Foucault News

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

Nesbet, Anne, Discipline Made Visible: Abram Room’s The Ghost That Never Returns and the Fantastic Origins of Foucault’s Panopticon (2023) Russian Review, DOI: 10.1111/russ.12397 ABSTRACT: In 1967 Abram Room’s film, The Ghost That Never Returns (1929), traveled to the Cinémathèque de Toulouse (France) and was conspicuously featured in the following year at a major festival …

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Christofidou, A., Milioni, D.L. Art heterotopias against hegemonic discourses: Dancing the Cyprus conflict (2022) European Journal of Cultural Studies DOI: 10.1177/13675494221118385 Abstract We provide an analysis of dance as a practice and an ‘Other’ space; a counter-hegemonic ‘space’, which is affected by the existing social ordering, while simultaneously resisting it. We employ Foucault’s concept of …

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Tebkew, M., Atinkut, H.B. Impact of forest decentralization on sustainable forest management and livelihoods in East Africa (2022) Trees, Forests and People, 10, art. no. 100346 DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100346 Abstract The paper examines how forest decentralization affects forest management and sustainable livelihoods in East Africa. For this review, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania were chosen as …

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Diego Andreucci, Christos Zografos, Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change, Political Geography, Volume 92, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102512. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629821001724) Abstract: In this article, we argue that othering is central to the government of climate change. Critically engaging with Foucault’s ideas on biopolitics and racism, we elaborate a conceptual perspective for analysing …

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Luke, T.W. Investment and Rapid Climate Change as Biopolitics: Foucault and Governance of the Self and Others through ESG. Sustainability 2022, 14, 14974. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214974 Abstract: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies today are an established practice in personal and public finance. They also provide crucial benchmarks for corporate social responsibility policy in gauging the …

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Mooney, J. Personal narratives, public risk: using Foucault’s ‘confessional’ to examine adult retrospective disclosures of childhood abuse (2023) Health, Risk and Society, . DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2023.2166019 Abstract Disclosure of childhood sexual abuse is a process that is often laden with boundary testing, decision-making and, at times, risk. Disclosures tend to be delayed, often into adulthood and …

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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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Azam Ghamkhah & Ali Khazaeefar, The Role of Translation in the Reception of Foucault in Post-revolutionary Iran (2021) inTRAlinea, 23 https://www.intralinea.org/specials/article/2563 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 …

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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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