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

Harrahill, K., Macken-Walsh, Á., O’Neill, E. Prospects for the bioeconomy in achieving a Just Transition: perspectives from Irish beef farmers on future pathways (2023) Journal of Rural Studies, 100 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103020 Abstract Many beef farm systems in Irish and some global contexts have economic and environmental traits that threaten their future sustainability. In this context, …

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Giovana Carmo Temple, O acontecimento como uma saída à verdade da prática discursiva, Lampião Revista de Filosofia, v.3, n.1, 2022, Publicado: 01/06/2023 Resumo Neste artigo, desenvolvo uma reflexão da noção de acontecimento nos textos de Foucault, particularmente nos livros L’archéologie du savoir (1969) e L’ordre du discours (1971). O objetivo é mostrar como Foucault retoma …

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Marcio Luiz Miotto, Michel Foucault e “A questão antropológica” – precisões históricas e conceituais Lampião Revista de Filosofia, v.3, n.1, 2022, Publicado: 01/06/2023 Resumo O presente trabalho pretende estabelecer algumas precisões históricas e conceituas em torno da formação da história arqueológica de Michel Foucault, tendo como foco um livro póstumo e recém lançado, intitulado La …

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Carol Bacchi, Why Study Problematizations? Making Politics Visible, Open Journal of Political Science, Vol.2, No.1, 2012 1-8 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2012.21001 Open access Abstract This paper introduces the theoretical concept, problematization, as it is developed in Foucauldian-inspired poststructural analysis. The objective is two-fold: first, to show how a study of problematizations politicizes taken-for-granted “truths”; and second, to illustrate …

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Moon, K., Cho, H.D. Biopolitics and a right to tourism (2023) Current Issues in Tourism DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2203852 Abstract Tourism as a right was officially stated in the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (1999) and it would be granted normative status once the Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics (2020) is legally binding. As such, the …

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Paolucci, C. Pre‐Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions” (2023) Media and Communication, 11 (2), pp. 101-108. DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6628 Abstract In this article, I will work on the idea of Pre‐Truth (as opposed to post‐truth) and Semiological Guerrilla (as opposed to fake news), claiming that these two concepts are …

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Mark Olssen, 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 …

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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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