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

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Works, Critical Review, Published online: 09 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2151709 ABSTRACT In manuscripts and unpublished articles written in the 1950s, Foucault developed a notion of myth that was intimately linked to what he called “imaginary forces,” a notion …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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Lorenzini, D. (2021). Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice: On Foucault’s Readings of Descartes’ Meditations. Theory, Culture & Society, First published online January 14, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420980510 Abstract This paper addresses the multiple readings that Foucault offers of Descartes’ Meditations during the whole span of his intellectual career. It thus rejects the (almost) exclusive focus of the …

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Carmona, S., Casasola, A., Ezzamel, M. Penal accountancy and the Spanish Inquisition (2022) Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, art. no. 107031. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2022.107031 Abstract In this paper, we examine how accounting and financial conditions mediated public policy processes of prosecution, punishment, and imprisonment in the Spanish Inquisition during the late 16th and early 17th …

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CRISIS AND CRITIQUE Volume 9 / Issue 2, 25-11-2022 Edited by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda Open access Introduction: Is Politics Possible Today? by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza Table of Contents Politics Today: Thirteen Theses and Commentaries by Alain Badiou Rethinking Politics and Freedom in Anthropocene by Wendy Brown Technique as Politics by Andrea …

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Söderberg, J., Bjurö, O. The Return of the Repressed: Subject, Truth and Critique in Times of Post-Truth (2022) Philosophy of the Social Sciences DOI: 10.1177/00483931221126912 Abstract The surge of post-truth calls for a reassessment of psychoanalytic and ideology critique-approaches in the social sciences. Both traditions are dismissed by the principal antagonists in the post-truth debate, …

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