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

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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Foucault Studies Number 35, December 2023 Special Issue: Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Special Issue Introduction Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times Annika Skoglund, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Fabiana Jardim, David Armstrong Governmentality, Science and the Media. Examining the “Pandemic Reality” with Foucault, Lyotard and Baudrillard Jean-Paul Sarrazin, Fabián Aguirre Securing the …

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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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