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portada Foucault for the Rest of Us. A Plain-Language Guide to Power, Knowledge, and Why Things Are the Way They Are
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
98
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 0.50 cm
ISBN13
9798255249398

Foucault for the Rest of Us. A Plain-Language Guide to Power, Knowledge, and Why Things Are the Way They Are

Page Turner (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

Foucault for the Rest of Us. A Plain-Language Guide to Power, Knowledge, and Why Things Are the Way They Are - Page Turner

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Synopsis "Foucault for the Rest of Us. A Plain-Language Guide to Power, Knowledge, and Why Things Are the Way They Are"

What if the most important ideas about power, knowledge, and freedom were locked behind impenetrable academic prose?
Michel Foucault's ideas are urgently practical. They explain how hospitals, schools, prisons, and governments actually work. They reveal why certain kinds of knowledge count as "truth" while others are dismissed. They show how people are sorted, shaped, and managed by systems that seem to have no author.

But most people will never encounter these ideas in a form they can use.

Foucault for the Rest of Us changes that. This book takes Foucault's major concepts and renders them in the language that thoughtful, busy people actually think in. No jargon without explanation. No academic gatekeeping. Just the ideas, clearly stated, with examples from education, public health, development, surveillance, and political life across the Global South.
Chapters cover power, discourse, archaeology, discipline, the Panopticon, biopolitics, sexuality, the subject, governmentality, resistance, and the care of the self. Critical perspectives from feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial thinkers are woven throughout. The final chapter provides a practical toolkit for activists, educators, and organisers.

If you work in education, health, development, or social justice anywhere in the world, you are living inside the systems Foucault analysed. This book gives you the tools to see them clearly.

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