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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Power and Subjectivity"”.
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Readings in historico-geographical materialism
… comes to a close Marxism, as an intellectual and political force, is widely considered to be in a state of terminal decline. In the English-speaking world Marxism is often seen as essentially an economistic discourse, unable to deal with questions of power and subjectivity that have recently …
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Re-thinking workplace learning : worker subjectivity/ies as sites of alignment and resistance
… the way workplace learning is able to be known and spoken about and the effects of the contemporary privileging of an experiential learning discourse in the workplace. Following an analytic method outlined by Foucault, I explore a field of multiple and mobile force relations between professional …
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Conditioned by History: Experience and Critique in Foucault's Thought
… a priori”: rules that are at once transcendental and historical, and that, as such, serve as historically modifiable yet necessary conditions of what is knowable, sayable, and thinkable in a given period and at a given place. These conditions, this dissertation show in a second step, extend to …
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Respectability, morality and reputation: social representations of intimate partner violence against women in Cape Town
… amongst violent men, their social networks and within the media, and framed within social representations theory and feminist poststructuralism. In-depth individual interviews were conducted with 11 men, recruited from two men's programmes at an NGO, and seven focus group discussions were …
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Democracy promotion in a post-political world
… concerned with democracy promotion’s unexpected and often unheralded new role and trajectory. While having retreated from the limelight cast on democracy promotion in the early 1990s, the thesis argues that democracy promotion demonstrated considerable staying power in coming to work silently but …
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Stories of Resistance to Religious Authority: A Discursive Analysis
Abuses of power within certain religious communities have become a matter of public concern in recent decades. Less well known are the stories of people within local Christian communities who experience practices of religious authority which do not make headlines, but which nonetheless diminish the …
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A public silence : discursive practices surrounding homosexuality
… an elevated prevalence of mental health problems and suicide for men who have sex with men (MSM). Yet there is little research on how public mental health services (PMHS) does, or could, address the needs of MSM. When such literature does appear, a common suggestion is that queer staff will be …
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The Vocational Imperative: Kazuo Ishiguro's Fictions and the Discourse of Denial
… immersion in hegemony, combined with the demands of a disciplinary society, results in the internalisation of hegemonic values. This sophisticated understanding of the individual subject's relationship with his or her social environment puts Ishiguro in tune with ideas presented by various …
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Självets garderobiär : Självreflexiva genuslekar och queer socialpsykologi
In her widely quoted and criticised Gender Trouble, Judith Butler elaborates the idea that gender needs to be understood as performative – a certain kind of “doing” within the regulative realm of a hegemonic heterosexuality that is assumed to govern intelligible bodily configurations. Drawing …