Foucault News

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

Jerzy Stachowiak. Studia socjologiczne , (1), 2012, p. 93. https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/427993 Abstract The article aims at presenting two opposite socio-philosophical stances, to which most of research on power within the framework of discourse studies can be attributed. These outlooks are represented by the names of Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. The discussion between these intellectuals constitutes …

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Joshua J. Kurz, (Dis)locating Control: Transmigration, Precarity and the Governmentality of Control, Behemoth: A Journal on Civilization, Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 30–51, June 2012 https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/behemoth.2012.004 Abstract In this essay, the author takes up William Walters’ (2006) incitement to theorize transmigration through the Deleuzian concept of control. The importance of mechanisms, or technologies, that modulate …

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O’Byrne, P. (2012). “Population Health and Social Governance: Analyzing the Mainstream Incorporation of Ethnography”. Qualitative health research , 22 (6), pp. 859-67. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732311425049 Abstract Recently, health care workers (researchers, academics, policy writers, clinicians) have begun to view ethnography as an acceptable research methodology for informing public health work. This corresponds with a change in public …

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Sakellariou, Dikaios (2012). “Sexuality and Disability: A Discussion on Care of the Self”. Sexuality and disability , 30 (2), p. 187-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-011-9219-3 Abstract The aim of this article is to bring together the notions of sexuality, disability and care of the self. This is done by illustrating the importance of care of the self and …

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Youatt, R. (2012). “Power, Pain, and the Interspecies Politics of Foie Gras”. Political research quarterly , 65 (2), pp. 346-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912911398049 Abstract This article examines the practices, logics, and politics of foie gras production and consumption. It argues that scholars need to rethink both pain and sentience to account for the fact that ducks are responsive, …

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McConnell, Fiona (2012). “Governmentality to practise the state? Constructing a Tibetan population in exile”. Environment and planning. D, Society & space, 30 (1), p. 78-95. https://doi.org/10.1068/d0711 Abstract Drawing on the extraterritorial and nonstate centric form of power found in Foucault’s notion of governmentality, I contribute to three emerging debates: the extent to which governmentality is …

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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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