Foucault News

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

Yang, X., Hu, N. #girls help girls#: feminist discussions and affective heterotopia in patriarchal China (2023) Feminist Media Studies DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2023.2229967 Abstract In June 2021, a girl named Du Meizhu revealed on Weibo (Chinese Twitter) of having been emotionally and sexually abused by the top-tier idol Kris Wu. The incident gained publicity over the month …

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Hilt, R. Gifted and On the Move: The Impact of Losing the Gifted Label for Military Connected Students (2023) Journal for the Education of the Gifted DOI: 10.1177/01623532231180882 Abstract Society is becoming increasingly mobile, which impacts all facets of the educational experience, including gifted education. Military students attend several different schools in their educational careers, …

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Kutay, A. From Social Sphere to Intermediary Association: A Critical Analysis of Civil Society’s Neoliberal Transformation (2023) Critical Sociology DOI: 10.1177/08969205231180263 Abstract In this paper, I examine the neoliberal transformation of civil society through Mitchel Foucault’s insights concerning knowledge, power, and governmentality. The objective of this paper is to trace the evolving understandings of civil …

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Nyman, S., Bødker, M., Blegind Jensen, T. Reforming work patterns or negotiating workloads? Exploring alternative pathways for digital productivity assistants through a problematization lens (2023) Journal of Information Technology, DOI: 10.1177/02683962231181602 Abstract Digital trace data can be used to capture organizational practices in granular detail and enable the automation of a wide range of managerial …

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Franziska Humphreys, « L’histoire des idées au prisme de ses traductions. L’exemple de la Medientheorie (Heidegger/Foucault/Kittler) », Revue des sciences humaines 350 | 2023, 93-104. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rsh/2224 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/rsh.2224 Introduction Les pratiques des sciences humaines s’inscrivent aujourd’hui dans des espaces transnationaux et ne se laissent plus limiter à un seul domaine linguistique. …

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Armstrong, L. (2023). Understanding reform discourses in complex times of change: Positions and practices of early childhood professionals from Victorian kindergarten settings. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood https://doi.org/10.1177/18369391231212686 Abstract Australian early childhood education and care [ECEC] has faced a series of change and reform since 2009, including the introduction and later revisions of key curriculum …

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Di Cimbrini, T., Musella, A. M., & Corsi, C. (2023). Accounting for and of the epidemic in Bologna in 1855: The medicus-politicus in the Papal States. Accounting History, https://doi.org/10.1177/10323732231205646 Abstract This study investigates the confluence between accounting and natural disasters by examining the case of the cholera epidemic that occurred in Bologna in 1855, a …

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Navazhylava, K., Peticca Harris, A., Elias, S.R.S.T.A. YouTube’s Yoga with Adriene as a somametamnemata: Exploring experiences of self-care and wellness in times of crisis (2023) Organization, 30 (3), pp. 573-596. DOI: 10.1177/13505084221145543 Abstract Drawing on the Foucauldian technologies of the self, this study explores how individuals re-envision practices of wellbeing outside of traditional organizational contexts …

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Chicolino, Martín, Las violencias masculinas en la psico-sexo política de Michel Foucault. Brujas, posesas, locas, intersexuales y prostitutas, Nuevo Pensamiento 13 (22). https://p3.usal.edu.ar/index.php/nuevopensamiento/article/view/6829 Open access Resumen En torno a la teoría del poder foucaultiana sobrevuela una recriminación, aún vigente: Foucault habría problematizado la sexualidad desde la perspectiva de un sujeto indiferenciado y de género neutro. …

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Kurtuluş, G., & Demİrcan Yildirim, P. (2023). Türkiye’de kadin kooperatiflerine siyasi iktidarin gözünden bakmak: feminist postyapisalci bir analiz. Memleket Siyaset Yönetim, 18(40), 441-460. https://doi.org/10.56524/msydergi.1352548 English title and abstract below Öz Türkiye’de yirmi yılı aşkın süredir hem siyasi hem de sivil alanda özellikle kadının güçlendirilmesi retoriği ile ilişkili kadın kooperatiflerine olan ilginin arttığı gözlenmektedir. Kadınların ekonomik …

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