Foucault News

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

Shaw, J. The Birth of the Clinic and the Advent of Reproduction: Pregnancy, Pathology and the Medical Gaze in Modernity, Body and Society, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 110-138 https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X10394 Abstract In conjunction with the growing feminist literature on pregnancy and visualization, this paper uses Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic to demonstrate …

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Baldacchino, G. Governmentality is all the rage: The strategy games of small jurisdictions, Round Table, Volume 101, Issue 3, June 2012, Pages 235-251 https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2012.690964 Abstract This paper discusses the contemporary sovereignty experience of small states and territories in the context of unfolding ‘strategy games’. This paper charts and illustrates some of the most salient issues …

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Natanel, K. Resistance at the limits: Feminist activism and conscientious objection in Israel, Feminist Review, Volume 101, Issue 1, July 2012, Pages 78-96 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41495234 Abstract This article investigates the relationship between feminism and conscientious objection in Israel, evaluating the efficacy of feminist resistance in the organised refusal movement. While recent feminist scholarship on peace, anti-occupation …

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McKinlay, A.A , Wilson, J.B ‘All they lose is the scream’: Foucault, Ford and mass production, Management and Organizational History, Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 45-60 https://doi.org/10.1177/1744935911427219 Abstract Henry Ford insisted that his development of mass production owed nothing to Taylorism. But Ford and Taylor can only be understood as part of a …

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Little, J. Transformational Tourism, Nature and Wellbeing: New Perspectives on Fitness and the Body, Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 2012, Pages 257-271 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9523.2012.00566.x Abstract Historical studies of rural recreation and wellbeing have drawn attention to the role of nature and the countryside in the development of ideas surrounding notions of fitness as a …

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Dean, Mitchell, Governmentality Meets Theology: ‘The King Reigns, but He Does Not Govern’, Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 29, Issue 3, May 2012, Pages 145-158 Review of The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government by Giorgio Agamben, trans. Lorenzo Chiesa (with Matteo Mandarini) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011 …

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Foucault, une politique de la vérité, Cahiers Philosophiques,  n°130/3ème trimestre 2012 Le Courage de la vérité est le dernier cours prononcé par Foucault au Collège de France durant l’année 1984. Celui-ci ne détermine pas le sens ultime de l’œuvre du philosophe pas plus qu’il ne déploie une totalisation unifiée de son parcours théorique. La parrêsia – le …

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Matthew Ball, Becoming a ‘Bastion Against Tyranny’: Australian Legal Education and the Government of the Self, Law and Critique 23 (2):103-122 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-012-9101-1 Abstract Research into legal education suggests that many students enter law school with ideals about using the law to achieve social change, but graduate with some cynicism regarding these ideals. It is …

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Michael Sheringham, Michel Foucault, Pierre Rivière and the Archival Imaginary’, Comparative Critical Studies 8.2–3 (2011): 235–257. https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2011.0021 Introduction Apart from his inaugural lecture, the first published fruits of Michel Foucault’s election to the Collège de France in 1970 derived from a seminar on the interaction of medical discourses and penal reform, which centred on the …

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Zhao, Guoping (2012). “The self and human freedom in Foucault and Zhuangzi” . Journal of Chinese philosophy , 39 (1), p. 139-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2012.01706.x Abstract Foucault and Zhuangzi share important insights on the role of knowledge practices play in the pursuit of human freedom. This article investigates Foucault’s discussion of the subjectivation truth games of the …

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