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

Brosnan, C., Tickner, C., Davies, K., Heinsch, M., Steel, A., Vuolanto, P. The salutogenic gaze: Theorising the practitioner role in complementary and alternative medicine consultations (2023) Sociology of Health and Illness. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13629 Abstract Research on why people use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) shows clients value the CAM consultation, where they feel listened to …

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Salmenkari, T., Aldawoodi, S. Papers of the Paperless: Governmentality, Technologies of Freedom, and the Production of Asylum-Seeker Identities (2023) International Migration Review. DOI: 10.1177/01979183231154502 Abstract Refugees become asylum-seekers not only because the receiving country gives them the bureaucratic-legal status but also because they start to identify with the status. This article examines how refugees learn …

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Di Pierro, M. (2022). Archaeology or interpretation: Michel Foucault and Claude Lefort. Constellations, 29, 434– 446. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12606 INTRODUCTION: LA POLITIQUE AND LE POLITIQUE On February 2, 1983, during his lecture at Collège de France, Michel Foucault criticizes the concept of the political (le politique). According to Foucault, the shift from politics (la politique) to the …

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Mulberg, Jon. “The Challenge of Environmental Governance: Ecology and the Need for a Heterodox Political Economy.” The Journal of Australian Political Economy, no. 80 (2017): 129–54. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.308610660985029. Extracts AThis article will investigate the problem of environmental governance. It will question the scientific status of the discipline of economics, and suggest that economics is best viewed …

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Special Issue: Foucault Before the Collège de France, Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 40 Issue 1-2, January-March 2023 Foucault Before the Collège de France Stuart Elden Orazio Irrera Daniele Lorenzini Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel? Pierre Macherey Foucault and the History of Anthropology: Man, before the ‘Death of Man’ Arianna Sforzini Michel …

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Colapietro, V. Quotidian Tasks: Habits, Routines, and Rituals (2022) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 36 (4), pp. 491-516. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.36.4.0491 Abstract The author frames his exploration in terms of Michel Foucault’s distinction between the practice of emancipation in the strict sense and practices of freedom. He proposes to treat rituals of attention as examples of practices …

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Simons, M. “Changing” one’s mind: Historical epistemology as normative psychology (2023) Metaphilosophy DOI: 10.1111/meta.12616 Abstract This article argues that historical epistemology offers the history of philosophy and science more than a mere tool to write the history of concepts. It does this, first of all, by rereading historical epistemology through Michel Foucault’s “techniques of the …

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Weiskopf, R. Dis/organising visibilities: Governmentalisation and counter-transparency (2023) Organization, 30 (2), pp. 326-344. DOI: 10.1177/1350508421995751 Abstract This paper situates organisational transparency in an agonistic space that is shaped by the interplay of ‘mechanisms of power that adhere to a truth’ and critical practices that come from below in a movement of ‘not being governed like …

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Call for Papers Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault: A Comparison of their Historical Methodologies The Journal of the Philosophy of History Click on the Call for papers menu item The Journal of the Philosophy of History plans a special issue to explore Arendt and Foucault’s approaches to historical method (broadly conceived) and intellectual history, and, …

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Special Issue: Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability, March 2023 Open access Kaspar Villadsen (Copenhagen Business School) and Johannes Lundberg (Århus University) have guest-edited a special issue of the journal Sustainability with the title: “Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability”. The Special Issue eplores themes like the ESG discourse, Green Transition, CSR, …

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