Foucault News

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

William Tilleczek Receives the 2024 Leo Strauss Award for “Powers of Practice: Michel Foucault and the Politics of Asceticism”, Political Science Now, August 9, 2024 The Leo Strauss Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in political philosophy. Citation from the Award Committee: Dr. Tilleczek’s …

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He, X. Juxtaposition of English and Japanese native-speakerism: through the concept of the international university being a heterotopia (2024) Asian Englishes DOI: 10.1080/13488678.2024.2350085 Abstract Research on the native-speakerism ideology of different languages has demonstrated the unbalanced power relation created between those who are labeled as native speaker (NS) and as non-native speaker (NNS). While the …

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Martin Stokes, Music and Citizenship, Oxford University Press, 2023 Critical citizenship practices and the language of today’s populism have never been more sharply opposed. Today’s insistent efforts to anchor citizenship narratives in national belonging now confront a variety of ‘flexible’ or ‘differentiated’ citizenships – plural, performative, and decentered practices of rights claiming mutually defining ‘the …

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Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration Edited By Amanda McKay, Pat Thomson, Jill Blackmore, Routledge, 2024 This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities. The book makes a …

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Zaeemdar, S. Postfeminist technologies of authenticity: Examining the construction of authentic feminine selves in the neoliberal workplace (2024) Organization, . DOI: 10.1177/13505084231224363 Abstract This paper examines how the neoliberal injunction to be authentic as addressed to working women operates at the level of the individual. Drawing on Foucault’s framing of self-construction, the paper conceptualizes the …

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Nikidehaghani, M. Accounting and neoliberal responsibilisation: a case study on the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (2023) Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, . DOI: 10.1108/AAAJ-01-2023-6250 Abstract Purpose: This paper aims to explore how accounting is fostering neoliberal citizenship through the participants of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). More specifically, this paper aims to understand …

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Jardim, Fabiana Augusta Alves, López-Ruiz, Osvaldo, & Méndez, Pablo. (2024). Governamentalidades latino-americanas: tramas entre colonialidade e neoliberalismo. . Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Educação. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11606/9786587047669 Open access Includes interview with Colin Gordon Governamentalidade e além: entrevista com Colin Gordon Colin Gordon, William Walters, Martina Tazzioli Sinopse A presente coletânea inaugura a Coleção Desbordar …

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Kjærgaard, A., Bergmann, R., Blasco, M., Padan, T., Elliott, C., Callahan, J., Robinson, S., Wall, T. Subtle activism: Heterotopic principles for unsettling contemporary academia from within (2023) Organization DOI: 10.1177/13505084231167702 Abstract Research on academic activism tends to foreground vociferous and explicit forms of activism that pursue predefined political agendas. Against this backdrop, this article proposes …

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Bahmanteymouri, E., Mohammadzadeh, M. ‘Neoliberalism is dead’: Traversing neoliberal planning education is an exigency (2023) Policy Futures in Education DOI: 10.1177/14782103231181241 Abstract Neoliberalism has been the hegemonic ideology that has fundamentally transformed planning over the last four decades. Neoliberalism has significantly restructured pre-existing organisations, such as universities that were initially expanded during the period of …

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Kutay, A. From Social Sphere to Intermediary Association: A Critical Analysis of Civil Society’s Neoliberal Transformation (2023) Critical Sociology DOI: 10.1177/08969205231180263 Abstract In this paper, I examine the neoliberal transformation of civil society through Mitchel Foucault’s insights concerning knowledge, power, and governmentality. The objective of this paper is to trace the evolving understandings of civil …

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