Foucault News

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

Rose-Redwood, Reuben (2012). “With Numbers in Place: Security, Territory, and the Production of Calculable Space”. Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 102 (2), 295-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2011.620503 Abstract Recent geographical scholarship on the politics of calculation has led to a reevaluation of the role of statistics, census-taking, and mapping as calculative techniques that have been …

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Boedeltje, Freerk (2012). “The Other Spaces of Europe: Seeing European Geopolitics Through the Disturbing Eye of Foucault’s heterotopias”. Geopolitics , 17 (1), 1-24. DOI:10.1080/14650045.2010.504762 Abstract Despite the fact that Europe and the EU are two different concepts, they increasingly seem confused within EU policy discourse. By means of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the EU …

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Reardon, Jenny (2012). “The Democratic, Anti-Racist Genome? Technoscience at the Limits of Liberalism”. Science as culture , 21 (1), 25-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2011.565322 Abstract The opening decade of this millennium witnessed genome scientists, policy makers, critical race theorists and world leaders standing together to pronounce the anti-racist democratic potential of human genomics. Understanding and assessing this rise …

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Rajkovic, Nikolas M. (2012). “‘Global law’ and governmentality: Reconceptualizing the ‘rule of law’ as rule ‘through’ law”. European journal of international relations , 18 (1), 29-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066110380966 Abstract This article challenges the optimism common to liberal IR and IL scholarship on the ‘rule of law’ in global governance. It argues that the concept of the …

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Ojakangas, M. (2012). “Michel Foucault and the enigmatic origins of bio-politics and governmentality”. History of the human sciences , 25 (1), pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111426654 Abstract Even a superficial look at the classical ideas and practices of government of populations makes it immediately apparent that there is a peculiarity in Foucault’s genealogy of western bio-politics and …

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Ferlie, Ewan; Mcgivern Gerry; FitzGerald Louise (2012). “A new mode of organizing in health care? Governmentality and managed networks in cancer services in England”. Social science & medicine (1982) , 74 (3), p. 340-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.021 Abstract We explore the argument that a new mode of health care organizing is emerging which moves beyond the established …

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Niesche, Richard, Haase Malcom (2012). “Emotions and Ethics: A Foucauldian framework for becoming an ethical educator”. Educational philosophy and theory , 44 (3), p. 276-88. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00655.x Abstract This paper provides examples of how a teacher and a principal construct their ethical selves. In doing so we demonstrate how Foucault’s four-part ethical framework can be …

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Drazenovich, George (2012). “A Foucauldian Analysis of Homosexuality”. Educational philosophy and theory, 44 (3), pp. 259-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00653.x Abstract The present research paper approaches homosexuality from a Foucauldian perspective. Foucault’s place and standing in a postmodern historical and cultural context will be explained. The paper outlines how homosexuality has been historically constructed and socially constituted. How …

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Thomas, Andrea S. (2012). “Michel de Ghelderode, the Wooster Group, and postmodernist revisions of La tentation de saint Antoine”.  Orbis litterarum , 67 (2), p. 136-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0730.2011.01046.x Abstract La tentation de saint Antoine initially recalls Hieronymus Bosch’s famous Renaissance painting or Flaubert’s onieric work-in-progress. A closer look at more recent adaptations of the story of Saint Anthony …

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