Foucault bibliographies

There are two extremely useful bibliographies of Foucault available online.

One bibliography, by Machiel Karskens of Radboud University, Netherlands covers all publications by Foucault in chronological order. Last updated January 2005.

A second bibliography, by Richard Lynch of Depauw University is available through Clare O’Farrell’s website. Last updated June 2007.

In my own work, I find myself using the Lynch bib more often as not only is it more frequently updated, but it also lists all the English translations of the shorter (non-book) works. But both are good, careful bibliographies.

New Lynch bibliography

Richard Lynch has updated his bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works.

This is the single most useful and accurate listing of all the shorter works (it is even more complete than Dits et Ecrits) and is absolutely essential for Foucault scholarship.

Is Foucault popular?

How popular is Foucault? If you hate Foucault and think he’s over-rated, or if you love Foucault and think he’s being unfairly criticized, now you can at least see what people are saying about him.

As Oscar Wilde said: “there’s only one thing worse than people talking about you, and that’s people not talking about you.”

Biopower bibliography

Here’s a “biopower” bibliography. This is more difficult because of a related word in biofuels that is not relevant. But I’ve winnowed it down as best I could.

There are 35 articles.

Agnew Cochran, E. 2006, “”The Full Imago Dei” The implications of John Wesley’s scriptural holiness for conceptions of suffering and disability”, Journal of Religion, Disability and Health, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 21-46.

Amoore, L. 2006, “Biometric borders: Governing mobilities in the war on terror”, Political Geography, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 336-351.

Atzert, T. & Peters, F. 2006, “About immaterial labor and biopower”, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 58-64.

Bäckstrand, K. 2004, “Scientisation vs. civic expertise in environmental governance: Eco-feminist, eco-modern and post-modern responses”, Environmental Politics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 695-714.

Bourgois, P. 2000, “Disciplining addictions: The bio-politics of methadone and heroin in the United States”, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 165-195.

Callaghan, L. 2003, “Biomass: The age-old renewable fuel Legislation facilitating technical and commercial development”, Refocus, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 22-24.

Comaroff, J. 2007, “Ghostly topographies: Landscape and biopower in modern Singapore”, Cultural Geographies, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 56-73.

Dillon, M. & Reid, J. 2001, “Global liberal governance: Biopolitics, security and war”, Millenium, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 41-66.

Duncan, M. 2004, “U.S. federal initiatives to support biomass research and development”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 7, no. 3-4, pp. 193-201.

Farquhar, J. & Zhang, Q. 2005, “Biopolitical beijing: Pleasure, sovereignty, and self-cultivation in China’s capital”, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 303-327.

Fullwiley, D. 2004, “Discriminate biopower and everyday biopolitics: Views on sickle cell testing in Dakar”, Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 157-194.

Hannah, M. 2006, “Torture and the ticking bomb: The war on terrorism as a geographical imagination of power/knowledge”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 96, no. 3, pp. 622-640.

Holmberg, B. 2005, Biomass coordinating council of the Americas over the top with biomass producing biofuels, biopower, and biobased products.

Koch, L. 2004, “The meaning of eugenics: Reflections on the government of genetic knowledge in the past and the present”, Science in Context, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 315-331.

Kohrman, M. 2003, “Why am I not disabled? Making state subjects, making statistics in post-mao China”, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 5-24.

Landzelius, M. 2006, “‘Homo Sacer’ out of left field: Communist “slime” as bare life in 1930s and Second World War Sweden”, Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 453-475.

Luke, T.W. 2000, “Beyond Birds: Biopower and Birdwatching in the World of Audubon”, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 7-37.

Luke, T.W. 2000, “The Missouri Botanical Garden: Reworking biopower as florapower”, Organization and Environment, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 305-321.

Moreton-Robinson, A. 2006, “Towards a new research agenda?: Foucault, whiteness and indigenous sovereignty”, Journal of Sociology, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 383-395.

Oels, A. 2005, “Rendering climate change governable: From biopower to advanced liberal government?”, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 185-207.

Padovan, D. 2003, “Biopolitics and the social control of the multitude”, Democracy and Nature, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 473-496.

Pálsson, G. 2002, “The life of family trees and the Book of Icelanders”, Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, vol. 21, no. 3-4, pp. 337-367.

Philo, C. 2001, “Accumulating populations: Bodies, institutions and space”, International Journal of Population Geography, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 473-490.

Ragauskas, A.J., Williams, C.K., Davison, B.H., Britovsek, G., Cairney, J., Eckert, C.A., Frederick Jr., W.J., Hallett, J.P., Leak, D.J., Liotta, C.L., Mielenz, J.R., Murphy, R., Templer, R. & Tschaplinski, T. 2006, “The path forward for biofuels and biomaterials”, Science, vol. 311, no. 5760, pp. 484-489.

Rai, A.S. 2004, “Of monsters: Biopower, terrorism and excess in genealogies of monstrosity”, Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 538-570.

Renault, E. 2006, “Biopolitics and social pathologies”, Critical Horizons, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 159-177.

Richey, L.A. 2004, “Construction, control and family planning in Tanzania: Some bodies the same and some bodies different”, Feminist Review, , no. 78, pp. 56-79.

Rock, M. 2003, “Death, taxes, public opinion, and the midas touch of Mary Tyler Moore: Accounting for promises by politicians to help avert and control diabetes”, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 200-232.

Sanchez, L.E. 2004, “The global e-rotic subject, the ban, and the prostitute-free zone: Sex work and the theory of differential exclusion”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 861-883.

Shanklin, E. 1998, “The profession of the color blind:1 Sociocultural anthropology and racism in the 21st century”, American Anthropologist, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 669-679.

Sinnerbrink, R. 2005, “From Machenschaft to biopolitics: A genealogical critique of biopower”, Critical Horizons, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 239-265.

Welland, T. 2001, “Living in the ‘empire of the gaze’: Time, enclosure and surveillance in a theological college”, Sociological Review, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 117-135.

Bio-politics, biopower

Bio-politics and biopower are big issues right now. I don’t know how many articles I’ve seen recently that examine something through the notion of these concepts. Part of the reason seems to be that Giorgio Agamben picked them up from Foucault.

Both terms are used extensively as keywords in this year’s AAG Meetings.

Foucault bibliography

One of the most useful bibliographies of Foucault’s shorter works in English is maintained by Richard Lynch. I use it all the time to see where the Dits et écrits entries have been translated. It is available here on Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault website.

For example, here are entries from 1984 by DE number:

357 1. “An aesthetics of existence” L. Kritzman, ed., Politics, philosophy, culture: interviews and other writings, 1977-1984 (New York: Routledge, 1988), pp. 47-53. Translated by Alan Sheridan.
2. “An aesthetics of existence” S. Lotringer, ed., Foucault live (interviews, 1966-84) (New York: Semiotext(e), 1989), pp. 309-316. Translated by John Johnston.
3. “An aesthetics of existence” S. Lotringer, ed., Foucault live (interviews, 1961-1984)
(New York: Semiotext(e), 1996), pp. 450-454. Translated by John Johnston.

358 1. “Sex, power and the politics of identity: an interview” The advocate nº 400 (August 7, 1984), pp. 26-30, 58. English original.
2. “Sex, power, and the politics of identity” P. Rabinow, ed., Ethics: subjectivity and
truth (New York: New Press, 1997), pp. 163-173.
3. “Sex, power and the politics of identity” S. Lotringer, ed., Foucault live (interviews,
1961-1984) (New York: Semiotext(e), 1996), pp. 382-390.

360 1. “Of other spaces” Diacritics (Spring 1986), pp. 22-27. Translated by Jay Miskowiec.
2. “Different spaces” J. Faubion, ed., Aesthetics, method and epistemology (New York:
New Press, 1998), pp. 175-185. Translated by Robert Hurley.

Sometimes a piece is translated by different people which is useful to know. Sometimes only part of the piece is reprinted (Lynch notes where this is the case).

Lynch also provides two appendices of work not in DE, and of other works in English. At the moment, there are 12 of these.