Foucault News

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

Baker, B., & O’Farrell, C. (2021, February 23). Curriculum influences: William James and Michel Foucault. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1093 Editor: I’m really pleased to see this out after a long wait! Email me if you would like a copy and can’t get through the paywall Summary William James …

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David Fryer, Charles Marley, Rose Stambe, The Reproduction of Compliant Labour Power Through (Re)Constitution of the Child and Adult Subject: Critical Knowledge-Work, Awry: Journal of Critical Psychology, Vol 1 No 1 (2020) Open access Abstract As Althusser made clear: “the reproduction of labour power requires not only a reproduction of its skills, but also, at …

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Glasdam, S., Loodin, H., Wrigstad, J. Articulations of antimicrobial resistance in trade union financed journals for nurses in Scandinavia – A Foucauldian perspective (2021) Nursing Inquiry. DOI: 10.1111/nin.12396 Abstract Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacterial infections is a growing threat to humanity and a challenge to healthcare systems worldwide. Healthcare professionals have an important role in …

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Marios Emmanouilidis, The Parasitic Folding. Humans-as-Animals, States and Machines that Come from the Outside: Homologies between a Virus and Finance, Translated from the Greek by Barbara Santos, Transversal (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Vienna) , December 2020 Open access The text approaches the Covid-19 epidemic from two points of view: (a) as a war …

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Palma Carvajal, J.F. Advocacy NGOs and the neoliberal manufacture of the street voice (2021) Journal of Education Policy. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2021.1875266 Abstract In the previous decades there has been an unprecedented proliferation of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in different policy fields. In hand with this process of ‘NGOisation’, there has been a growing academic debate regarding …

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Håkanson, L. The death of the Uppsala school: Towards a discourse-based paradigm? (2021) Journal of International Business Studies DOI: 10.1057/s41267-020-00392-0 Abstract The key elements of the Uppsala school paradigm of the internationalization process of the firm are the historical context to which it applies and the micro-foundations that shape firm internationalization. Technological, institutional, and political …

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Thomas Macho and Sascha Rashof, Alone with oneself: solitude as cultural technique (2021) Angelaki – Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 26 (1), pp. 9-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2021.1863587 Abstract The essay examines solitude not as fate, sacrifice or passion, but as an experience that is actively initiated, that is perceived ambivalently, sometimes painfully, but also sensually, and that …

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Carozzi, G. Hope and responsibility: embracing different types of knowledge whilst generating my own living-educational-theory (2021) Educational Action Research DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2021.1880458 Abstract For Foucault, discourses shape people’s knowledge and inform how they act in a society. Power over others is legitimated by dominant discourses, a means through which hegemony discloses itself: a given group is …

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Soleymanjahan, I., Maleki, N., Weisi, H. The real America: Representation of American society in Jack Kerouac’s on the road based on Michel Foucault’s notions of institutions, normalization, and surveillance (2020) Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 28 (4), pp. 2913-2927. DOI: 10.47836/PJSSH.28.4.23 Abstract This study aimed to scrutinize and analyze the novel On the …

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Joseph Zajda, Discourse analysis as a qualitative methodology (2020) Educational Practice and Theory, 42 (2), pp. 5-21. https://doi.org/10.7459/ept/42.2.02 Abstract The article analyses the term discourse and discourse analysis with reference to Foucault and other critics. Foucault used the role of discourses in wider social processes of legitimating power, and emphasizing the construction of current truths. …

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