Foucault News

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

Chevallier, Philippe. « Foucault avant Foucault », Archives de Philosophie, vol. 85, no. 3, 2022, pp. 151-156. https://doi.org/10.3917/aphi.853.0151 Article en accès gratuit jusqu’au 30/07/22 sur : https://www.cairn.info/tap-gmsjcp22r371o En 2013, la Bibliothèque nationale de France a acquis les archives de Michel Foucault, désormais réparties dans 117 boîtes de conservation, complétées depuis par quelques dons de ses …

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Segni e Comprensione Deadline April 15, 2023. Interested researchers are invited to submit their paper by sending their article of no more than 60,000 characters, including spaces, to the email address fabio.sulpizio@unisalento.it by 15 April 2023. Papers may be submitted in Italian, French, English, German or Spanish. Michel Foucault La morte di Michel Foucault, avvenuta …

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Rose, P.A. The Tug-of-War Over Truth: A Foucauldian Case Study on the Interplay of Competing Discourses in Education (2022) Frontiers in Education, 7, art. no. 840403 DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.840403 Abstract The present study applies a Foucauldian critical analytic to investigate competing discourses in education that are shown to be present in one public high school in …

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Hewitt, M. How Does a Foucauldian Genealogical Approach Enhance the Study of Long-Term Care through a Critical Disability Lens? (2022) Societies, 12 (3), art. no. 73 DOI: 10.3390/soc12030073 Abstract Younger disabled adults in long-term care, particularly those with physical disabilities and chronic illnesses, receive care that does not fit their needs. This article looks at …

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Borah, R.R., Bhuvaneswari, G., Hussain, M.M. When Worlds Collide: Using films to Understand the Heterotopic Overlaps of Multiple Worlds (2022) ECS Transactions, 107 (1), pp. 2363-2370. DOI: 10.1149/10701.2363ecst Abstract Heterotopia is an idea as put forward by Michel Foucault, from the notion of place and non-place as disruptive elements. This article explores the fascination with …

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Barry, L. Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity (2022) Theory, Culture and Society DOI: 10.1177/02632764221087932 Abstract Despite their common core in statistics, insurance and epidemiology propel two different forms of solidarity. In insurance, the collective is a source of protection, thanks to the pooling of risks; in epidemics by contrast, the group remains the …

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Zhang, H., Powell, D. Governing Olympic education: Technologies of policy announcements and outsourcing (2022) International Review for the Sociology of Sport DOI: 10.1177/10126902221101993 Abstract The Chinese government views the Olympic Games as a critical platform to present national pride on a global scale. Olympic education also has an important role to play for China, as …

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Twyford, E.J. Crisis accountability and aged “care” during COVID-19 (2022) Meditari Accountancy Research DOI: 10.1108/MEDAR-05-2021-1296 Abstract Purpose: This study aims to fill the gaps in mandated reports with social accounts to provide more inclusive accountability during a crisis using the illustrative example of Anglicare’s Newmarch House during a deadly COVID-19 outbreak. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses …

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de Andrade, H.S., Carvalho, S.R., de Oliveira, C.F. Leituras do governo neoliberal do Estado e da saúde (2022) Physis, 32 (1), art. no. e320116 DOI: 10.1590/S0103-73312022320116 Abstract Brazilian Public Health has often analyzed neoliberalism as a phenomenon of emptying the role of the State and a threat to public and universal health. Taking Foucault’s governmental …

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