Foucault News

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

Capocchi, A., Orlandini, P., Pierotti, M., Amelio, S. The nature, roles, uses, and impacts of accounting systems in the Real Liceo of Lucca in the nineteenth century (2022) Accounting History Review DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2021.2025113 Abstract This study aims to advance the literature by examining how accounting systems were used in the management of the Real Liceo …

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Dombrowsky, T. Independent Thinking in Nursing: An Archaeology of Knowledge Perspective (2022) The Journal of nursing education, 61 (1), pp. 12-18. DOI: 10.3928/01484834-20211201-01 Abstract BACKGROUND: The topic of thinking was not widely discussed in nursing literature until the 1960s. At that time, the nursing process entered nursing literature, and later, in the 1980s, critical thinking …

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McCormick, W. Polarities of the Human and Divine: Aquinas and Schmitt on Political Theology (2022) American Journal of Political Science, 66 (1), pp. 93-105. DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12608 Abstract The investigations of Carl Schmitt yielded an influential but partial recovery of the term “political theology.” In this article, I consider Schmitt’s tendentious reduction of political theology to …

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Chipango, E.F. Political ecologies of energy poverty in Zimbabwe (2022) GeoJournal DOI: 10.1007/s10708-021-10566-4 Abstract Studies that attribute energy poverty to a lack of technical resources abound in Zimbabwe. However, such line of reasoning falls short of giving a rigorous analysis of the existing political-economic factors and scalar politics. These include power dynamics, gender relations, class, …

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Cos, J.C.C.G. Space___Between: Remnants of a city as catalysts for change (2021) Cidades, (43), pp. 22-33. DOI: 10.15847/cct.24114 Abstract It all starts with a question… Or perhaps too many. What can be done with the remnants of any given city? Can they be transformed to create a shared, cohesive, and productive urban environment? Understanding that …

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Galis & Makrygianni Analog flows in digital worlds: ‘Migration multiples’ and digital heterotopias in Greek territory (2022) Political Geography, 95, art. no. 102599 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102599 Abstract Migrants’ engagement with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) reveals a wide spectrum of resistance practices that enact “heterotopias” (Foucault, 1967) that extend from the human body to transnational landscapes …

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Sánchez-Pinilla, M.D., González, D.J.D. Punitive rationalities. An epistemology for the objectification and historicity of punishment policies [Racionalidades punitivas. Una epistemología para la objetivación y la historicidad de las políticas del castigo] (2021) Enrahonar, 67, pp. 131-157. DOI: 10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1358 Open access Abstract Michel Foucault’s idea of rationality does not refer to a universal criterion of reason …

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Vallentin, S., Murillo, D. Ideologies of Corporate Responsibility: From Neoliberalism to “varieties of Liberalism” (2021) Business Ethics Quarterly DOI: 10.1017/beq.2021.43 Abstract Critical scholarship often presents corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a reflection or embodiment of neoliberalism. Against this sort of sweeping political characterization we argue that CSR can indeed be considered a liberal concept but …

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Nørup, I., Jacobsen, B. Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty (2021) Social Policy and Administration DOI: 10.1111/spol.12784 Abstract Based on strong discourses of individualization, active welfare reforms in Denmark have changed the financial security of vulnerable families and increased numbers of children are growing up …

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Spicksley, K. Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation (2021) British Journal of Sociology of Education DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2021.2003183 Abstract This article reports findings from a small-scale research project which explored the professional identities of early career teachers working in primary academies in England. During interviews and focus groups, these new teachers resisted identifying as …

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