Foucault News

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

Jindra, M., Paulle, B., Jindra, I.W. Relational Work in the Struggle Against Poverty: Balancing Scholarly Critiques and Emancipatory Practices in the Nonprofit Sector (2020) Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 49 (1), pp. 160-179. DOI: 10.1177/0899764019861716 Abstract Among antipoverty nonprofit organizations (NPOs), a significant shift back to “relational work” has been occurring. This form of human …

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Mayes, C. Governmentality of Fencing in Australia: Tracing the White Wires from Paddocks to Aboriginal Protection, Pest Exclusion and Immigration Restriction (2020) Journal of Intercultural Studies, 41 (1), pp. 42-59. DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2020.1704228 Abstract The importation of wire-fencing to Australia from the 1840s transformed the management of sheep. Rather than shepherds watching over flocks, wire-fences allowed …

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Brendon Murphy, The Technology of Guilt, Australasian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Volume 44, 2019, pp. 64-99 PDF of article (Copyright Brendon Murphy) Introduction Arguably, the most important event in criminal law is the determination of guilt. Indeed, the entire intellectual architecture of criminal law is directed towards a moment when a court declares the subject …

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Evans, B., Johnson, H. Responding to the problem of ‘food security’ in animal cruelty policy debates: building alliances between animal-centred and human-centred work on food system issues (2020) Agriculture and Human Values, 37 (1), pp. 161-174. DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09979-2 Abstract Research on ethical issues within food systems is often human-centric. As a consequence, animal-centric policy debates …

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Kevin Maynard, Foucault on the Wards. Rediscovering Reflection as a Social Pediatrician in Training, Academic Medicine: October 15, 2019 DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003042 Open access Abstract The author states that as a second-year medical student with a liberal arts degree, it is often difficult for him to reconcile his former education with the current demands of his …

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İbrahimhakkıoğlu, F. A Feminist Genealogy of the Lived Body? Rethinking the Gendered Body as a Site of Excess and Indeterminacy (2019) Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 50 (4), pp. 324-336. DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2019.1610830 Abstract This essay offers a rethinking of the gendered body as both lived and historically constituted. These two dimensions are sometimes …

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Alex Black and Karen Lumsden, Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers (2020) Policing and Society, 30 (1), pp. 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1568428 Abstract This article explores the riskwork engaged in by call handlers, dispatchers and response officers in …

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Cornelius Borck (2019). Cooperation and Critique in Neuroscience: Loops of Feedback Between Philosophy, the Psy Sciences and Neurophenomenology. Le Foucaldien, 5(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.57 Open access Abstract In the long history of tenuous relations between psychology, psychiatry and philosophy the rise of neuroscience is typically regarded as decisive turn towards biological reductionism. Roughly since the turn …

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Justin Ross Muchnick, Wrestling with the Heterotopia: Jordan Burroughs and His Post-Match Interview at the 2016 Olympics (2020) Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 14 (1), pp. 35-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2018.1531056 Abstract This essay applies Michel Foucault’s conception of the heterotopia to the context of the sport of wrestling. In particular, it examines the social and spatial structures of …

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Hanne Svarstad, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Ragnhild Overå, Power theories in political ecology, Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 25, No 1 (2018) DOI: 10.2458/v25i1.23044 See also article on Researchgate if link above is timing out Open access Abstract Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to …

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