Foucault News

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

Les néolibéralismes de Michel Foucault, Raisons politiques, N° 52, 2013/4, 172 pages. Special Issue https://shs.cairn.info/revue-raisons-politiques-2013-4 Présentation En 1979, Michel Foucault prononce un cours au Collège de France intitulé “Naissance de la biopolitique”. Cet ensemble de leçons propose un examen du néolibéralisme allemand (Ordolibéralisme) et américain (École de Chicago). Foucault, dans ce cadre, propose des constructions …

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Magnus Dahlstedt and Andreas Fejes, Family makeover: coaching, confession and parental responsibilisation (2013) Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 22(2), 169–188. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2013.812136 Abstract Today, there is a widespread idea that parents need to learn how to carry out their roles as parents. Practices of parental learning operate throughout society. This article deals with one particular practice of …

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Natasha Saltes, ‘Abnormal’ Bodies on the Borders of Inclusion: Biopolitics and the Paradox of Disability Surveillance, Surveillance and Society, Vol 11, No 1/2 (2013) https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v11i1/2.4460 Abstract When conducted according to the biomedical definition of disability, ‘disability surveillance’ involves monitoring bodies against normative ontological standards, classifying ‘abnormality’ and problematizing ‘abnormal bodies’ as risky. While disability surveillance …

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Katie R. Place and Jennifer Vardeman-Winter, Hegemonic discourse and self-discipline: Exploring Foucault’s concept of bio-power among public relations professionals, Public Relations Inquiry September 2013 vol. 2 no. 3, 305-325 https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X13494965 Abstract This qualitative study of 20 public relations practitioners examines power in public relations through the lens of bio-power – the control and management of …

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CFP, Itineration, Special Edition Call for Projects: Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture Special Edition: Privacy and Dataveillance Due February 1, 2014 The special edition, Privacy and Dataveillance Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture invites projects that engage questions of data collection and dataveillance. Some possible areas of inquiry may include, …

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Bath, C. Conceptualising listening to young children as an ethic of care in early childhood education and care (2013) Children and Society, 27 (5), pp. 361-371. Further info Abstract This paper focuses on recent discourses and practices of listening to young children, in order to highlight listening as an ethical practice in early childhood education …

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Shira Wolosky, Foucault at School: Discipline, Education and Agency in Harry Potter, Children’s Literature in Education, 45, 285–297 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-013-9215-6 Abstract The formative power of children’s literature is both great and suspicious. As a resource of socialization, the construction and experience of children’s literature can be seen as modes of disciplinary coercion such as Michel …

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Florence Hulak, « Michel Foucault, la philosophie et les sciences humaines : jusqu’où l’histoire peut-elle être foucaldienne ? », Tracés. Revue de Sciences humaines [En ligne], #13 | 2013, mis en ligne le 21 octobre 2013, https://doi.org/10.4000/traces.5718 Résumé L’œuvre de Michel Foucault a pu être lue comme inaugurant une pratique révolutionnaire de l’histoire. Toutefois, les …

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Elisabeth Chaves, The Art of Not Being Quite So Governed: An Examination of the Work of the “Critical” Journal (2013) New Political Science, 35 (3), pp. 507-521. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2013.813702 Abstract Michel Foucault in his lecture “What is Critique?” argues that criticism offered a response to the state’s developing art of governing in the fifteenth and sixteenth …

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Anna Anderson, The critical purchase of genealogy: Critiquing student participation projects (2013) Discourse. Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2013.828417 Abstract Until recently the dominant critique of ‘student participation’ projects was one based on the theoretical assumptions of critical theory in the form of critical pedagogy. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of a critical …

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