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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"bio-power"”.
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Death, Power, and the Body: A Bio-political Analysis of Death and Dying
… life. Foucault labeled such strategies as " bio-power." While bio-power exists on many levels of society, my focus has been on certain medical technologies that have helped to expose the political nature of death by calling into question the time of death and who decides it. As the line …
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From Display of Force to Normalization: Exploring the Transformation of Power in China
… 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 viewed singularly …
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Between life and death : HIV and AIDS and representation in South Africa
… It engages with Michel Foucault's concept of "bio-power" to interrogate what kinds of subjects are produced when power seizes hold of life and, in particular, what becomes of subjectivity when the body is abandoned by power; and also draws on the work of cultural theorists Giorgio Agamben and …
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Panopticonned: The control methodology of fundamental Christian sects regarding members and their view of secular society
… Panopticon), til að útskýra hvernig lífvald (e. bio-power) er notuð til að stjórna meðlimum, og til að útskýra stjórnkerfið sem notað er innan trúfélaga. Einnig verður litið á afleiðingar öfga stjórnunaraðferða á andlega og líkamlegu heilsu meðlima. Að lokum mun ritgerðin skoða hvernig meðlimum …
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Cost and performance analysis of new wood-fuelled power plant concepts
… for the production of electricity from biomass. Process simulation models using AspenPlus aimed at calculating the industrial performance of power plant concepts were built, tested, and used for analysis. The criteria used in analysis were performance and cost. All of the advanced …
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Sovereignty and the Governance of Globalization: The Emergence of Empire or the Conquest of US Security Interests?
… so, Michel Foucault's theoretical construct of bio-power is analyzed as it relates to the constitution of sovereignty, and how it subsequently can benefit international relations theorists' understanding of how power may be implemented to help effectively govern, protect, and promote life on a …
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Normalizing Foucault
… In an attempt to answer the question, "If power cannot be separated from knowledge, then how can one use knowledge to critique forms of power?" I analyze and judge the arguments against Foucault's perspective by Nancy Fraser and Jurgen Habermas. I argue that the criticisms made by each are …
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A Foucauldian exploration of youth at-risk : the adoption and integration of conventional goals and values
… for these goals. I argue that Foucault's work on power and knowledge, more specifically the use of bio-power and the technologies of normalization, can be used as an explanation for how at-risk youth come to integrate and accept these conventional goals and fully participate in the creation of …
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Game, Set, Watched: Governance, Social Control and Surveillance in Professional Tennis
… major theoretical concepts of disciplinary power, governmentality, and bio-power are found relevant today and can be enhanced by Rose’s ethico-politics model and Haggerty and Ericson’s surveillant assemblage. However, it is also shown how Foucault, Rose, and Haggerty and Ericson’s different …
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Cultural governance and the formation of public service broadcasting: The early years.
… one, contributing to the on-going cumulative empowerment of the people. A further aspect of this liberalist narrative is that broadcasting becomes increasingly free of state interference and politically independent, thus making government and politicians more accountable to the public. Whilst …
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The subject in the big data era: reading fictions of algorithmic manipulation
… draws upon and extends Michel Foucault’s bio-power concept, to consider how algorithms herd subjects en masse, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language. My use of the latter interrogates to what extent the fact that algorithms are inscribed in code has had an influence on digital …
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Hungarian Representations of Motherhood and Childlessness: An Analysis of Post-Communist Developments with a Focus on Nök Lapja Magazine
… I strive to illuminate how gendered discourses, bio-power, history, and geo-politics are implicated not only in the construction of nationhood but also in defining women’s roles in nation-building. I hope to contribute to research that helps to better understand women’s contemporary social roles …
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The Normalising Power of Marriage Law: An Irish Genealogy, 1945 – 2010
… law is often conceptualised as an instrument of power that illegitimately imposes the will of the State on its citizens. Paradoxically, marriage law is also offered as a route to liberation. In this thesis, I question the efficacy of this type of analysis by investigating the actual power effects …
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ID Troubles: The National Identification Systems in Japan and the (mis) Construction of the Subject
… Drawing on the theories of Foucault’s bio-power and Agamben’s bare life, I explain how the national ID card systems enable the state to include and exclude people, use them for its own power, and produce subjects to support the state. Although this process is often hidden, the scheme is …
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Socially constructing healthy eating: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of healthy eating information and advice
… in relation to these discourses and the power relations between 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 …
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Wounded-healer healing: a first-person narrative inquiry into wounds as places of learning
… the therapeutic field is potentially a site for power, using the concepts of technology of the self, dividing practices and docile bodies and bio-power. Ideas of space, place and liminality are explored to expand the ideas around hospitality in wounded-healer work.
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Blood, society and the gift: An ethnography of change in the gift relationship
… qualitative data revealing blood as a target of bio-power, risk management and social exchange and a shifting dislocated new body part, and it sets out to challenge the orthodoxy of altruism as the rationale and justification for blood donation in modern Britain.
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Pregnant in Heels: A Critical Analysis of the Ideal, Maternal Body in Celebrity Magazines
… of the disciplining of docile bodies and biopower, along with Lyotard’s desire-based, libidinal economy, the literature on the public presentation of maternal bodies will be analyzed with focus on newly developed, rigorous appearance and fitness standards for mothers. Additionally, how …
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Romantic-Era Periodicals and the Rise of Population
<p>This study explores the convergence of two Romantic-era phenomena: the hotly contested public debate occasioned by the publication of T. R. Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) and the rise of the periodical press in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. My goal for this …
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Reproductive Injustice: Abortion Restrictions and Maternal Mortality Rates
This research establishes a statistically significant connection between maternal mortality rates and abortion restrictions from a reproductive injustice perspective, integrating the theory of necropolitics. Using a time-series cross-sectional analysis of all 50 U.S. states from 2009 to 2019, this …
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