) Qualitative Report, 18 (52). Full PDF Abstract In the following (auto) ethnographic study, I draw from Burdick’s (2012) analogy of qualitative research as “auto-archeology” and from parrhesia (Foucault, 1988) as a rhetorical device of self-definition and preservation to explore the …

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Andrew Zimmerman, Foucault in Berkeley and Magnitogorsk: Totalitarianism and the limits of liberal critique (2014) Contemporary European History, 23 (2), pp. 225-236. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777314000101 Abstract Returning to Stephen Kotkin’s Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization almost two decades after its publication allows us to take stock, from a slight temporal distance, of the reception in our …

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Colin Gordon, Plato in Weimar. Weber revisited via Foucault: two lectures on legitimation and vocation, Economy and Society, Volume 43, Issue 3, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2014.956464 The text that follows brings together two papers about resonances between late lectures: Weber’s lectures of 1918 on science and politics as vocations, and Foucault’s final courses (1980–84) on subjectivity, …

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Meenal Tula & Rekha Pande Re-inscribing the Indian courtesan: A genealogical approach (2014) Journal of International Women’s Studies, 15 (1), pp. 67-82. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol15/iss1/5/ Full PDF Abstract Women historiography has been one of the major concerns of the feminist movement particularly since 1960s. Looking at the figure of the courtesan in India-its histories, representations, repression and …

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Paul Hanna Foucauldian Discourse Analysis in Psychology: Reflecting on a Hybrid Reading of Foucault When Researching “Ethical Subjects” (2014) Qualitative Research in Psychology, 11 (2), pp. 142-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2013.853853 Abstract This article attempts to address a novel dilemma the author recently faced when undertaking qualitative psychological research into sustainable tourism. The article embraces notions of reflexivity …

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