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

Diaz-Bone, R. Economics of convention meets Canguilhem (2021) Historical Social Research, 46 (1), pp. 285-311. DOI: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.285-311 Abstract »Economics of Convention Meets Canguilhem«. The neopragmatist institutionalist approach of economics of convention (in short EC) still is in need of a conception of health that enables EC to work out a critical standpoint in the analysis …

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Palacios, C. A truly invisible hand: The critical value of Foucauldian irony (2021) Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, 4 (1), pp. 48-72. DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8855219 Open access Abstract Critical theory has long resisted the notion that an “invisible hand” can operate within the real social dynamics of a free market. But despite the most …

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Bandiera, R. Marx, Foucault, and state–corporate harm: a case study of regulatory failure in Australian non-prescription medicine regulation (2021) Crime, Law and Social Change DOI: 10.1007/s10611-021-09953-2 Abstract Risk-based regulation has underpinned Australian prescription and non-prescription medicine regulation for over three decades. However, data consistently demonstrate high rates of non-compliance among non-prescription medicine sponsors, with most …

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Joynt, C., Rosskama, J. Toward a trans method, or reciprocity as a way of life (2021) Feminist Media Histories, 7 (1), pp. 11-20. DOI: 10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.11 Abstract It is reductive yet accurate to assert that Chase Joynt and Jules Rosskam first met because they are both trans people who make documentary films. While the alignment of …

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van der Drift, M. Management and rights amidst plural worlds (2021) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 35 (1), pp. 93-115. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.35.1.0093 Abstract Sylvia Wynter discusses Eurocentric thought as a closed cognitive order. In this article, Mijke van der Drift interrogates this cognitive closure as a style of thought that is intertwined with institutions. By inverting …

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Foucault Studies, Number 30, June 2021 Articles Resistance: An Arendtian Reading of Solidarity and Friendship in Foucault Liesbeth Schoonheim Avowing Unemployment: Confessional Jobseeker Interviews and Professional CVs Tom Boland The Carnival of the Mad: Foucault’s Window into the Origin of Psychology Hannah Lyn Venable Book Reviews Nancy Luxon (ed.), Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State …

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Davis, D.S., Buffa, D., Rasolondrainy, T., Creswell, E., Anyanwu, C., Ibirogba, A., Randolph, C., Ouarghidi, A., Phelps, L.N., Lahiniriko, F., Chrisostome, Z.M., Manahira, G., Douglass, K. The aerial panopticon and the ethics of archaeological remote sensing in sacred cultural spaces (2021) Archaeological Prospection DOI: 10.1002/arp.1819 Abstract Remote sensing technology has become a standard tool for …

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Innico, S. Enacting Statehood in Places of Exception: The Structural Effect of Statehood on Greek Migration Management (2021) Ethnopolitics DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2021.1907932 Abstract The aim of this paper is to outline an analytic perspective on the notion of statehood, state authorities’ performance in situations of exceptionality, and to present some insights from ethnographic research in the …

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Roberts, J., Sanderson, P., Seidl, D., Krivokapic, A. The UK Corporate Governance Code Principle of ‘Comply or Explain’: Understanding Code Compliance as ‘Subjection’ (2020) Abacus DOI: 10.1111/abac.12208 Abstract The focus of this paper is on UK Code compliance and the contests and confusions that have surrounded its principle of ‘comply or explain’. In contrast to …

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Calbérac, Y. (2021). Close Reading Michel Foucault’s and Yves Lacoste’s Concepts of Space Through Spatial Metaphors. Le Foucaldien, 7(1), 6. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.90 Abstract Based on a close reading of the interview that Michel Foucault gave Hérodote, the geography journal newly established and managed by Yves Lacoste in 1976, this article—through the study of spatial metaphors—unfolds …

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