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Showing 1 to 20 of 256 for “"Foucauldian"”.
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Power, management and complexity in the NHS: a Foucauldian perspective
… narrative method of data collection and uses Foucauldian discourse analysis as a framework for exploring the underlying discourse in agent stories. The findings demonstrate the polyphonic nature of the secondary care context and reveal the demonstrate the polyphonic nature of the secondary …
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Responding to institutional child abuse in Ireland: a Foucauldian analysis
The research study was carried out, using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, (FDA) and involved the analysis of three statutory reports into institutional child abuse in Ireland: The Cussen Report (1936), The Kennedy Report (1970) and the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (2009). In addition to …
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Eco-anxiety. Constructing the term in psychology and psychotherapy. A Foucauldian discourse analysis
… approach, this study employed the method of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA) to analyse the data collected via eight semi-structured interviews with practising therapists. Four main constructions of eco-anxiety were identified within the broader discourses. These were: eco-anxiety as …
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Exploring "medically unexplained symptoms" with GPs and counselling psychologists : a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
… psychologists were undertaken and analysed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. Alongside underlying biomedical discourses, discourses of separation, mindbody dualism, psychology and holism were identified. These contributed to various constructions of "MUS", including "MUS-as-choice", …
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A Foucauldian Genealogical Analysis of Healthy Eating Education Materials in Ontario 1942-2015
… and Canadian health policies are combined with Foucauldian critical discourse analysis of selected classroom materials. The Grade 4 dietary self-analysis, based on the various forms of the food guide, from 1946, 1974 and 2011 are analysed and compared. Themes of truth, power and identity within …
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A Foucauldian exploration of the statutory authority defence to an action in nuisance
The thesis explores the use and limitations of the legal doctrine of statutory authority, as a defence to an action in nuisance. This historic defence has been reawakened, under section 158 of the Planning Act 2008, and its application has now been expanded to a wider variety of large-scale …
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The constitution, positioning and normalisation of 'The EAL Learner' : a Foucauldian-Phenomenographic study
… discourse around EAL is examined by applying a Foucauldian lens to governmental documentation on EAL and interviews with staff. The phenomenographic study, using interviews with BMLC learners, identifies the variation in the learners’ perceptions of what it means to be an ‘EAL learner’ in …
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Playing with ethics?: A Foucauldian examination of the construction ethical subjectivities in Ultimate Frisbee
… Hickey (2010), and Shogan (2007) have adopted a Foucauldian perspective to examine how those involved in sport and exercise might undertake a process of ethical self-creation. This interest in the formation of ethical sporting subjectivities resonated closely with my own experiences as an athlete …
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Socially constructing healthy eating: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of healthy eating information and advice
… institutions and the UK public. Method: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was applied to a range of healthy eating texts from both state and commercial sources. In addition, five focus groups were carried out to determine how the participants positioned themselves within the text’s …
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Whither Color-Blind Love? A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Love in Black and White
… Rights era, this study applies the key Foucauldian concepts of discourse, power, subjectivity, and critique to an interpretation of this text in relation to its sociohistorical context. Color-Blind Love emerges as the dominant discourse of the memoir and this Foucauldian discourse …
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Environmental integration in infrastructure planning: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of the trans-European transport network
… 'paradigm'. This thesis investigates how Foucauldian discourse analytics, embracing concepts of discourse, power/knowledge, rationality and space can contribute in sensitising planning research to power. A Foucauldian approach is developed which problematises the construction of …
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Psychotic creativity. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of alternative conversations about mental illness and mental health
… of interweaving, central to my study, uses Foucauldian discourse as an adaptable discursive analytic, locating individual action in the physical, social and organisational environments in which the action takes place. The data has revealed that, while the experience and treatment of …
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Subject positions of British South Asian women with inflammatory bowel disease: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… with eight BSA women with IBD and analysed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). The analysis revealed subject positions sourced in sociocultural and medical discourses. These were the Seeker Woman, the Private Woman, the Flawed Woman, and the Empowered Woman. These subject positions …
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Confronting White Femininity in Community-based Social Work Practice: An Autoethnography and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
… a minimum of two years in Alberta, Canada. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis and drawing from autoethnographic techniques, I trace the ways the participants perform, witness, and disrupt the dominant discourse of White femininity. The findings illuminate the social work profession's ongoing …
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Foucauldian Micropolitics and the Evolution of Party Polarization: Diverging Discourses in America's Two-Party System
… candidate convention speeches. By employing Foucauldian theories of micropolitics and biopower, a qualitative case study, critical discourse analyses, and ANES polling data, this study finds that not only have the parties been deploying drastically diverging discourses on issues of …
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Psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand: The Violence of Kindness. A Foucauldian Geneological History of the Present.
This research is a Foucauldian genealogical ‘history of the present’ in which the author analyses the discourses which make possible the practice of psychotherapy, initially informed by European clinical theory and philosophical principles, in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the effects of this practice. …
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Politics and curriculum: a foucauldian analysis of art education reform in New South Wales 1976 - 1999
… truth within the official curriculum texts. This Foucauldian re-reading of the archive in this investigation highlights the means through which discursive authorities seek to embody and give effect to governmental ambitions. It simultaneously examines the way in which the field of art education …
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A Foucauldian exploration of youth at-risk : the adoption and integration of conventional goals and values
This dissertation utilizes a Foucauldian perspective to explore the relationship between at-risk youth and the acceptance and integration of long-term conventional goals and values held by the general population. I posit that orthodox theories, which argue that youth who engage in delinquent …
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