Foucault News

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

Magwa, L., Mohangi, K. Using theoretical frameworks to analyze democratic student–teacher engagement and autonomous learning for academic achievement in Zimbabwe (2022) Frontiers in Education, 7, art. no. 925478 DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.925478 Abstract Positive student–teacher engagement that fosters independent and supported learning is the fulcrum for academic success. This paper investigates stakeholder opinions on the intrinsic importance …

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Beyribey, T. Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s (2022) European Journal of International Relations DOI: 10.1177/13540661221131432 Abstract In critical terrorism analysis, (counter-)terrorism is thought to be a discursive formation of power/knowledge comprised of some security experts from governments, the media, and academics. However, this one-sided …

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Puggioni, R. Reading the COVID-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault: The liberal subject and everyday practices of mobility (2022) Politics DOI: 10.1177/02633957221130263 Abstract Since the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, most analyses have used a Foucauldian perspective to investigate the disciplinary and surveillance mechanisms that (il/liberal) states introduced to contain the spread of the virus. …

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Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball (2022) Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education, Journal of Education Policy, Published online: 15 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2022.2157890 ABSTRACT This paper develops previous work in which we deployed a form of Foucauldian critique to clear a space in which it might be …

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Lars Erik Løvaas Gjerde, (2022). Biopolitical and juridical creations of the quarantine hotel: A discourse analysis of the Norwegian case. Acta Sociologica. First published online November 24, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221136038 Abstract The quarantine hotel is one of several political instruments used to control the spread of Covid-19 in diverse countries, from Norway to China. I apply …

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Aaron Zielinski (2022) The Imaginary Force of History: On images, the Imaginary, and Myths in Foucault’s Early Works, Critical Review, Published online: 09 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2151709 ABSTRACT In manuscripts and unpublished articles written in the 1950s, Foucault developed a notion of myth that was intimately linked to what he called “imaginary forces,” a notion …

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Du, Y. “Working the government” Poverty alleviation resettlement in two Yi villages, Sichuan, China (2022) Geoforum, 136, pp. 153-160. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.09.008 Abstract Resettlement studies in China and globally draw upon Michel Foucault’s description of governmentality, classing resettlement programmes as power-laden activities, in which planning practices reorganise the built environment and life arrangements and redefine the …

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Zaini, A. Ambivalent reading: Ambivalence as a reading practice in critical literacy (2022) Language Teaching Research DOI: 10.1177/13621688221126724 Abstract While previous research has suggested there are dominantly two reading practices in critical literacy, namely, reading with and against texts, this study introduces the approach of ambivalence as a third way of reading texts critically. For …

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Llewellyn, A. “A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW (2022) Journal of Homosexuality, 69 (13), pp. 2348-2369. DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2021.1940012 Abstract In the current society, the online and fictional worlds are important spaces for both the identity construction and wellbeing of LGBTQ people. Connecting these spaces are fandoms …

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Andrä, C. Problematising war: Towards a reconstructive critique of war as a problem of deviance (2022) Review of International Studies, 48 (4), pp. 705-724. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210522000274 Abstract This article redirects extant critiques of the modern problem of war at this problem’s underlying logic of deviance. According to this logic, war constitutes a kind of international …

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