Foucault News

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

Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, A. (2011). Organizations as Discursive Constructions: A Foucauldian Approach. Organization Studies, 32(9), 1247-1271. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840611411395 Abstract A growing body of literature suggests that communication constitutes organizations, but this argument requires refinement to address its remaining flaws. This essay suggests the tremendous potential of using Michel Foucault’s work to grasp the underlying meaning of this argument …

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Tarver, E.C. (2011), New Forms of Subjectivity: Theorizing the Relational Self with Foucault and Alcoff. Hypatia, 26: 804-825. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01235.x Abstract Taking seriously Linda Martin Alcoff’s suggestion that we reevaluate the extent to which poststructuralist articulations of the subject are truly socially constituted, as well as the centrality of Latina identity to her own account of …

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Evans, Patrick. (2011). “Modernity and the Holocaust counter-memorial: Janet Frame’s American fiction”. Journal of Commonwealth literature (0021-9894), 46 (3), p. 513. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989411409800 Abstract Janet Frame’s novels Intensive Care (1970/1987), Daughter Buffalo (1972), and Living in the Maniototo (1979) were written in the United States and, like her final novel, The Carpathians (1988), in part set …

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Beyes, T., & Michels, C. (2011). The production of educational space: Heterotopia and the business university. Management Learning, 42(5), 521-536. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507611400001 Abstract: This article responds to recent calls for rethinking management education and fostering a spatial understanding of educational practices. We propose to introduce Foucault’s notion of heterotopic space and the spatial thought of Lefebvre …

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Linda Graham, (2011), The Product of Text and ‘Other’ Statements: Discourse analysis and the critical use of Foucault. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43: 663-674. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00698.x Abstract Much has been written on Michel Foucault’s reluctance to clearly delineate a research method, particularly with respect to genealogy (Harwood, 2000; Meadmore, Hatcher & McWilliam, 2000; Tamboukou, 1999). Foucault …

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Mary Gibson, Review Essay: Global Perspectives on the Birth of the Prison, The American Historical Review, Vol. 116, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 1040-1063 https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.116.4.1040 In a review essay, “Global Perspectives on the Birth of the Prison,” Mary Gibson surveys the globalization of prison history since the turn of the twenty-first century by focusing on …

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Fadil, Nadia, Not-/unveiling as an ethical practice, Feminist Review, no.98, July 2011, 83-109 https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2011.12 Abstract The practice of Islamic veiling has over the last ten years emerged into a popular site of investigation. Different researchers have focused on the various significations of this bodily practice, both in its gendered dimensions, its identity components, its empowering …

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Aut Aut. Foucault e la “Storia della follia” (1961-2011), no. 351, July-September 2011 MATERIALI 1 Michel Foucault “Non esiste cultura senza follia” [1961] Frédéric Gros Nota sulla “Storia della follia” Daniel Defert L’altra scena della pittura Pier Aldo Rovatti “Sarai un malato di mente” (una risposta ai detrattori di Foucault) Mario Colucci La storia negata …

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Birkin, Frank and Thomas Polesie (2011). “An Epistemic Analysis of (Un)Sustainable Business”. Journal of business ethics , 103 (2), pp. 239-253 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-0863-4 Abstract Michel Foucault famously analysed orders of knowledge, ‘epistemes’, in past European ages. In this study, his analytical method is fruitfully applied to gaining a better understanding of business sustainability within and beyond …

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Taylor, Chloe, Disciplinary Relations/Sexual Relations: Feminist and Foucauldian Reflections on Professor–Student Sex. Hypatia, 26: 187–206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01143.x Abstract Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings as well as the writings of feminist scholars bell hooks and Jane Gallop, this paper examines faculty–student sexual relations and the discourses and policies that surround them. It argues that the dominant discourses …

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