Foucault News

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

Murray, C., Butler, P., Ó Gallchóir, C., & Salokangas, M. (2025). Tensions that stultify education: school principals reflecting on their professional relationships. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2025.2524799 ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationships that principals identify as most significant to their leadership and how these shape their professional identities. Drawing on Foucault’s …

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Shakib Zarbighalehhammami, Exploring the Comprehensive Surveillance Strategies of the Iranian Government to Control Women’s Attire Post the Women, Life, Freedom Movement, Sexuality, Gender & Policy, Volume 8, Issue 3 e70011, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.70011 ABSTRACT The comprehensive surveillance system, expanded today through technology, provides a more precise form of monitoring and control over citizens, enabling a unified …

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Garruzzo, A. (2025). History and the Will to Power: Foucault and Nietzsche on Genealogy. European Journal of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.70010 ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in genealogy among social and political philosophers. I argue, however, that this growing literature has tended to obscure what distinguishes genealogy as an approach to …

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Khan, S. R., Kelly, P., & Brown, S. (2025). The status of women and the cultural politics of Pakistan Studies in postcolonial Pakistan. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2025.2515021 ABSTRACT This paper investigates how the rights, roles and status of women are presented in Pakistan Studies textbooks (PSTs) for grades 9 …

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Koempel, A. (2025). “We didn’t used to be corporate medicine”: The jobification of United States healthcare. Human Organization, 1–12 https://doi.org/10.1080/00187259.2025.2519790 Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of “jobification” to examine how primary care medicine has transformed from a perceived calling into mechanistic, profit-driven work. Through qualitative research with family physicians in the United …

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Thibaud, E. (2025). Reflections on techno-solutionism in education: Manifestations and causes. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2025.2528852 Abstract Techno-solutionism refers to the belief that many of society’s ills can and should be solved by technology. This paper explores the ways techno-solutionism manifests itself in the field of education: for the past few decades, each new …

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Winsky, N. and Onusseit, C. (2025), The Rickshaw as In-Between: Heterotopias and Social Participation in Aging. Population, Space and Place, 31: e70068. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70068 ABSTRACT As the population aged 65 and older significantly increases, understanding the dynamics within nursing homes becomes crucial. Residents often face loneliness upon entering these facilities, experiencing a disconnection from their previous …

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Allsobrook, C. (2025). The Structural Violence of Imperial Trusteeship in Postcolonial Governmentality. African Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2536036 ABSTRACT The article considers how structural violence in African polities has displaced sovereign agency and responsibility for its harmful effects by extending imperial practices of trusteeship in postcolonial governmentality. It explains how, with liberation, decolonisation and political independence, imperial …

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Mu, Y., & Vásquez, C. (2025). “Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape. Social Semiotics, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2025.2543085 ABSTRACT This study examines how the Chinese government uses multiple semiotic resources, in both online and offline contexts, to (re)shape citizens’ behaviors and construct knowledge about wastesorting under the recent national waste-sorting policy. Informed …

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Federico Jose T. Lagdameo, “Digital Governmentality: Technological Subjectivation and AI”, Kaabigan: Journal of the Panpacific University, Vol. 3:2, 1-17 (July 2025) doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16786093 Abstract: This article develops a Foucauldian analysis of artificial intelligence technologies, particularly large language models such as ChatGPT, as contemporary technologies of power. Building upon Michel Foucault’s genealogical critique of disciplinary and …

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