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

Shai Gortler, The sumud within: Walid Daka’s abolitionist decolonization. Contemporary Polital Theory (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-021-00537-2 Abstract The texts of Walid Daka, a Palestinian political prisoner incarcerated since 1986, challenge the notion that colonial power ends with decolonization and expose the shortcomings of examining colonial prisons solely through the eliminatory prism of death and deprivation. Studying Daka’s …

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Shai Gortler, (2022). Participatory panopticon: Thomas Mott Osborne’s prison democracy. Constellations, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12641 Open access Thomas Mott Osborne’s early-20th-century experiment in prison democracy shows us how domination can be disguised as participation. Osborne knew a thing or two about disguise. As the mayor of Auburn, NY, he would go about his business in …

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Macherey, Pierre. “Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel?” Theory, Culture & Society, (June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221084903. Abstract A ‘way out’ expresses a movement which looks completely different depending on whether one views it prospectively or retrospectively: in the first instance, it signifies ‘to emerge from’, which suggests a relationship of continuity; in the second …

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Hansen, M.P., Triantafillou, P. Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity (2022) European Journal of Social Theory DOI: 10.1177/13684310221078926 Abstract This article seeks to provide a set of pointers for methodological reflections on Foucauldian-inspired analyses of the exercise of power. Michel Foucault deliberately eschewed methodological schemata, which …

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Mills, J.P., Gearity, B., Kuklick, C., Bible, J. Making Foucault coach: turning post-structural assumptions into coaching praxis (2022) Sports Coaching Review DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2022.2057696 Abstract Foucauldian-inspired coaching practices have been a recent focus in the Foucauldian coaching studies literature. There can be no denying the emergence of a number of ethical coaching practices in synergy with …

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Salinas-Arreortua, L.A., Alcantar-García, E.A. Reflexions on public space from disciplinary and regulatory mechanisms statement by Foucault [Reflexiones sobre el espacio público desde los mecanismos disciplinarios y de regulación enunciados por Foucault] (2022) Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 34 (2), pp. 817-834. DOI: 10.5209/aris.75811 Abstract Public space, understood as a space for socialization and construction of critical …

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Janaína Quinzen Willrich, Luciane Prado Kantorski, Ariane da Cruz Guedes, Carmen Terezinha Leal Argiles, Marta Solange Streicher, Janelli da Silva, Dariane Lima Portela, The (mis)government in the COVID-19 pandemic and the psychosocial implications: discipline, subjection, and subjectivity (2022) Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP. DOI: 10.1590/1980-220X-REEUSP-2021-0550 Abstract OBJECTIVE: to analyze the psychosocial implications arising …

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Krishnan, A.R., Jha, S. Writing bodies, wording illness and countering marginalization: graphic autopathographies as a genre (2022) Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2022.2030381 Abstract The hegemonic oppression by biomedical discourses and erroneous cultural assumptions of degeneracy doubly marginalise the chronically ill and exclude them from domains of productivity. Personal narratives of lived illness …

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Li, S. A Foucauldian Power Analysis of China’s Confucius Institute in Africa: Power, Knowledge and the Institutionalisation of China’s Foreign Policy (2022) Journal of Asian and African Studies DOI: 10.1177/00219096221086546 Abstract The Confucius Institute (CI) was established in 2004 by China to disseminate its language, culture and other forms of positive knowledge to people of …

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Francesca Peruzzo, Stephen J Ball, Emiliano Grimaldi, Peopling the crowded education state: Heterarchical spaces, EdTech markets and new modes of governing during the COVID-19 pandemic, International Journal of Educational Research, Volume 114, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102006 Abstract In this paper, we examine a set of complexly related education policy issues that concern changes to the form and …

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