Allen, A. (2012) Using Foucault in education research, British Educational Research Association on-line resource. Michel Foucault is frequently cited in educational research. Care should, nevertheless, be taken when reading work that makes use of Foucault as interpretations of Foucault’s ideas vary almost as widely as the uses to which they are put. This resource, designed …
Carlsson, P. Foucault, Magritte and negative theology beyond representation (2013) Studia Theologica – Nordic Journal of Theology. Published online: 20 Feb 2013 https://doi.org/10.1080/0039338X.2012.733729 Abstract Recent theological writings on the French philosopher Michel Foucault often mention Foucault in relation to negative theology. This article discusses the negative motion in Foucauldian thinking through Foucault’s essay on the Belgian painter …
Oels, A.(2013), Rendering climate change governable by risk: From probability to contingency Geoforum, 45, pp. 17-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.09.007 Abstract In this paper, I use Foucault’s concept of governmentality to investigate changes in the risk management of climate change. In an exploratory analysis of primary and secondary sources, I demonstrate that the risk construction of climate change has shifted significantly …
David Nowell Smith, Surfaces: Painterly illusion, metaphysical depth, Paragraph, Volume 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 389-406 https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2012.0066 Abstract This essay analyses the way in which the relation between surface and depth in modern painting is endowed with philosophical significance in the work of Michel Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Henry. Whereas Foucault considered the work …
Marnia Lazreg, Poststructuralist theory and women in the Middle East: Going in circles? (2013) Contemporary Arab Affairs, 6 (1), pp. 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2012.757884 Abstract This article examines the effects of the uncritical use of the poststructuralist Foucauldian theoretical approach on studies of Middle Eastern women and gender. Focusing on the twin concepts of ’empowerment’ and ‘resistance’ …
Teresa Macias, ‘Tortured bodies’: The biopolitics of torture and truth in Chile (2013) International Journal of Human Rights, 17 (1), pp. 113-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.701912 Abstract In the same way that torture has become a common and privileged instrument of war and political repression, and a regular occurrence of our time, so, too, has the question of …
Burke A. Hendrix, Where should we expect social change in non-ideal theory? (2013) Political Theory, 41 (1), pp. 116-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591712463201 Abstract This essay considers the relationship between ideal theory and non-ideal theory. It begins with Rawls’s conception of ideal theory and A. John Simmons’s articulation of non-ideal theory. Both defend the priority of ideal theory …
Eva Vakirtzi, Phil Bayliss, Towards a Foucauldian Methodology in the Study of Autism: Issues of Archaeology, Genealogy, and Subjectification (2013) Journal of Philosophy of Education Volume 47, Issue 3, pages 364–378. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12004 Abstract The remarkable increase in diagnoses of autism has paralleled an increase in scientific research and turned the syndrome into a kind of …
Alissa Overend, Candida, food discipline and the dietary taming of uncertainty (2013) Food, Culture and Society, 16 (1), pp. 145-160. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174413X13500468045560 Abstract Discourses of nutritional health are strongly associated with illness, and have recently been linked to the prevalence and management of chronic undefined disorders. Using the case of Candida-a yeast-related disorder of vague symptomatology-I …
Dominik Bartmanski, How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault, European Journal of Social Theory, Volume 15, Issue 4, November 2012, Pages 427-453 https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431011423577 Abstract The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under …
Foucault News 