Foucault News

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

Vito De Lucia, Beyond anthropocentrism and ecocentrism: a biopolitical reading of environmental law, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 8 No. 2, September 2017, pp. 181–202 https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2017.02.01 Abstract The ‘rise of ecosystem regimes’ is increasingly seen as the key for the resolution of the unfolding ecological crises that are the mark of the …

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Garlen, J.C., Hembruff, S.L. Children as ‘difference makers’: viral discourses of childhood innocence and activism in #Blacklivesmatter (2022) Children’s Geographies, . DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2022.2142037 Abstract Viral images on social media during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 brought heightened attention to the debate over children’s political participation. Therefore, our inquiry sought to discover what the …

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Rana, T., Lowe, A., Azam, M.S. Green governmentality and climate change risk management: the case of a regulatory reform in Bangladesh (2022) Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal DOI: 10.1108/AAAJ-05-2021-5286 Abstract Purpose: This study examines green investment reforms carried out in Bangladesh. The reform process curated significant changes by promoting green investment and fostering the adoption …

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Nesbet, Anne, Discipline Made Visible: Abram Room’s The Ghost That Never Returns and the Fantastic Origins of Foucault’s Panopticon (2023) Russian Review, DOI: 10.1111/russ.12397 ABSTRACT: In 1967 Abram Room’s film, The Ghost That Never Returns (1929), traveled to the Cinémathèque de Toulouse (France) and was conspicuously featured in the following year at a major festival …

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Christofidou, A., Milioni, D.L. Art heterotopias against hegemonic discourses: Dancing the Cyprus conflict (2022) European Journal of Cultural Studies DOI: 10.1177/13675494221118385 Abstract We provide an analysis of dance as a practice and an ‘Other’ space; a counter-hegemonic ‘space’, which is affected by the existing social ordering, while simultaneously resisting it. We employ Foucault’s concept of …

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Tebkew, M., Atinkut, H.B. Impact of forest decentralization on sustainable forest management and livelihoods in East Africa (2022) Trees, Forests and People, 10, art. no. 100346 DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100346 Abstract The paper examines how forest decentralization affects forest management and sustainable livelihoods in East Africa. For this review, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania were chosen as …

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Diego Andreucci, Christos Zografos, Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change, Political Geography, Volume 92, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102512. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629821001724) Abstract: In this article, we argue that othering is central to the government of climate change. Critically engaging with Foucault’s ideas on biopolitics and racism, we elaborate a conceptual perspective for analysing …

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Luke, T.W. Investment and Rapid Climate Change as Biopolitics: Foucault and Governance of the Self and Others through ESG. Sustainability 2022, 14, 14974. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214974 Abstract: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies today are an established practice in personal and public finance. They also provide crucial benchmarks for corporate social responsibility policy in gauging the …

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Mooney, J. Personal narratives, public risk: using Foucault’s ‘confessional’ to examine adult retrospective disclosures of childhood abuse (2023) Health, Risk and Society, . DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2023.2166019 Abstract Disclosure of childhood sexual abuse is a process that is often laden with boundary testing, decision-making and, at times, risk. Disclosures tend to be delayed, often into adulthood and …

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Schweyer, M. (2022). Généalogie du gouvernement de la famille: Foucault et l’histoire politique de l’autorité familiale. Archives de Philosophie, 85, 89-107. https://doi.org/10.3917/aphi.854.0089 Résumé À la fin de Surveiller et Punir, Foucault indique qu’il faudrait étudier les débats révolutionnaires sur le droit des parents à faire enfermer leurs enfants, pour prolonger son analyse de la discipline …

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