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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Technologies of the self"”.
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The Myth of good character: assessing the performance of nursing and midwifery pre-registration students using a modified Delphi approach
The requirement for pre-registration student nurses and midwives to demonstrate good character is detailed in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) quality assurance framework for higher education institutions (NMC, 2016a). This study used a qualitative methodology, interpreted through a …
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Modern Myth and Masculine Character: Revealing the fit 'self' in MTV's I Used to Be Fat
Through an analysis of MTV's television show I Used to Be Fat, this paper looks at reality television and the weight-loss format in particular, as expressions of the coming into being of the modern subject within the contemporary culture of self-revelation. Through the cultural myth of fast …
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Can You See Me? Ethnography of Women's Experiences with Homelessness in Denver, Colorado
<p>Following the economic crisis in 2008, the United States, and Denver in particular, saw a considerable rise in the number of people considered homeless. Despite an increase in the population, little anthropological research has been done to understand the experiences of street-embodied …
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"Our Father Isaac": Reading the Sahidic Testament of Isaac in an Egyptian Monastic Context
<p>This dissertation argues that the textual community of fourth or fifth century monastic Egypt read <em>Testament of Isaac</em> as an ascetical regimen in order to transform themselves into children of Isaac. <em>T. Isaac</em> highlights three particular dimensions of Isaac's character from the …
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The influence of organisational control practices on knowledge production
This study explores the relationship between knowledge creation and organisational and managerial control. I explore how organisational control impacts, influences, shapes, fashions and lay the foundation for the creation of the various types of knowledge within a research organisation. In …
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Foucault, Affect, History: On the Art of Feeling
While the work of Michel Foucault has not generally been thought to engage in questions of affect, I argue that his work entails a meaningful engagement with such questions but in a way that challenges how we tend to think about affect. Drawing from Foucault’s oeuvre, I enter a series of dialogues …
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Sport/utility vehicles as technologies of the suburban self: The only civilized way to leave civilization
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the transactional and transformative relationships between automobiles and their owners/drivers. Using the sport/utility vehicle as a case study, I show how both the automobile and its user go through transformations of meaning. These transformations take …
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Families and the State: Relations of dependency, responsibility and educational inequality in Singapore
… disadvantaged families in Singapore navigate the opportunities and constraints of Singapore’s education system. Singapore’s education system is widely emulated for its performance on international education benchmarking tests. However, there is growing recognition of persistent educational and …
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The masks of Mnēmosynē: modulations of memory from ancient Greece to modern Paris
This thesis traces some of the modulations in the figuration, role and functioning of memory from the Mycenaean civilisation to the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece before taking up a reading of the modern continental philosophical engagements with this inheritance and the question concerning …
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How do counselling psychologists in the UK construct their responsibilites to the wider world? : a Foucauldian discourse analysis
Counselling psychology’s Professional Practice Guidelines state that "counselling psychologists will consider at all times their responsibilities to the wider world". (Division of Counselling Psychology, 2005, p.7). It is suggested that the way in which counselling psychologists construct their …
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Self-care will take you to freedom: weight-loss reality TV shows in South Korea
"Body-care is regarded as an efficient form of self-care for ordinary Korean females in order to transform themselves into an acceptable part of society. There are two goals for this project. The first is to examine the ways in which dominant ideologies of the Korean female body and body-care are …
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Re-thinking workplace learning : worker subjectivity/ies as sites of alignment and resistance
The concern of this thesis is 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 …
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Concerns of The Self 1800/1900: Freud and The Making of Modern Subjectivity
This thesis draws on conceptual tools developed in Michel Foucault’s late work on ‘technologies of the self’ to historically reposition The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), not as the inaugural text of the ‘psychoanalytic movement’, but instead as belonging to a long-standing tradition of practices …
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE TO THE FAPLESS MASCULINITY:A DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE R/NOFAP COMMUNITY ON REDDIT PROMOTING ABSTENTION FROM PORNOGRAPHY CONSUMPTION AND MASTURBATION.
This study examines the NoFap phenomenon, a homosocial digital movement promoting abstinence from pornography and masturbation to overcome self-diagnosed porn addiction and “compulsive sexual behaviors”. Critical literature on the topic has identified heterosexist, patriarchal, and misogynistic …
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Living Language Policy Through Stratified Space: A Linguistic Ethnography in the United Arab Emirates
This project explores the lived language policy experiences of a group of foreign residents (noncitizens with fixed-term visas) who live in Ras Al Khaimah, a small city in the United Arab Emirates. The primary set of participants are staff and students recruited from a private language school in …
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French Philosophy and New Media: Sartre, Foucault and Stiegler on the Technics of Existence
This thesis examines Bernard Stiegler’s revivification of the technologies of the self as an alternative to technologies of psychopower. It discusses the relevance of care as the exercise of freedom in the age of new media, which is seemingly reinforcing structures of control and …
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Representations of the Care of the Soul in Early Christian Texts
… ancient Greco-Roman philosophies as the pursuit of abstract knowledge. He proposes instead conceiving of these philosophies more broadly as sets of practices that focused on “the care of the self/soul.” Such care involved exercises (“technologies of the self”) effecting both identity …
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Tinkering with Food and Family: Striving for Good Care in an Eating Disorder Treatment Centre in Italy
This thesis examines practices of care in an Italian public treatment centre for people diagnosed with anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Drawing on patient-focused anthropological accounts of eating disorders as ‘technologies of the self’, and on existing ethnographic works that have highlighted the …
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Experiences of Older Undergraduate Students in Higher Education: Constructions of Age and Gender
Normative conceptions of age, as with other social markers such as gender, inform how persons are perceived by self and others. This thesis provides a critical view of ways in which age intersects with gender in the context of higher education in Britain. Located with the backdrop of discourses …
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An ethnographic study of lunchtime experiences in primary school dining rooms
The issue of school meals has recently come to the fore of UK government policy with reforms to school food occupying a pivotal position in ameliorating public health and educational concerns, from tackling the "obesity epidemic" to improving children's academic attainment, performance and …
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