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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Foucauldian Theory"”.
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The Social Impacts of Street-involved Youths’ Participation in Structured and Unstructured Leisure
… comprised of two papers, both of which utilize Foucauldian theory. In the first paper, I examine the impacts of street-involved youths’ participation in Health Matters, a leisure program for street-involved youths in Ottawa, Canada. In the second paper, I examine street involved youths’ …
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A Struggle Against the Odds: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Canadian Hockey League (CHL) Players
… of Canadian Hockey League (CHL) players using a Foucauldian theory-based analysis. Specifically, this thesis contends that power relations between players and CHL hockey authorities need to be critically assessed. The CHL is the world’s leading developmental junior ice hockey league. Comprised of …
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Gay identity formation: An (auto)ethnographic look at gay volleyball
… for autoethnographic writing; I draw from Foucauldian theory to provide an archaeological, genealogical, and ethological look at gay volleyball culture; and I manage to evade veridical claims that would otherwise essentialize or reify gay identity. In the end, I argue for the benefits of …
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Be-coming subjects: reclaiming a politics of location as radical political rhetoric
… political stance that grounds feminist theory in accountability for the situatedness of knowledge production. I extend Rich's phrase to theorize how radical, lesbian feminists have used a politics of location as a signifying practice to construct alternative subjectivities and assert …
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Negotiating the fertile body : women's life history experiences of using contraception
… cases). This thesis uses a feminist approach and Foucauldian theory to explore this phenomenon by addressing the gaps in current understanding namely the situated and subjective experiences of contraception use over the life course. Using a qualitative life history method and map-making, this …
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Ethics in translation : an exploration through art, dramatization, literary and political texts
In Foucauldian theory, any interpretation is an act of violence, since no text is ever stable and fixed in its meaning. Underlying my thesis is the idea that all translation is interpretation . As such, an ethics of translation can only be found in and measured by the amount of violence, which a …
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A Discursive Study of how Mental Health Social Workers Constructed their Professional Selves within the Context of National Health Service Mental Health Services
… of the NHS mental health services. I used a Foucauldian approach and the notion that professional identity is a socially constructed sense of self, produced from discourses, subject positions and a process of subjectification. Twelve social workers were interviewed; seven mental health social …
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Reconfiguring housing governance in Glasgow post-stock transfer: regulatory and liberatory possibilities
… transfer, this thesis takes inspiration from Foucauldian theory to argue that tenant empowerment embodies regulatory as well as liberatory possibilities, for it is not simply a radical political project aimed at increasing citizen control but fundamentally a strategy of government aimed at …
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Power, accommodation and resistance: A Foucauldian perspective on how internal management controls are compromised in Chinese hotels
… few researchers have adopted a qualitative Foucauldian approach. This thesis employs a Foucauldian approach to investigate how internal management controls have developed within the Chinese hospitality industry. Method Two approaches are employed to investigate the research question: …
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The subject of television: a methodology of subject-oriented textual analysis
… frameworks of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Foucauldian poststructuralism, this thesis begins by arguing that images, gazes, and visual experience are both beholden to and constitutive of subjectivity. The key themes from this discussion of subjectivity – visual history, spectatorship, …
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A public silence : discursive practices surrounding homosexuality
… social constructionist perspective, I argue that Foucauldian theory and its analysis of the relationships between discourses, power, and subjectivity, enables research to focus on the social and structural processes constructing mental health care for MSM. This thesis explores the discursive …
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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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Doing the damage? An examination of masculinities and men's rugby experiences of pain, fear and pleasure
… of fear and pleasure. Thirdly, I used Foucauldian theory to analyse the men's interview accounts rather than drawing on the Gramscian inspired concept of masculine hegemony. The results suggested that rugby was typically linked to dominating discourses of masculinities, through …
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Breast Dressing: A Critical Review of Post-Surgical Bras
<p>Breast cancer is acknowledged in the United States as a phenomenon. With more than 3 million women either diagnosed or treated for it as of 2019, it is a seminal part of the American healthcare map. However, the market for the kinds of bras and bandages patients have to wear after surgery …