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

Kjærgaard, A., Bergmann, R., Blasco, M., Padan, T., Elliott, C., Callahan, J., Robinson, S., Wall, T. Subtle activism: Heterotopic principles for unsettling contemporary academia from within (2023) Organization DOI: 10.1177/13505084231167702 Abstract Research on academic activism tends to foreground vociferous and explicit forms of activism that pursue predefined political agendas. Against this backdrop, this article proposes …

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Chassagnol, A., Marie, C. Le musée du futur: imaginaire du musée dans la littérature contemporaine imagée, (2023) Culture et Musees, (41), pp. 119-149. DOI: 10.4000/culturemusees.9947 Abstract This article elaborates a poetic (in the ancient Greek sense of poesis) description of the future museum on the basis of the portrayal and fictionalization of museums in contemporary …

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Beukes, J. The current four volumes of Michel Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité: a review of the state of research, 2022 (2023) Acta Academica, 55 (1), pp. 125-145. DOI: 10.38140/aa.v55i1.6493 Abstract By providing a review of the present state of research regarding French historian of ideas Michel Foucault’s (1926-1984) current four-volume series Histoire de la …

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Eva Joyce, Rewilding tourism in the news: Power/knowledge and the Irish and UK news media discourses, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 104, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103718. Abstract: This study investigates how complex power relations shape the knowledge about rewilding tourism produced by the news media in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. A multi-level Foucauldian …

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Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball (04 Jan 2024): Without School: Education as Common(ing) Activities in Local Social Infrastructures – An Escape from Extinction Ethics, British Journal of Educational Studies DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2023.2298776 ABSTRACT In this third paper in a series of four, we explore some ways of doing education differently. An education that moves beyond …

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Lisa Borrelli and William Walters, Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, (2024) https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241232325 Abstract It is hard to imagine how deportation regimes could function without the threat or the exercise of force. Yet surprisingly a focus on forces and bodies, and more generally the question …

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Colombo, Agustín. 2023. «El quiasmo no ontológico de la carne. El enfoque de la subjetividad en las investigaciones tardías de Michel Foucault y su relación con Merleau-Ponty». Logos. Anales del Seminario de Metafísica 56, nº 2: 269-85. https://doi.org/10.5209/asem.88549 Resumen ¿De qué manera el problema de la carne permite analizar el vínculo que tiene el pensamiento …

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Peter W Shay, Precluding Critical Pedagogy: Ethical Democracy and the Tyranny of Functional Metrics, Visible Learning, and Data Surveillance, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Volume 21, Number 3, pp. 26-58 http://www.jceps.com/archives/16139 Open access Abstract Through a Foucauldian theoretical framework, this article contests the efficacy of the modern assessable and visible learning curriculum, and analyses …

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Burrows, L., Holden, D., Tynan, E. Untangling Maralinga: Spatial and Temporal Complexities of Australia’s Atomic Anthropocene (2023) Journal of Australian Studies, 47 (3), pp. 515-530. DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2199757 Abstract Reflecting on the atomic test sites in the South Australian desert, this article analyses the bisociation of cultural and historical spaces with geographical and geological formations. We …

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Papoli-Yazdi, L., Hogland, W. Wreckage Installation: Towards an Archaeology of Southern Sweden’s Heterotopias (2023) European Journal of Archaeology, 26 (2), pp. 189-208. DOI: 10.1017/eaa.2022.44 Abstract During a survey on the island of Öland in south-eastern Sweden, whose aim was to study the local waste-disposal practices, the authors recorded abandoned machinery and cars dating from the …

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