CFP for publication or other deadlineSeptember 15, 2026
Frontier Ethics: A Journal of Critical Humanities — Inaugural Special Issue: La naissance de Michel Foucault — Foucault at 100
Frontier Ethics invites multilingual submissions exploring Foucault’s thought, its afterlives, and its continuing relevance across Asia and the world.
Frontier Ethics: A Journal of Critical Humanities — Inaugural Special Issue: La naissance de Michel Foucault — Foucault at 100 | ESOL edit
The multilingual, peer-reviewed, open-access journal publishes original research in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, with a focus on critical inquiry across philosophy, history, science and technology studies, and the politics of life.
Special Issue Theme
The issue explores the afterlives, receptions, and continuing provocations of Foucault’s thought across Asia and the world. The editors particularly welcome contributions that:
Engage Foucault’s work from non-European contexts
Address his late lectures and unpublished seminars
Develop new genealogical approaches to contemporary problems
Examine Foucault in relation to bodies, borders, medicine, reproduction, race, coloniality, and the governance of life
Suggested Topics
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
Biopolitics, bioethics, and the politics of health and medicine
Feminist theory, queer theory, and the philosophy of sex and gender
Postcolonial and decolonial thought
Science and technology studies (STS)
History of medicine, psychiatry, and the life sciences
Critical disability studies
Foucault studies and genealogies of power
Vulnerability, recognition, and social justice
East Asian intellectual and cultural history
Philosophy of race and critical race theory
Environmental humanities and multispecies ethics
The journal welcomes work that is theoretically ambitious, historically grounded, and politically engaged, particularly research that crosses disciplinary and linguistic boundaries.
Submission
The special issue is presented as a call for contributions to the journal. Please consult the official call for papers for the applicable submission requirements and submission procedure.