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

John Roberts, Testing the limits of structuration theory in accounting research (2013) Critical Perspectives on Accounting., Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 135-141 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2012.12.002 Abstract In 1985 I published a paper in Accounting Organizations and Society with Bob Scapens titled ‘Accounting Systems and Systems of Accountability; understanding accounting practices in their organisational contexts’. The paper suggested …

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Jason Schaub, Roger Dalrymple, Surveillance and silence: New considerations in assessing difficult social work placements (2013) Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning, 11 (3), pp. 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1921/jpts.v11i3.279 Abstract Studies to date have highlighted a number of key factors in the assessment of difficult social work placements including the need for adequate professional formation; communication; the …

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Raúl Sánchez García and Antonio Rivero Herraiz, ‘Governmentality’ in the origins of European female PE and sport: The Spanish case study (1883-1936) Sport, Education and Society, 18 (4), 2013, pp. 494-510. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.601735 Abstract The purpose of the paper is twofold: (1) to contribute to the analysis of the origins of modern European female PE and …

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Jérôme Englebert Some evidence for a psychopathological consideration on psychopathy: Part I [Quelques éléments en faveur d’une réflexion psychopathologique sur la psychopathie : Première partie] (2013) Annales Medico-Psychologiques, 171 (3), pp. 141-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2012.05.025 Jérôme Englebert Some evidence for a psychopathological consideration on psychopathy: Part II [Quelques éléments en faveur d’une réflexion psychopathologique sur la psychopathie …

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Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 16 A Special Issue on Foucault and Feminism guest edited by Cressida J. Heyes Issue 16 also includes: 3 original articles on the topics of: Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche’s notion of power Foucault, Althusser and the Marxist tradition Stultitia and patient education. 10 book reviews …

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materiali foucaultiani Volume II, number 3 (January-June 2013) ISSN 2239-5962 See site for full texts of articles TABLE OF CONTENTS Michel Foucault: un phénomène de bibliothèque? Spunti di riflessione a partire da un’installazione di Joseph Kosuth  (pp. 3-9) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli Foucault e la letteratura Introduzione. Sulle ragioni di una …

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Ritu Birla, Maine (and Weber) Against the Grain: Towards a Postcolonial Genealogy of the Corporate Person (2013) Journal of Law and Society, 40 (1), pp. 92-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00614.x Abstract This essay forges ties between postcolonial methodologies and the economic sociology of law, emphasizing the history, legal production, and governmental habitus of that modern abstraction called ‘the …

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Julian Brigstocke, Artistic Parrhesia and the Genealogy of Ethics in Foucault and Benjamin (2013) Theory, Culture and Society, 30 (1), pp. 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412450467 Abstract In The Use of Pleasure, Michel Foucault suggests that it is possible to read Walter Benjamin’s writings on Baudelaire as a contribution to a genealogy of ethics. This article experiments with …

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Frédéric GROS, “Foucault et « la société punitive »”, Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°135, 135 – La Prison, p.5-14.  URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/Foucault-et-la-societe-punitive.html The full text of this article is available on the “Nouveau millénaire, Défis libertaires” site Surveiller et Punir de Michel Foucault , publié en 1975, constitue sans aucun doute une des plus …

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