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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Panopticism"”.
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Michel Foucault’s panopticism and dystopian discourses: the asymmetry of the gaze in philosophy and film /
… examines Michel Foucault’s concept of panopticism by considering its relationship with contemporary power relations and film mechanisms. By reconsidering the circumstances in which panoptic power dispositifs were established within the context of Foucault’s works, and by drawing on his …
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From Display of Force to Normalization: Exploring the Transformation of Power in China
… are more subtle and use elements of discipline, panopticism, and bio-power; rather than the spectacle of power associated with sovereigns and gristly punishment. This study uses Foucault to analyze the transition that seems to be occurring in China, in order to show that it should no longer be …
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A Girl's Best Friend? Implications of Friendship on Female Self-identity in Young Adult Literature
… looks at key theories of literature, including panopticism, subjectivity and the problem novel in their relation to mass-market literature for girls.
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Can You See Me? Ethnography of Women's Experiences with Homelessness in Denver, Colorado
… biopolitics, technologies of the self, and panopticism, as well as Goffman's presentation of the self, I make the case that the homeless experience is marked by social exclusion, which I found to be internalized and resisted in the lives of two women in a variety of ways. These findings are …
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From the Secret Garden to the Panopticon? Changing freedoms and the growing crisis in primary school headteacher recruitment.
… from a time of freedom to a landscape defined by Panopticism. The research suggests that a new paradigmatic shift is significantly changing the nature of primary headship with new forms of executive leadership and structures for leadership progression. Recommendations call for a reduction in the …
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‘A loose nerve’: Culture(s), Time and Governmentality in the biomedical treatment of Premature Ejaculation in Bangladeshi Muslim men
… spaces through the use of surveillance and panopticism. Participants in the trial both occupied and rebelled against this positioning, creating tensions and contradictions between meanings of PE and clinical practice that are in marked contrast to the recommendations of biomedical …
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Are You Known To Us? Inscribing a Gendered Body Through Play in the Public Built Environment
… authoritarian ownership. Foucault’s theory of panopticism is used to articulate this exercise of power. In reference to Magid and Templeton in particular, a concept of ‘romantic space’ is proposed in which intersubjectivity forms the basis of an antidote to this. The final development of my …
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Performing ethnography in a contemporary workplace : Disability discourse and the university administrator.
… Second, in respect of Foucault's thesis on panopticism, it shows how the texts, practices, and material/spatial contexts of administration serve to constitute the subjectivities of those who work in or make use of the administrative service. Third, the thesis shows how administrators strive …
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Schooling Gender in Rural Pakistan: An Ethnographic study of the Primary School and its Role in Gender Construction
… specifically regarding the Foucauldian work on panopticism, gazes and disciplinary practices. The gaze is generally focused on vision; but the ethnographic evidence presented here suggests that it also includes an aural dimension. Furthermore, my findings suggest that individuals have particular …
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Digitalization, Marketization and Authoritarianism in Ethiopia: Towards New Political Economy of Power [védés előtt]
… subjects as articulated via Foucault’s notion of panopticism, where visibility becomes a technique of control. The widespread fear of surveillance and lower perceptions of political freedoms captured in the survey data, particularly among mobile phone users, educated respondents and urban …
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The influence of cultural background on teaching and learning in synchronous online sessions
… double-consciousness (Du Bois, 1994) and even panopticism (Foucault, 1977) without being aware of it. Thus, the desired concept of multiculturalism (Richeson & Nussbaum, 2004) in virtual classroom teaching was not exercised. However, it was concluded that a virtual classroom can be used as a …
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Tradition and Discipline: The Evolution of the Caring Teacher Subjectivity in the Poiesis of the Saskatchewan Educational System
… respectability have been displaced by corporate panopticism. What is the future of this subjectivity? Should teachers care for their students anymore, or should they adopt a more ‘business-like’ stance? It is only through a careful examination of the historicity of this subjectivity and a …
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How Power and Control Drive Behaviour & Identity Modification Among Cruise Ship Workers: A Qualitative Study
This study explores the workplace experiences of maritime hospitality officers on cruise ships. The study aims to evaluate the complexities and common influences of both work and social experiences of cruise ship officers as they negotiate, create and modify their identities in the cruise ship …
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The Social Construction of Vulnerable Families in Children’s Centres: A Critical Discourse Analysis
In the UK, in an atmosphere of othering and labelling, a new label has emerged, that of vulnerable families. A key concern about the way many families are socially constructed because they are labelled as vulnerable, and the potential negative implications of that labelling. The role and use of …
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The Adolescent Rebellion against Panoptical Society: A Foucauldian Analysis of Adolescent Development in Contemporary Young Adult Novels.
<p>Young adult literature has developed from a didactic means of behavioral control over adolescents to a means of promoting the reader's psychological development as an independent individual. In contemporary works (1970s onward), the use of Foucault's theory of the Panoptical society has given …