Foucault News

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

Hunt, R.A., Palmieri, A., Muñoz, J.U. A symptomatic reading of the coronavirus as a neoliberal production: political science and psychoanalytic reflections of post-foundational episteme [Una lectura sintomal del coronavirus como producción neoliberal: reflexiones politológicas y psicoanalíticas de episteme posfundacional] (2021) Discusiones Filosoficas, 22 (38), pp. 59-76. DOI: 10.17151/diil.2021.22.38.5 Abstract This work seeks to establish the …

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Aboim, S. ‘What’s in a name?’ The discursive construction of gender identity over time (2022) Journal of Gender Studies DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2022.2038547 Abstract In recent years the concern with gender diversity fuelled by the rapid expansion of transgender studies highlighted multiple possibilities for constructing gender through discursive enactments. As the self-declaration of gender identity gained legitimacy, …

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Huber, G. Exercising power in autoethnographic vignettes to constitute critical knowledge (2022) Organization DOI: 10.1177/13505084221079006 Abstract This article shows how autoethnographic vignettes can be used as a reflexive tool to problematize the power relations in which organizational ethnographers participate when doing and representing their fieldwork. Foucault’s analysis of the ethical self-formation process provides the impetus …

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Special Issue on Foucault. Revista de Filosofia Aurora. Journal of Philosophy Aurora, v. 34 n. 61 (2022) Open access Note: The DOIs might not be working yet. Please follow link above to journal site Editorial DOI: https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.34.061.ED01 Léo Peruzzo Júnior; Jelson Oliveira, Antonio Valverde, Cesar Candiotto, Philippe Sabot Dossiê La santé au prisme de la …

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Ryan P. Deuel (2021) Governing higher education toward neoliberal governmentality: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of global policy agendas, Globalisation, Societies and Education, DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2021.1897000 ABSTRACT Intergovernmental organisations (IOs) have developed global policies that have shaped the practices of higher education for decades. The OECD, WTO, and World Bank have long framed higher education as both …

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Peter Triantafillou (2022) Biopower in the age of the pandemic: the politics of COVID-19 in Denmark, European Societies, DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2022.2061553 ABSTRACT The exceptional forms of state power mobilized under COVID-19 have attracted scholarly attraction and created important insights on the pandemic politics. However, it seems that the current understanding tends to regard the states’ responses …

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Ryan P. Deuel (2022) International education as an ethical practice: cultivating a care of the self, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2022.2050677 ABSTRACT Various critical approaches tend to view international student mobility within economic and political frameworks, while governmentality studies focuses on the governing practices that shape individual conduct and govern …

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Deuel, R.P. Governing the Discourse of Internationalization in the USA: The Influence of Higher Education Professional Associations. Higher Education Policy (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-021-00237-x Abstract Higher education professional associations (HEPAs) are well-established agents of knowledge production and have been influential in shaping higher education policies and practices. In the context of US international higher education, HEPAs have …

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Robinson, D., Ilinskaya, S. Queering the popular utopia through translingual science fiction: Sense8 as cultural translation (2022) Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2022.2043396 Abstract The paper reads the queer utopia fleshed forth in the Wachowskis’ two-season series Sense8 as a heterotopia (Joanne Tompkins, developing an idea out of Foucault) that orients us …

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Sukhera, J., Poleksic, J., Zaheer, J., Pack, R. Normalising disclosure or reinforcing heroism? An exploratory critical discourse analysis of mental health stigma in medical education (2022) Medical Education DOI: 10.1111/medu.14790 Abstract Introduction: There has been a proliferation of initiatives targeted towards improving psychological wellbeing among medical learners. Yet many learners do not seek assistance due …

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