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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"disciplinary power"”.
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The Power of Resurrection: Early Christian Resistance Through the Rise of Disciplinary Power
… and development of what Michel Foucault calls disciplinary mechanisms of power. It sets out to explore two questions, first, what were the theoretical conditions that led to Christianity's rapid expansion? And second, what were the historical precursors to the mechanisms of disciplinary power? …
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Progress in question: a qualitative thematic analysis of disciplinary power, and Black senior leadership in Canadian policing
… workforces. This study examines the disciplinary proceedings of former Toronto Police Superintendent Stacy Clarke, analyzing tribunal discourse – court documents, promotional policies, exhibits, and testimonies – and related media coverage to interrogate how race, discipline, and …
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Towards a critical historiography of orthodox-revisionist debates on the origins of the Cold War: between disciplinary power and U.S. national identity
… in the way that it negotiates challenges to disciplinary practices and boundaries.
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Disciplinary Themes in Aristotle's Political and Ethical Writings
… relationship between Foucault's conception of disciplinary power and the philosophical ideas of ancient Greece as exemplified by Aristotle. Foucault claims that disciplinary power arose only in the 17th and 18th centuries. This thesis demonstrates that there are similarities and parallels …
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Power, resistance and Spanish Residential School
… explores the relationship between exercises of disciplinary power and acts of resistance as they relate to the negotiation of identities at Spanish Residential School between the years of 1878 and 1930. The school itself, originally Wikwemikong Industrial School, was administered by the Jesuits …
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‘If paying tithing means that you don’t have enough money to feed your family, pay tithing’: Examining power through the law of tithing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
… Michel Foucault and his research on Pastoral and Disciplinary Power, this paper explores the ways in which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints maintains its membership in an increasingly secular age. This analysis reveals that the Church employs a transfigured form of Pastoral Power …
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Mobile terms in the conceptual architecture of Michel Foucault's 'Productive Power'
… in Michel Foucault’s work on Productive Power. I identify five mobile terms in Foucault’s work, which move between different power-knowledge configurations. The chosen mobile terms are ‘production’, ‘population’, ‘prediction’, ‘the subject’, and ‘the norm’. The conceptual content of each …
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The influence of organisational control practices on knowledge production
… aspect, I draw on the Foucauldian toolbox using disciplinary power, pastoral power, and technologies of the self. Thereafter I develop a conceptual model in which I integrate knowledge creation and organisational control mechanisms.
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Governing mother-child communication about sex in HIV/AIDS epidemic : positioning Lovelines
… in families - and self-responsibilization of disciplinary power. This finds mothers governmentally positioned as relay points between 'public' (health, economy) and 'private' (family, childrearing, sex) apparatuses, tasked with appropriately socializing a new generation of sexually responsible …
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The birth of the machista : changing conceptions of the Nicaraguan masculine
… Moreover, it relies on a Foucauldian analysis of disciplinary power to explicate the foundations of said conceptions as well as to develop new understandings of the idea of machismo. Following analysis of an interview series and a thorough review of relevant literature, this thesis places …
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A liberdade de Foucault no interior de suas fronteiras
… the field of ethics. In the relationship between power and freedom, Foucault analyses how the subjected subject to power exercises its freedom. The aim of the research is to analyse how the subjected subject is able to carry out practices of freedom. In the first moment, the notion of power and …
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The Ethics of Care of the Self as Resistance to a “Peculiar Institution”
… operate, I turn to Michel Foucault’s concept of disciplinary power. After discussing the problem of the pervasiveness of modern ethical theories, I conclude by making a case for Foucault’s ethics of the care of the self as a way of addressing the problems raised by Stocker and others.
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The Hidden Hand: Systematic Oppression Cloaked as Education
… agency. Using Michel Foucault’s theory of disciplinary power, this analysis examines how attendance requirements, standardized testing mandates, parents’ rights, and schoolwide behavior systems are enacted and understood by educators, parents/guardians, and students. Data was gathered in a …
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Game, Set, Watched: Governance, Social Control and Surveillance in Professional Tennis
… bodies. Foucault’s 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 …
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Direito administrativo disciplinar: estudo de caso sobre o controle disciplinar na Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos
This paper discusses the Administrative Disciplinary Process, investigating how the post office, public company under private law, and the legal status of its staff the Consolidation of Labor Laws and respective complementary legislation establishes its procedures on internal rules for the …
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“Of unsound mind”: a history of three Eastern Cape mental institutions, 1875-1910
… insights into the character and uses of disciplinary power implicated in the production of 'regimes of truth' about the mentally ill. The Eastern Cape institutions provide an important record of the ways in which the power invested in psychiatric theory and practice was exercised in a …
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Disciplinary Mythologies: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis of Performance Enhancement Technologies in Sports
… formation of a new theoretical framework called disciplinary mythologies. Building off of Foucault's disciplinary power, Scott's disciplinary rhetorics, and Barthe's mythologies, disciplinary mythologies are discrete units of persuasion that both construct and constitute claims by drawing upon …
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When Dyspraxia Meets Dyslexia At 11+
… on the political surface of their body by disciplinary power. This inscription tends individuals to conformity to the single truth of the dominant power through hierarchical observation, normalisation and the examination. I argue that power is weighted in favour of the professionals. …
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Archetypes and the unthought: The projection of the King’s Court in New Zealand television media
… Foucault’s conviction that the unthought is the power that is linked to every mode of knowledge. The thesis argues that knowledge in relation to thought is limited because the knowledge is surrounded by an immense region of shadow. In an ontology based on thought only it is shown how the Shadow …
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Mastering the Story/Storying the Master: Philosophy of Education Discourse and Empire
… I look at how racism has shifted from sovereign power to disciplinary power to biopower as a mode of population management, operating not only through race but through gender and class distinctions as well. I analyze the racialized narrative conventions of liberal modern Enlightenment philosophy …
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