The Foucault Effect 1991-2011
A Conference at Birkbeck College, London: June 3rd-4th 2011
CONTRIBUTOR PROFILES
Daniel Defert
Daniel Defert (born 1937) is a prominent French AIDS activist and the founding president (1984-1991) of the first AIDS awareness organization in France, AIDES. He started the organization after the death of his partner, the French philosopher Michel Foucault. He is an alumnus of the Écolenormalesupérieure de Saint-Cloud.
A professor of sociology, Daniel Defert has been Assistant (1969-1970), Maître-assistant (1971-1985), then Maître de Conférence (from 1985) at the Centre Universitaire of Vincennes, which became in 1972, Université de Paris VIII Vincennes. He has been a member of the scientific committee for human sciences of the International Conference on AIDS (1986-94); member of the World Commission for AIDS (World Health Organization) (1988-93); member of the National Committee for AIDS (1989-98), of the Global AIDS Policy Coalition of Harvard University (1994-1997), and of the French "Haut Comité de la Santé Publique" (from 1998).
Daniel Defert is author of numerous articles in the domain of ethno-iconography and public health. He has been awarded the decoration of Chevalier de la Légiond’Honneur and received in 1998 the Prix Alexander Onassis for the creation of Aides.
Daniel Defert met Foucault while he was a philosophy student at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France and their relationship lasted from 1963 until Foucault's death in 1984. Foucault described their relationship as a "state of passion". It was Foucault's death from AIDS, a disease about which little was known at the time, that led Defert to enter the field of AIDS activism. He also co-edited with François Ewald Dits et Ecrits of Michel Foucault (1994), a posthumous collection of Foucault's thought.
Interview: “I believe in time…”
List of publications at
Peter Fitzpatrick
Peter Fitzpatrick is currently Anniversary Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London and Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Kent. In 2007 he was given the James Boyd White Award by The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. He has taught at universities in Europe, North America and Papua New Guinea and published many books on legal philosophy, law and social theory, law and racism, and imperialism, two of the recent ones being Law as Resistance (Ashgate, 2008) and with Ben Golder, Foucault’s Law (Routledge, 2009). Outside the academy he has been in an international legal practice and was also in the Prime Minister’s Office in Papua New Guinea for several years.
Maria Carolina Olarte
Maria Carolina Olarteis reading for a PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her fields of interest include modern constitutionalism, the biopolitics of constitutional design and transitional justice expertise, and the current influence of the field of law and economics. Her doctoral thesis seeks to develop a critique of the biopolitical character of modern constitutional design and transitional justice schemes through a problematization of a series of economic knowledges which, ultimately, lead to the consolidation of a corrective constitutionalism. Her research is particularly concerned with the economic intervention of death through calculability devices deployed in the identification and counting of human remains in so-called conflict and post-conflict scenarios.
Graham Burchell
Translator of seven volumes of Michel Foucault’s lectures, and of writings by Deleuze and Guattari,Veyne,Donzelot and others.Co-editor and co-author, The Foucault Effect.
Selected articles:
“Peculiar Interests: Civil Society and Governing 'The System of Natural Liberty'”, inTheFoucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality (1991)
Liberal government and techniques of the self.IN Andrew Barry, Tom Osborne, Nikolas Rose (Eds.) Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, neo-liberalism and rationalities of government. London, University College London (1996)
‘Confession, resistance, subjectivity’, Journal for Cultural Research, 1740-1666, Volume 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159 – 177
Colin Gordon
Colin is Clinical IT Programme Manager at Royal Brompton Hospital, London.
Edited and co-authored publications:Michel Foucault,Power/Knowledge, 1980; (with Graham Burchell and Peter Miller);The Foucault Effect, 1991.
Introduction and selection of contents: Michel Foucault, Power: Essential Writings, volume 3 (New Press 2001.)
“Foreword: Pedagogy, Psychagogy, Demagogy ”, in Governmentality Studies in Education (Contexts on Education)Peters, Michael A. Besley, A. C. Olssen, Mark (eds), Sense 2009.
“La réception de l’Histoire de la foliechez les historiens et les géographes : l’exemple anglo-saxon”, inFolie et justice : relire Foucault, Philippe CHEVALLIERandTim GREACEN(eds),ERES 2009, Paris.
With Jacques Donzelot, ‘Governing Liberal Societies – the Foucault Effect in the English‐speaking World’Foucault Studies, No 5, pp. 48‐62, January 2008
Review of Michel Foucault, History of Madness.Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2005)
‘Foucault in Britain’. In A. Barry , N. Rose & T. Osborne (Eds), Foucault and political reason. London: UCL Press, 1996, pp. 253-70
‘Histoire de la folie : an unknown book by Michel Foucault’ in Rewriting the History of Madness: Studies in Foucault's Histoire de la folie, eds. Arthur Still and Irving VelodyLondon: Routledge, 1992.
1987. “The Soul of the Citizen: Max Weber and Michel Foucault on Rationality and Government.” In Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity. Scott Lash and Sam Whimster, eds. Pp. 293-316. London: Allen and Unwin.
(1986) `Question, Ethos, Event: Foucault on Kant and Enlightenment' ,Economy and Society 15(1): 71-87.
Patrick Hanafin
My research looks at the intersection between law and identity, in particular the manner in which particular narratives of identity are adopted and valorised in law by political and judicial elites.
My aim in this research is to develop a means by which political and legal structures can be transformed to accommodate different identities and ways of being. This work has involved looking at how a particular construction of Irish identity was embedded in the Irish Constitution of 1937 and the subsequent shift in this notion through gradual social, cultural and political change in my book Constituting Identity: Political Identity Formation and the Constitution in Post-Independence Ireland (Ashgate, 2001). In addition, I have examined how such exclusionary notions of identity construction are at play in relation to bioethical policy both in Ireland, and in my latest book, Conceiving Life: Reproductive Politics and the Law in Contemporary Italy (Ashgate, 2007), in the context of the law and policy in relation to human reproductive technology in Italy.
Recent Publications
- Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures(with RosiBraidotti and Claire Colebrook), (Palgrave/Macmillan), (2009).
-“Politica Della Vita: CittadinanzaRiproduttiva e ‘PotereSovrano’ Dell’Embrione” in A. Catania & F. Mancuso, (Eds), Nattura e Artificio: Norme, corpi, soggettitradiritto e politica, (Milan: Mimesis, 2011), pp. 97-121.
- “An Ethics for Dead Voices: Law and the Politics of Sexual Difference in Dacia Maraini’sIsolina” Law and Humanities Vol.4, No.2, (2010), pp.195-209.
- “Refusing Disembodiment: Abortion and the Paradox of Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Italy”, Feminist Theory, Vol.10, No.2, (August 2009), pp.227-244.
- “Voicing Embodiment, Relating Difference: Towards a Relational Legal Subjectivity”, Australian Feminist Law Journal Vol.29, (December 2008), pp.77-90.
Bernard Harcourt
Recent lecture material online (French language):
Fabienne Brion, Bernard Harcourt: Le pouvoir de la vérité. Trois lectures de 'Mal faire, dire vrai', de Michel Foucault
Bernard is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law, the Chair ofthe Political Science Department, and Professor of Political Science at The University of Chicago. Professor Harcourt's scholarship intersects social and political theory, the sociology of punishment, and penallaw and procedure. His latest book isThe Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2011) and the co-editor with Fabienne Brion of Michel Foucault's Mal faire, dire vrai(forthcoming in French at Presses Universitaires de Louvain and in English at the University of Chicago Press). He is also the author of Against Prediction: Punishing and Policing in an Actuarial Age(University of Chicago Press 2007), Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press 2005), and Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken-Windows Policing (Harvard University Press 2001). Harcourt isthe coauthor of Criminal Law and the Regulation of Vice (Thompson West 2007), the editor of Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America (New York University Press 2003), and the founder and editor of the journal Carceral Notebooks.
After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Charles S. Haight Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and then worked as an attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, representing death row inmates. He continues to represent death row inmates pro bono, and has also served on human rights missions in South Africa and Guatemala.
Peter Miller
Peter Miller is Professor of Management Accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Head of the Department of Accounting, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation. Prior to joining LSE, he was a Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Sheffield. He has been an Associate Editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society since 1988. He has published more than 50 articles in accounting and management journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, the European Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Management Accounting Research, and the Academy of Management Review, as well as in a range of other social science journals such as Economy and Society, the British Journal of Sociology, Theory, Culture and Society, Theory and Society, Sociology, Cultural Values, and Social Research. He has also published four books, including Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice (co-edited with Anthony Hopwood, Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Accounting, Organizations and Institutions, with C.S.Chapman and D.J.Cooper (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life, P. Miller and N. Rose (Polity Press, 2008
Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice, with A. Hopwood, 1994 (Cambridge University Press).
The Foucault Effect: Studies In Governmentality, G. Burchill, C. Gordon and P. Miller (eds.) (University of Chicago Press, 1991; Simon & Schuster, 1991).
Domination and Power (London: RoutledgeKegan Paul, 1987).
The Power of Psychiatry, P. Miller and N. Rose (eds.) (Basil Blackwell/Polity Press, 1986).
Giovanna Procacci
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Giovanna Procacci is Professor of Sociology at Milan University and past President of the European Sociology Association.
Selected publications
Gouverner la Misère. La question sociale en France 1789-1848. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1993.
La scoperta della società. Alle origini della sociologia, with Arpad Szakolczai. Roma:
CarocciEditore, 2003.
De la responsabilité solidaire. Mutations dans les politiques sociales d’aujourd’hui. (co-editor, co-author). Paris: Syllepse, 2003.
The Health of Migrants: access, rights, citizenship and political representation. (co-editor) Palgrave Macmillan, Aldershot (UK), forthcoming.
Conflicts, Citizenship and Civil Society..(co-editor, co-author). London: Routledge, 2010.
“Governmentality and Citizenship”, in Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, eds.A.ScottK.Nash. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, pp.340-351; republished in paperback, 2003.
"Governing Poverty: Sources of the Social Question in Nineteenth-Century France", in Foucault andthe Writing of History, a curadiJ.Goldstein. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994, pp.206-219.
“Social economy and the government of poverty”, .in The Foucault Effect. Studies in Governmentality (1991)
“Sociology and Its Poor”Politics & Society June 1989 17: 163-187
"The Thin Man: On Life and Love in Liberalism" (with Wolfgang Fach), 1987.Telos76 (1988), pp.33-50
Paul Patton
Paul Patton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales
Books (selected)
(2000) Deleuze and the Political, Routledge.
(2000) Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Co-editor with Duncan Ivison and Will Sanders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2010) Deleuze and the Postcolonial.Co-editor with Simone Bignall.Edinburgh University Press.
(2010) Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics. Stanford University Press.
Recent book chapters.
2010 ‘Multiculturalism and Political Ontology’ in Duncan IvisonedThe Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism, Ashgate Publishing, 57-71.
2010 ‘Foucault and Normative Political Philosophy’ in Timothy O’Leary and Christopher FalzonedsFoucault and Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell, 204-221.
2009 ‘Foucault’ in David Boucher and Paul Kelly edsPolitical Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 575-595.
2009 ‘Events, Becoming and History’ in J. A. Bell and C. Colebrook edsDeleuze and History, Edinburgh University Press, 33-53.
Recent articles
2011 ‘Life, Legitimation and Government,’ Constellations, 18:1, 35-45.
2009 ‘Rawls and the legitimacy of Australian Government,’ Australian Indigenous Law Review, 13:2, 59-69.
2007 ‘Derrida, Politics and Democracy to Come,’ Philosophy Compass, Volume 2, Issue 6, November, 766-780.
2007 ‘Deleuze and Derrida on the Concept and Future of Democracy,’ Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, No. 15, October, 7-23.
2007 ‘Utopian Political Philosophy: Deleuze and Rawls,’ Deleuze Studies, 1:1, 41-59.
Jonathan Simon
Before joining the UC Berkeley School of LawBoalt Hall faculty in 2003, Simon was a professor at the University of Miami School of Law. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan from 1990 to 1992. He clerked for the Honorable Judge William C. Canby Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1988-89).
Simon teaches courses on criminal law, criminal justice, law and culture, risk and the law, and socio-legal studies. His scholarship concerns the role of criminal justice and punishment in modern societies, insurance and other contemporary practices of governing risk, the cultural lives of law, and the intellectual history of law and the social sciences. Simon is a faculty associate of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice.
Simon is the author of "Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass," 1890-1990 (1993) and the co-editor of "Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility" (with Tom Baker, 2002) and "Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism" (with Austin Sarat, 2003); "After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy and the New Reconstruction" (with Mary Louise Frampton and Ian Haney Lopez, 2008). His most recent book is "Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear" (2007) winner of the 2008 Book Prize of the Sociology of Law section of the ASA and the 2010 Hindelang Prize of the American Society of Criminology.
Simon is a faculty associate of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice.
During the 2010 and 2011 academic year Simon has been a MacCormickFellow and LeverhulmeVisting Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. His latest project is a book on California's medical/legal prison crisis titled, Mass Incarceration on Trial.
Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear, New York: Oxford University Press (2007)
Issues in Legal Scholarship, Catastrophic Risks: Prevention, Compensation, and Recovery, Article 4, (2007)
Parrhesiastic Accountability: Investigatory Commissions and Executive Power in an Age of Terror, Parrhesiastic Accountability: Investigatory Commissions and Executive Power in an Age of Terror, 114 Yale. L. J. 1419 (2005)
Reversal of Fortune: The Resurgence of Individual Risk Assessment in Criminal Justice, 1 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 397-421 (2005)
Risk and Reflexivity: What Socio-Legal Studies Add to the Study of Risk and the Law, 57 Alabama Law Review 119-139 (2005)
Fearless Speech in the Killing State: The Power of Capital Crime Victim Speech, North Carolina Law Review, 82 N. Carolina. L. Rev. 1377 (2004)
Teaching Criminal Law in an Era of Governing through Crime, Saint Louis University Law Journal, 48 St. Louis U. L. J. 1313 (2004)
Fabienne Brion
Professor of Criminology – UniversitéCatholique de Louvain
The guiding principle of my researches is the study of the cultural criteria by means of which illegitimate discriminations are converted into legitimate distinctions in liberal democracies. Special attention is given to crime and to its relationships with other cultural criteria, whether they are implicitly given up for self-evident or explicitly justified by theoretical discourses.
Recent lecture material online (French language):
Fabienne Brion, Bernard Harcourt: Le pouvoir de la vérité. Trois lectures de 'Mal faire, dire vrai', de Michel Foucault
Éthique et politiquedans les sociétéslibéralesavancée, in J. Ch. Lemaire et P. Laclémence, Imaginer la sécuritéglobale, 2005, La Pensée et les Hommes, 48/57, p. 115-134
Féminité, minorité, islamité. Questions autour du Hijâb, Louvain-la-Neuve : Academia-Bruylant, 2004
Contre la défense culturelle. De la discrimination positive à la décriminalisation, Bruxelles : Larcier, 2009
with Rea Andrea, Inmigracion, delinquencia y discriminacion en Belgica, Madrid, 2008, p. 193-234
Des classes à la population ? Formules de gouvernement et détention, Chicago : Carceral.org, 2008, p. 23-44
Ben Golder
Ben Golder is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. He holds undergraduate law and English literature degrees from UNSW and a doctorate in legal theory from the University of London. Prior to joining the faculty, Ben taught law at the University of East London, University College London, Birkbeck College and New York University in London. His relevant publications on Foucault include:
Foucault’s Law (Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009) (with Peter Fitzpatrick)
Michel Foucault: Law, Government, Rights( ed. - Routledge, forthcoming in 2011)
Foucault and Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010) (ed. with Peter Fitzpatrick)
`The Distribution of Death: Notes Towards a Biopolitical Theory of Criminal Law`, in New Critical Legal Thinking: Law, Politics and the Political, ed by Matthew Stone, IllanRua Wall and Costas Douzinas (London: Birkbeck Law Press, forthcoming 2011)
`Foucault`s Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights` (2011) Social & Legal Studies (forthcoming)
`What is an Anti-Humanist Human Right?` (2010) 16(5) Social Identities 651-668
‘Foucault and the Unfinished Human of Rights’ (2010) 6(3)Law, Culture and the Humanities 354-74
‘Foucault and the Incompletion of Law’ (2008) 21(3) Leiden Journal of International Law 747-63
‘Foucault and the Genealogy of Pastoral Power’ (2007) 10(2) Radical Philosophy Review 157-76
Stuart Elden
Stuart Elden is Professor of political geography at Durham University and the editor of the journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. He is the author of, among other works,Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History (Continuum 2001) andthe co-editor of Space, Power and Knowledge: Foucault and Geography (Ashgate 2007, with Jeremy Crampton). His most recent books are Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and Reading Kant’s Geography (edited with Eduardo Mendieta, SUNY Press, 2011). Between 2008 and 2011 he was funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship writing a book entitled The Birth of Territory, forthcoming in 2012.
VéroniqueVoruz
Lecturer, School of Law, University of Leicester