Foucault News

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

Critical global citizenship: Foucault as a complexity thinker, social justice and the challenges of higher education in the era of neo-liberal globalization – A conversation with Mark Olssen, Authors: Emiliano Bosio, Mark Olssen Citizenship Teaching & Learning, Volume 18, Issue Philosophical, Ethical and Pedagogical Visions of Global Citizenship Education: Critical Perspectives from International Educators, Jun …

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Melissa Pawelski, Michel Foucault’s Figure of les corps dociles Following a Critique of the Cartesian Cogito, French Studies Bulletin, Volume 43, Issue 164, Winter 2022, Pages 10–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/frebul/ktac017 Open access If we adhere to Michel Foucault’s argument that modern societies are governed by disciplinary power, we must take a critical stance on the Cartesian cogito, which …

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Dalgliesh, B. (2023). The idea of the university as a heterotopia: The ethics and politics of thinking in the age of informational capitalism. Thesis Eleven, 175(1), 81–107. https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136231169061 Abstract Drawing on struggles within academe between faculty that promote critical education and advocates of New Public Management (NPM) who endorse instrumental learning, I reimagine the university …

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Legg, S. (2023). Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231174453 Open access Abstract This article explores a relatively rare archival account of female subjectivity, experience, mobility, and voice within a carceral institution in late-colonial Delhi. The capital’s “Rescue Home” was created to …

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Jasper Friedrich & Rachel Shanks (2023) ‘The prison of the body’: school uniforms between discipline and governmentality, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 44:1, 16-29. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2021.1931813 ABSTRACT This article asks what uniform practices in schools can tell us about how power functions through a comprehensive analysis of the uniform policies of all …

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M. Cecilia Oliveira, Leandro Siqueira, Digitalization between environmental activism and counter-activism: The case of satellite data on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, Earth System Governance, Volume 12, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2022.100135. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000040) Open access Abstract: This paper analyzes the uses of digital satellite data on deforestation in the Amazon region, drawing on poststructuralist studies of scientific knowledge …

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Morales-Ladrón, M. On docile bodies: silence, control and surveillance as self-imposed disciplines in Anna Burns’ Milkman (2023) Irish Studies Review DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2198081 Abstract Anna Burns, the first Northern-Irish woman to have been awarded the Booker Prize for her novel Milkman in 2018 has been celebrated since then as a lucid and necessary voice in the …

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Alice Leal & Philip Wilson (2023) A tale of two disciplines? Philosophy in/on translation, Perspectives, 31:1, 1-15, DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2023.2148984 ABSTRACT We describe the genesis of this special issue on ‘philosophy in/on translation’: a symposium led to the formation of a successful research group. The interface between philosophy and translation studies has become a fruitful research …

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Miro Griffiths. Declare Independence. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. 2023. Vol. 3(1):24-41. DOI: 10.13169/intljofdissocjus.3.1.0024 Open access Abstract This article presents an original and critical interrogation of how disabled activists establish claims and coordinate activities to progress the independent living agenda. The article achieves this by employing Beckett and Campbell’s (2015) concept of ‘oppositional …

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Bloomfield, M.J., Manchanda, N. Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain (2023) Regulation and Governance DOI: 10.1111/rego.12522 Abstract To examine how private regulatory governance reproduces a market logic that always already circumscribes possibilities for radical change, we tarry with Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality and his …

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