Foucault News

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

Wan, S.H. A Spectral Spectacle: Dutch Mannerist Portals at Amsterdam’s New Philanthropic Sites, 1581-1645 (2021) Early Modern Low Countries, 5 (2), pp. 332-365. DOI: 10.51750/EMLC11337 Abstract After Amsterdam’s late medieval Catholic monasteries were surrendered to the Protestant government in 1578, four of these properties were converted into an orphanage, a mental asylum, and two gender-specific …

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Jiang, A.L. Identity Work as Ethical Self-Formation: The Case of Two Chinese English-as-Foreign-Language Teachers in the Context of Curriculum Reform (2022) Frontiers in Psychology, 12, art. no. 774759, . DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.774759 Abstract Curriculum reform urges teachers to constantly reflect on existing identities and develop probably whole new identities. Yet, in the wake of the poststructuralist …

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Discacciati, O. October 1917: A Changing Landscape for Peasant Literature. The Role of the Journal Na postu (2021) Enthymema, (28), pp. 36-50. DOI: 10.54103/2037-2426/16838 Open access Abstract The article analyzes the role of the journal Na Postu in the complicated and in many ways conflictual transition from a peasant literature, in the 1930s declared as …

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Mariani, M., Cerdan, C., Peri, I. Cultural biodiversity unpacked, separating discourse from practice (2022) Agriculture and Human Values, . DOI: 10.1007/s10460-021-10286-y Abstract In this article, we question to what extent origin-food labels, namely Geographical Indications (GIs) and Slow Food Presidia, may effectively account for cultural biodiversity (CB). Building on Foucault’s discourse theory, we question how …

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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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