Foucault News

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

Zhang, Z. and Moore-Cherry, N. (2022), Urban Redevelopment, Displacement, and Governmentality in Nanjing’s Historic Inner-City. Antipode, 54: 979-999. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12801 Abstract Housing-related urban development has become a core plank of China’s economic policy since the mid-1990s. Reports of resistance to displacement and resettlement associated with urban restructuring, once widespread, have dissipated since the early-2010s. Using the …

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Terri Bourke, Mary Ryan, Leonie Rowan, Joanne Lunn Brownlee, Susan Walker & Lyra L’Estrange (2022): Teacher educators’ knowledge about diversity: what enables and constrains their teaching decisions?, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2022.2119369 ABSTRACT Internationally and in Australia, there is growing evidence that graduate teachers feel under prepared to teach diverse groups of children. …

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Bietti, Elettra, A Genealogy of Digital Platform Regulation (June 3, 2021). 7 Georgetown Law and Technology Review (2022) (forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3859487 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3859487 Abstract At its inception between the 1960s and 1990s, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a …

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Yokum, N. Juliette’s Endless Prosperities: Foucault avec Lacan on Sade’s Illustrious Villain (2022) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 36 (2), pp. 172-182. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.36.2.0172 Abstract The Marquis de Sade’s Juliette-well-known as an outrageously murderous, hedonistic anti-heroine-captured the attention of some of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Most of these engagements with Sade have …

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Ural, A.G., Sariman Ozen, E. An analysis of heterotopic space: Hasanpaşa Gazhane, enlightening once again (2022) A/Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 19 (2), pp. 445-457. DOI: 10.5505/itujfa.2022.97355 Open access Abstract While architectural structures can be physically damaged over the years, they may also become functionally inadequate as a result of the change …

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Verovšek, P.J. The Reluctant Postmodernism of JÜrgen Habermas: Reevaluating Habermas’s Debates with Foucault and Derrida (2022) Review of Politics, 84 (3), pp. 397-421. DOI: 10.1017/S0034670522000316 Abstract Politicians and scholars alike have blamed postmodernism – and the identity politics that have emerged in its wake – for the pathologies of the early twenty-first century. Despite his …

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May, L. Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City (2022) Games and Culture DOI: 10.1177/15554120221115398 Abstract Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City has found new life in videogames during the three decades since its demolition, taking on unstable and sometimes contradictory forms when reimagined through virtual architecture. At stake in these acts of …

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Jones, L., Avner, Z., Denison, J. “After the Dust Settles”: Foucauldian Narratives of Retired Athletes’ “Re-orientation” to Exercise (2022) Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 4, art. no. 901308 DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2022.901308 Abstract One aspect of sports retirement that has been overlooked until recently is the manner in which retired athletes relate to, and seek to …

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Allen, Ansgar, and Sarah Spencer. “Regimes of Motherhood: Social Class, the Word Gap and the Optimisation of Mothers’ Talk.” The Sociological Review, (June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221104378. Abstract The role of working class mothers’ talk in explaining their child’s ‘impoverished’ language development and the resulting ‘word gap’ between social classes is hotly debated. Academic research in this …

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Châteauvert-Gagnon, B. ‘How dare she?!’: Parrhesiastic resistance and the logics of protection of/in international security (2022) Security Dialogue DOI: 10.1177/09670106221090830 Abstract Malalai Joya, Greta Thunberg, Idle No More leaders – what do these figures have in common? They each decided to act/speak out against the failures, lacks, exclusions, violence and injustices in the words and …

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