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

Bernal Marcos, M.J., Zittoun, T., Gillespie, A. Diaries as Technologies for Sense-making and Self-transformation in Times of Vulnerability (2023) Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science DOI: 10.1007/s12124-023-09765-0 Abstract Diaries have been generally understood as “windows” on sense-making processes when studying life ruptures. In this article, we draw on Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of self-writing as a “technology …

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He, L. A sociological (Re)construction of the reflexive self: A convergence between Foucault and classical Confucian ethics (2023) Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 64 (2), pp. 279-291. DOI: 10.1111/apv.12370 Abstract The emergence of a body of work on ethics since the 1990s with a special interest in the self in the Western academia, inspired by Michel Foucault’s …

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Boucher, L. The proliferation of men’s sheds in Australia: the problematization of masculinity in a neoliberal regime (2023) Cultural Studies DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2023.2169731 Abstract Men’s sheds emerged in Australia with a promise to restore men to health and happiness through the provision of a gender-exclusive communal space and access to ‘traditional’ masculine activities. This article traces …

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Holt, R., Wiedner, R. Technology, Maturity, and Craft: Making Vinyl Records in the Digital Age (2023) Business Ethics Quarterly, 33 (3), pp. 532-564. DOI: 10.1017/beq.2022.26 Abstract Drawing from Michel Foucault’s reading of Immanuel Kant’s essay What is Enlightenment?, and specifically his definition of ascesis, we associate maturity with a capacity for, and interest in, forming …

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James, K., Elliott, S. Student-Led Cricket Matches as a Product of Coaching/Mentoring An Autoethnographic Account (2023) Boyhood Studies, 16 (1), pp. 40-64. DOI: 10.3167/bhs.2023.160104 Abstract Using a historical, autoethnographic approach in this article, we discuss six student-led cricket matches that we organized in Perth, Australia, from 1979 to 1981. From a Foucauldian perspective, we present …

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Michel Foucault et la théologie politique. Sous la direction de Agustín Colombo, Laval théologique et philosophique, Volume 79, numéro 3, 2023, p. 327-497, Diffusion numérique : 13 novembre 2023 Dossier Liminaire — Michel Foucault et la théologie politique : un rapport problématique Agustín Colombo et Jean Leclercq Théologie politique et pouvoir pastoral : Foucault contre …

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Tilleczek, William. “On the Ownership of the Means of Training: Domination, Asceticism, and Capacities of Resistance.” Theory & Event 26, no. 4 (2023): 701-726. https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2023.a909213. Abstract: This article argues that asceticism—understood in the etymological sense of “training”—can productively be incorporated into analyses of politics. It is of particular use in thinking through questions of inequality …

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Dean, J. From solidarity to self-promotion? Neoliberalism and left politics in the age of the social media influencer (2023) Capital and Class DOI: 10.1177/03098168231199907 Abstract The aim of this article is to map the contested intersections of influencer culture and left/progressive politics within the current conjuncture. Furthermore, drawing on a combination of Gramscian and Foucaultian …

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Stewart Clegg and Johan Ninan, Unravelling governmentality in project ecologies (2023) Project Leadership and Society, 4, DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2023.100099 Abstract Under the rubric of project governance, governmentality has been defined as a general mode of governing people in projects, whether these projects are organized in an authoritarian, liberal, or neo-liberal mode in their approach to authority …

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Turnbull, M. Assembling the Crisis of COVID-19 in Australia: A Foucauldian Analysis of Prime Ministerial Press Conferences in March 2020 (2023) Genealogy, 7 (3) DOI: 10.3390/genealogy7030066 Abstract In this article, I present a Foucauldian analysis of the speeches made by the then Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Scott Morrison) in March 2020. This analysis sets …

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