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

L’Actualité Poitou-Charentes n°99 : Michel Foucault, Moi, Pierre Rivière… Le numéro 99, janvier, février et mars 2013, de L’Actualité Poitou-Charentes, la revue trimestrielle éditée par l’Espace Mendès France, vient de paraître. Édito Si Michel Foucault est au cœur de cette édition de L’Actualité, ce n’est pas le fait du hasard. Deux dossiers ont déjà été …

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Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 15 A Special Issue on Foucault and Religion guest edited by John McSweeney Issue 15 also includes: An interview with James Bernauer, three original articles on the topics of parrhêsia, the US/Mexico border and the usefulness of Kant’s writings for Foucault’s genealogical efforts to free …

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Theresa Bourke, Mary Ryan, John Lidstone, Reclaiming professionalism for geography education: Defending our own territory, Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 28, Issue 7, October 2012, Pages 990–998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2012.05.005 Abstract In a world where governments increasingly attempt to impose regulation on all professional activities, this paper advocates that professional standards for teachers be developed ‘by the …

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Ganguly, A., Foucault, government and acts of obedience, Law, Culture and the Humanities, Volume 8, Issue 3, October 2012, Pages 448-465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872110392285 Abstract Conventional political writings influenced by Foucault emphasize how various kinds of coercive measures are hidden behind the veil of a justified government. Their investigations tell us what makes it possible for the …

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Stéphane Haber, Du néolibéralisme au néocapitalisme ? Quelques réflexions à partir de Foucault, Actuel Marx, Volume 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-72 In French and English http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/amx.051.0059 Résumé From Neoliberalism to Neocapitalism. Some Reflections Drawn from Foucault The article takes up Foucault’s analysis of neoliberalism in the 1970s. It begins by showing how this analysis …

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A Foucault News exclusive. Colin Gordon, A Note On “Becker On Ewald On Foucault On Becker” : American Neoliberalism And Michel Foucault’s 1979 Birth Of Biopolitics Lectures. A conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt” [1] This is a response to a discussion linked to earlier on this blog: American Neoliberalism and Michel …

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Schlosser, Jennifer A. (2013). “Bourdieu and Foucault: A Conceptual Integration Toward an Empirical Sociology of Prisons”. Critical criminology , p. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-012-9164-1 Abstract Although the similarities between them are under analyzed, Pierre Bourdieu’s and Michel Foucault’s theories of culture and power are interrelated in some compelling ways. Outline of a Theory of Practice (1977) and …

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Whitney Arnold, The Secret Subject: Michel Foucault, Death and the Labyrinth, and the Interview as Genre, Criticism, Volume 54, Number 4, Fall 2012 https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/crt.2012.0029 Extract My relationship to my book on Roussel, and to Roussel’s work, is something very personal. . . . I would go so far as to say that it doesn’t have …

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Seungho Moon, Disciplinary Images of “Korean-Ness”: Autobiographical Interrogations on the Panopticon, SAGE Open, July-September 2012 vol. 2 no. 3 https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012455649 Abstract The purpose of this study is to generate complicated conversations about identity and culture with an examination of various panoptic technologies, including separation, invisibility, control, and productivity. Drawn from Foucault’s panopticism, the author examines …

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Sardinha, Diogo (2012). “Le Kant de Foucault, une lecture téléologique de l’anthropologie”. Kant-Studien , 103 (3), pp. 361-9. further info Abstract: Foucault’s main thesis in his Introduction to Kant’s Anthropology is that the meaning of Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View can only be entirely grasped in the light of certain notes concerning the …

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