Foucault News

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

Duschinsky, Robbie and Leon Antonio Rocha (Eds.) Foucault, the Family and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Foucault, the Family and Politics presents a rich account of the politics and power relations that organize family and intimate life, advancing with and beyond Foucault’s classic and more recently-published writings. The obligation to attend school, to go to work, …

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Hans-Martin Jaeger, Governmentality’s (missing) international dimension and the promiscuity of German neoliberalism (2013) Journal of International Relations and Development, 16 (1), pp. 25-54. https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2012.6 Abstract An important insight from the recent publication of Foucault’s governmentality lectures for International Relations (IR) is that international manifestations of governmentalities such as police and liberalism, rather than constituting mere …

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Mikko Joronen, Conceptualising New Modes of State Governmentality: Power, Violence and the Ontological Mono-politics of Neoliberalism (2013) Geopolitics, 18 (2), pp. 356-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2012.723289 Abstract This paper explores the ontological constitution of the neoliberal state. By enriching Michel Foucault’s work on neoliberal governmentality with Heideggerian reading of the ontological conditions involved in the process, the paper …

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Gane, N. The governmentalities of neoliberalism: Panopticism, post-panopticism and beyond, Sociological Review, Volume 60, Issue 4, November 2012, Pages 611-634 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02126.x Abstract This paper draws on the writings of Michel Foucault, in particular his lectures on biopolitics at the Collège de France from 1978-79, to examine liberalism and neoliberalism as governmental forms that operate through …

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Fryer D., Duckett P.: Publishing, Overview. In: Teo T. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology: Springer Reference (www.springerreference.com). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. Introduction Within the discipline of psychology publishing is widely positioned as ‘a good thing’. Within the discourse currently dominant, publication in ‘peer reviewed’ journals (publication of and in books is less favoured in psychology …

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Vrasti, W. Universal but not truly ‘global’: Governmentality, economic liberalism, and the international (2013) Review of International Studies, 39 (1), pp. 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210511000568 Abstract This article responds to issues raised about global governmentality studies by Jan Selby, Jonathan Joseph, and David Chandler, especially regarding the implications of ‘scaling up’ a concept originally designed to describe …

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Call for papers Hofstra University LGBT Studies Program and the Hofstra Cultural Center in New York present Hofstra’s Sixth Annual LGBT Studies Conference Michel Foucault 2014: Beyond Sexuality Thursday and Friday, March 27 and 28, 2014 PDF of Call for Papers Keynote Speakers: Dr. Roderick Ferguson, Professor of American Studies; Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; and …

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Ball, S.J., Olmedo, A. Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities (2013) Critical Studies in Education, 54 (1), pp. 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2013.740678 Abstract Resistance is normally thought of as a collective exercise of public political activity. In this article, Ball and Olmedo approach the question of resistance in a different way, through Foucault’s …

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Carolyn Hardin (2012). Finding the ‘Neo’ in Neoliberalism. Cultural Studies, 28(2), 199–221. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.748815 Abstract ‘Liberalism’ and ‘neoliberalism’ have become important shorthand terms in critical work that seeks to incorporate issues of economics into ideological and epochal analyses. Yet, these terms incorporate theoretical histories and refer to historical contexts so vast that they can seem ambiguous …

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