Radu, Carmen. 2011. “Governmentality and the Deportation of Eastern European Roma in Italy and France.” Student Pulse Academic Journal 3.04. Read online Abstract This case study asks the following question: given the symbol of the European Union as the ultimate supranational, rights-based, compliance-inducing international organization, why have member states France and Italy escaped punishment for …
Strausz, Erzsébet, ‘Foucault’s Critique: A Topology of Thought’, Law and Critique, March 2011, 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-011-9082-5 Abstract In order to elucidate some of the ways in which critique and subjectivity become inextricably linked in Foucault’s oeuvre, the paper proceeds first by briefly discussing the concept of critique as limit-attitude as it appears in some of Foucault’s …
Saul Newman, ‘Postanarchism and Power’, Journal of Power, Vol. 3, No. 2, August 2010, 259–274 https://doi.org/10.1080/17540291.2010.493704 Abstract This article develops a postanarchist conception of power by using Foucault to reveal some of the tensions and limitations within classical anarchist theory. As a Foucauldian poststructuralist analysis shows, the operation of power is more complex and constitutive …
Marcelo Hoffman, “Containments of the Unpredictable in Arendt and Foucault”, Telos 154 (Spring 2011). https://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0311154141 Abstract This article takes as its principal provocation Giorgio Agamben’s claim that Hannah Arendt’s analyses of totalitarianism do not obtain a biopolitical perspective and that, conversely, Michel Foucault’s analyses of biopolitics fall short of adequately addressing totalitarian states, thereby leaving …
The proceedings of the workshop on “Foucault and Utilitarianism” have just been released as a special issue in the bilingual Revue d’études benthamiennes. Summary In the 1970s, with the publication of Discipline and Punish, and with the development of his concept of discipline, Foucault put Bentham back on the map of academic study. However, Bentham …
The Volume 37 Issue 3, Spring 2011, issue of Critical Inquiry features an important new translation of an interview with Foucault with Jean Le Bitoux and includes articles by Jean Le Bitoux and David Halperin about the fascinating publishing history of this interview. Jean Le Bitoux and Michel Foucault, “The Gay Science,” First complete translation …
Veronique Voruz, Politics in Foucault’s later work: A philosophy of truth; or reformism in question, Theoretical Criminology March 4, 2011 vol. 15 no. 1, 47-65 https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480610380229 Abstract Drawing on Foucault’s late seminars this article contrasts political reformism, favoured in the English-speaking tradition of ‘Foucauldian’ criminology, with Foucault’s own ‘return’ to philosophy. Of late, given the …
Special Issue on Foucault and International Law 2012 marks Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL)’s 25th anniversary. Added 24 August 2012. Now published LJIL celebrates this Silver Jubilee with several initiatives, including a new prize. One of the highlights of LJIL volume 25 will be the special issue on Foucault and International Law. The Leiden …
Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 11 A Special Issue on Foucault and Pragmatism Guest Edited by Colin Koopman Foucault Studies is an electronic, open access, peer reviewed, international journal that provides a forum for scholarship engaging the intellectual legacy of Michel Foucault, interpreted in the broadest possible terms. We welcome …
Dianna Taylor, Countering Modernity: Foucault and Arendt on Race and Racism, Telos, 154 (Spring 2011): 119-140 https://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0311154119 Analysis of a possible intellectual affinity between philosopher Michel Foucault and political theorist Hannah Arendt is valuable in its own right, given the insight it offers into the work of these two important thinkers. At the same time, …
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