Foucault News

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

Roland Sintos Coloma, Ladlad and Parrhesiastic Pedagogy: Unfurling LGBT Politics and Education in the Global South (2013) Curriculum Inquiry, 43 (4), pp. 483-511. https://doi.org/10.1111/curi.12020 Abstract This article examines the political and educational activism of Ladlad, the first lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political party in the Philippines and the only existing LGBT political party …

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Fadyl, J.K., Nicholls, D.A., McPherson, K.M. Interrogating discourse: The application of Foucault’s methodological discussion to specific inquiry (2013) Health (United Kingdom), 17 (5), pp. 478-494. Abstract Discourse analysis following the work of Michel Foucault has become a valuable methodology in the critical analysis of a broad range of topics relating to health. However, it can …

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Nicolas Thirion, Des rapports entre droit et vérité selon Foucault : une illustration des interactions entre les pratiques juridiques et leur environnement, Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques, 2013/1 (Volume 70), pp. 180-88 Further info Premières lignes Les deux questions posées aux contributeurs de la présente livraison de la Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques sont d’une ampleur telle …

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Matthew Ball, Queer Criminology, Critique, and the “Art of Not Being Governed” (2013) Critical Criminology, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-013-9223-2 Abstract This article builds on previous work that argues that a useful path for a “queer/ed criminology” to follow is one that takes “queer” to denote a position. It suggests that one way of developing such an …

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Antoine Doré, L’exercice des biopolitiques Conditions matérielles et ontologiques de la gestion gouvernementale d’une population animale, Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances, 2013/4 (Vol. 7, n° 4), pp. 837-855 Full article À partir de ses recherches consacrées à l’histoire des formes de gouvernement dans les sociétés occidentales, Michel Foucault décrit une forme de pouvoir spécifique de la …

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Marianne Dortants and Annelies Knoppers, Regulation of diversity through discipline: Practices of inclusion and exclusion in boxing (2013) International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 48 (5), pp. 535-549. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690212445279 Abstract Boxing gyms in the Netherlands, which were traditionally bastions of ‘white’ men, have become more and more diverse. Since boxers with different ethnic backgrounds …

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Wachs, F.L., Chase, L.F. Explaining the failure of an obesity intervention: Combining Bourdieu’s symbolic violence and the Foucault’s microphysics of power to reconsider state interventions (2013) Sociology of Sport Journal, 30 (2), pp. 111-131. Full pdf Abstract This paper explains the failure of an obesity intervention funded by a Carol M. White U.S. Department of …

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Alberto Fragio, Blumenberg y Foucault: El análisid del poder pastoral como un ensayo de metaforología política, Universitas Philosophica. 2013, vol.30, n.60, pp. 83-98. ISSN 0120-5323. Full PDF Resumen En el verano de 1960 Foucault hubo de escribir a Blumenbergcon motivo de la organización de una conferencia en laUniversidad de Hamburgo a cargo de Maurice de Gandillac.La …

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Antoine Garapon, Michel Foucault, visionnaire du droit contemporain, Raisons politiques, 2013/4 (N° 52), pp. 39-49 https://doi.org/10.3917/rai.052.0039 Garapon, A. (2013). Michel Foucault: Visionary Insight Into Contemporary Law. Raisons politiques, No 52(4), 39-49. https://doi.org/10.3917/rai.052.0039. Résumé Cet article analyse les mutations contemporaines du droit. Il constate une évolution paradoxaledes pratiques juridiques néolibérales « à l’ombre du droit » …

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