Foucault News

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

Holloway, Lewis (2011). “Choosing and rejecting cattle and sheep: changing discourses and practices of (de)selection in pedigree livestock breeding”. Agriculture and human values, 28 (4), pp. 533-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-010-9298-2 Abstract This paper examines the discourses and practices of pedigree livestock breeding, focusing on beef cattle and sheep in the UK, concentrating on an under-examined aspect of …

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Bonsu Samuel K. and Polsa Pia (2011). “Governmentality at the Base-of-the-Pyramid”. Journal of macromarketing, 31 (3), pp. 236-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276146711407506 Abstract The Base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) corporate strategy perceives market-based solutions to the problem of global poverty. The strategy is premised on the view that people in BoP markets live in fundamental lack, which can be overcome with …

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Steve Urbanski, The Identity Game: Michel Foucault’s Discourse-Mediated Identity as an Effective Tool for Achieving a Narrative-Based Ethic, The Open Ethics Journal, 2011, 5, 3-9 Open access pdf Abstract: This article examines in hermeneutic fashion the philosophy of Michel Foucault and isolates an identity matrix that can assist humans in navigating the often numerous and …

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Kalmbach Phillips, Donna (2011). “Biopower, disciplinary power, and the production of the ‘good Latino/a teacher’”. Discourse, 32 (1), p. 71. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2011.537074 Abstract This inquiry explores who is the ‘good teacher of color’. Through Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower and disciplinary power, the analysis attempts to problematize the subject-position of ‘teacher of color’ by exploring how …

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Wang, Chia-Ling (2011). “Power/Knowledge for Educational Theory: Stephen Ball and the Reception of Foucault”. Journal of philosophy of education, 45 (1), p. 141. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00789.x Abstract This paper explores the significance of the concept of power/knowledge in educational theory. The argument proceeds in two main parts. In the first, I consider aspects of Stephen J. Ball’s …

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Hardy, Nick (2011). “Foucault, Genealogy, Emergence: Re-Examining The Extra-Discursive”. Journal for the theory of social behaviour, 41 (1), p. 68. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2010.00446.x Abstract This paper offers an alternative theorization of a well known account of restructured social relations-Foucault’s analysis of the production of “delinquency” in Discipline and Punish. The paper argues that in his later “genealogical” …

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Mendel, Maria (2011). “Heterotopias of Homelessness: Citizenship on the Margins”. Studies in philosophy and education, 30 (2), p. 155-68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-011-9226-y Abstract The concept of heterotopia challenges political theory, which has often focused on utopic thinking. Foucault describes a heterotopia as a heterogenous space that juxtaposes in a single real place several spaces, several sites that …

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Anderson, Ben (2011). “Population and Affective Perception: Biopolitics and Anticipatory Action in US Counterinsurgency Doctrine”. Antipode, 43 (2), p. 205-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00804.x Abstract This paper analyses the biopolitical logics of current US counterinsurgency doctrine in the context of the multiple forms of biopower that make up the “war on terror”. It argues that counterinsurgency doctrine aims …

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Schmidt, James (2011). “Misunderstanding the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’: Venturi, Habermas, and Foucault”. History of European ideas, 37 (1), p. 43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2010.08.002 Abstract In his 1969 Trevelyan Lectures, Franco Venturi argued that Kant’s response to the question “What is Enlightenment?” has tended to promote a “philosophical interpretation” of the Enlightenment that leads scholars away from …

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Jenkins, Laura (2011). “The Difference Genealogy Makes: Strategies for Politicisation or How to Extend Capacities for Autonomy”. Political studies, 59 (1), p. 156-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00844.x Abstract Processes of politicisation and depoliticisation have become the empirical and theoretical focus for a growing body of political studies. However, the disparate literatures on these processes conceptualise and explore them …

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