Foucault: 25 years on
A conference hosted by the Centre for Post-colonial and
Globalisation Studies,
Adelaide, 25 June 2009
Proceedings
Edited by Ian Goodwin-Smith
Published online by the Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia, Underdale, SA, 2009.
These conference proceedings have been peer reviewed.
ISBN 978-0-86803-827-8
Provocation
Twenty five years after his death, reflecting on Foucault is an enormous
task. His influence permeates disparate and innumerable fields and informs so
much of our thinking, along with that of many great theorists who have followed
him. Foucault's influence is one of ramifying and far-reaching interdisciplinary
complexity, but he draws us together too, providing a common theoretical
baseline to diverse disciplinary endeavours. He shows us the connections between
things. Just as his life and his work connect up theoretical pursuits as diverse
as queer theory and postcolonial studies, so his influence forges bridges between theorists. In so doing, Foucault's legacy muddies the
theoretical waters, forcing strange synergies and theoretical configurations
such as the antifoundational humanist. Growing from the murky ferment of French
colonial history, the father of poststructuralism's story is as complex as that
encounter, and his legacy is as mutating, unsettling and transformative. A
reflection on Foucault needs to accommodate a consideration of the enormity of
the shadow that such a legacy casts over continuing intellectual production.
Contents
Opening paper
Ian Goodwin-Smith
Reflecting on Foucault: taking what's required
Full text (PDF 25 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Matthew Ball
Foucault goes to law school: using Foucault to examine
Australian legal education
Full text (PDF 32 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Ryan Bishop
Keynote: The huntsman's funeral: targeting the sensorium
Full text (PDF 279 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 13 kb)
Gilbert Caluya
Foucault and everyday security: lessons from the
panopticon
Full text (PDF 31 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Terry Eyssens
Exception? What exception? Foucault's state of
convention
Full text (PDF 27 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Tony Fletcher
The war against Indigenous Australia/ns: Foucault,
racism and social work education
Full text (PDF 99 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Ben Golder
Foucault, anti-humanism and human rights
Full text (PDF 59
kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 12 kb)
Barry Hindess
Keynote: Liberalism and history
Full text (PDF 28 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 12 kb)
Steven Hodge
A Foucauldian strategy for vocational education and
training research
Full text (PDF 35 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 12 kb)
Chris Horsell
Foucault, social policy and homelessness
Full text (PDF 28
kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Katrina Jaworski
Deliberate taking: the author, agency and suicide
Full text
(PDF 29 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Jim Jose
Of 'strange synergies' and 'murky ferments': governance
discourse and the taming of the Foucault effect
Full text (PDF 34 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 12 kb)
Stephen Kerry
Are you a boy or a girl? Foucault and the intersex
movement
Full text (PDF 86 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Alexander Lambevski
Foucault, gay, subjectivity and the microsociology
of emotions
Full text (PDF 28 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 12 kb)
David McInerney
Oriental despotism and the political monsters of
Michel Foucault's Les anormaux
Full text (PDF 29 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 13 kb)
Leonie McKeon
Learning to speak Mandarin and understanding Chinese
culture is different not difficult
Full text (PDF 25 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Helen McLaren
Using 'Foucault's toolbox': the challenge with
feminist post-structuralist analysis
Full text (PDF 32 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Jack Roberts
A genealogy of public relations in the context of war
Full text
(PDF 24 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 11 kb)
Kate Seymour
Problematisations: violence intervention and the
construction of expertise
Full text (PDF 34 kb)
Abstract and biography (PDF 12 kb)
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