Foucault News

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

Schweyer, M. (2022). Généalogie du gouvernement de la famille: Foucault et l’histoire politique de l’autorité familiale. Archives de Philosophie, 85, 89-107. https://doi.org/10.3917/aphi.854.0089 Résumé À la fin de Surveiller et Punir, Foucault indique qu’il faudrait étudier les débats révolutionnaires sur le droit des parents à faire enfermer leurs enfants, pour prolonger son analyse de la discipline …

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Ncube, L., Mare, A. “Fake News” and Multiple Regimes of “Truth” During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe (2022) African Journalism Studies DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2022.2072925 Abstract Debates around the sociocultural phenomenon known as “fake news” have gathered storm since the 2016 US Presidential elections. Our study problematises the notion of “truth” in a politically polarised and trust-deficit …

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Ghamkhah, A., Khazaeefar, A. The Role of Translation in the Reception of Foucault in Post-revolutionary Iran(2021) inTRAlinea, 23 Open access Abstract This study focuses on how the ideas of Michel Foucault were received and interpreted in the post-revolutionary Iran during two significant political periods stretching from 1979 to 2005, covering two eight-year administrations, the Reconstruction …

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Ju, R. Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers on Xiaohongshu (Red) (2022) Policy and Internet, 14 (3), pp. 618-632. DOI: 10.1002/poi3.324 Abstract Building on Foucault’s perspective of governmentality, this article focuses on how influencers in Hong Kong China (HK) operate as agents/mediators of governmentality and how “governmentality” occurs over and through …

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Cline, D.H. Sensory Disorientation during Crisis: Foucault’s “Heterotopia” and the Plague in Ancient Athens (2022) Classical World, 115 (4), pp. 325-359. DOI: 10.1353/clw.2022.0014 Abstract This article explores the sensory experience of being in Athens during the plague (430–426 bce). By approaching the ancient epidemic from a perspective of sensory archaeology, we discover that the intensity …

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Ostrowicka, H., Wolniewicz-Slomka, K. Heterotopias of Nationalist Youth Organisations in Poland: Communitarisation and Entry/Exit System (2022) Qualitative Report, 27 (11), pp. 2528-2545. DOI: 10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5708 Abstract The article presents the results of an analysis of the discourse of nationalist youth organisations in Poland. The authors have attempted to reconstruct the common “us”of two youth organisations based …

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Garlen, J.C., Hembruff, S.L. Children as ‘difference makers’: viral discourses of childhood innocence and activism in #Blacklivesmatter (2022) Children’s Geographies DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2022.2142037 Abstract Viral images on social media during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 brought heightened attention to the debate over children’s political participation. Therefore, our inquiry sought to discover what the circulation …

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Costa, V.R., Luguetti, C., Santos Oliveira, M.D., Pinheiro, M.C., Nunomura, M. Living within and outside a disciplinary bubble: a Foucauldian analysis of Brazilian gymnasts’ experiences in boarding school (2022) Sport, Education and Society, . DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2022.2142544 Abstract The gymnastics’ environment has been criticised for producing uncompromising coaching practices, emotional disorders, harassment and abuse. Furthermore, the …

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Foucault’s Late Politics. Special Issue. South Atlantic Quarterly, October 2022, Vol 121, Issue 4 Introduction: The Late Foucault and the Allegories of Theory Gavin Walker ARTICLES Beyond Neoliberal Realism: Foucault’s Late Politics Johanna Oksala Crisis and Transition: The Late Foucault and the Vocation of Philosophy Benjamin Noys The Revolutionary and Anti-Capitalist Politics of the Late …

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