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Showing 1 to 20 of 202 for “"governmentality"”.
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Neo-liberalism, socialism and governmentality : has socialism yet developed an autonomous governmentality?
… and 1979 series Foucault outlined the concept of governmentality, which he divided into two subcategories: the police-state and liberalism. He also considered socialism’s relationship to governmentality. In this instance, however, he argued that socialism had yet to produce an autonomous …
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Networked governmentality in China: rules, interpretation, and algorithms
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Binge-Restrict-Repeat: The Governmentality of Eating Regimes
… employs Michel Foucault's conceptualization of governmentality, or dispersed rationalities that seek to calculate and maximize the health of the population, to study how eating regimes of truth influence how individuals relate to their bodies and each other. Importantly, the study of eating …
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Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality'
… Foucault's theorisation of 'discourse' and 'governmentality', it traces the interweaving of restitution's legislative concepts with heterogeneous political and cultural discourses emanating from District Six's unique history. It is argued that the hybridised configurations of discourse …
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(Un)disciplined Performativity: Anonymity, Identity, and Governmentality on Yik Yak
Anonymous social media platforms, like Yik Yak, have been at the center of public controversies surrounding the proliferation of trolling, bullying, and gendered and racialized violence. This has led to a renewed scholarly attention to forms of anonymity and pseudonymity deployed in cyber-spaces …
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The McDonaldized Death Penalty: Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and American Capital Punishment
… Dean (2010), drawing on Foucault's treatment of governmentality, calls reflexive government. </p>
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Refracted Governmentality: Space, Politics and Social Structure in Contemporary Luanda
My thesis argues that political authority produces very particular regimes of informality. The description of the city of Luanda that I undertake is concerned with explaining the process of political transformation. The city of Luanda was mostly built during colonialism to spatially accommodate …
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The Urban Poor, Civic Governmentality and the Problem of Participation
… civic affairs. Drawing on theories of neoliberal governmentality the study traces how civic participation facilitated by the SA SDI Alliance manifests nationally through policy and at the provincial and local government level. The ultimate objective of the thesis centres on how participation under …
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Weaving the Tapestry of Life: The United Nations and Global Governmentality
… Tapestry of Life. The United Nations and Global Governmentality My doctoral research evolves around the question how the Secretaries-General have been constructing the UN as a peculiar subject in world politics, and how this construction is linked to the cognitive structures in which global …
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Governmentality: the new urbanism and the creative class within Atlanta, Georgia
… how current urban growth machines mobilize governmentality as a political instrument. Specifically, this study examines two features of this mobilizing, the rhetoric of growth machines that speaks to what a space is and means, and the actual outcomes that creates a material, semiotic-infused …
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Illness as ethical practice: Truth & subjectivity, governmentality & freedom in HIV/AIDS discourse
… and possibilities of truth, subjectivity, governmentality and freedom. This is attempted via an analysis of the specific case of HIV/AIDS. In the 1980s there emerged a variety of competing ways to construct the truth of HIV/AIDS. By the early 1990s, however, one particular way of thinking …
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Governmentality: Welfare, Health and Higher Education as Sites of Agency, Resistance and Identity
… and are examined, using Foucault's notion of 'governmentality', in an overview.<br/><br/>The projects were designed and conducted during a particular era in history (characterised as 'risk society' or 'reflexive modernity'), dominated by a particular political ideology (characterised as …
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I Thank Therefore I Am: Postcolonial Affective Governmentality of Higher Education in Pakistan
… framework of postcolonial affective governmentality, analyses and theorises the colonial patterns of thinking and feeling that underlie the dynamics of postcolonial higher education in Pakistan. For this purpose, it first maps the colonial genealogy of the postcolonial higher …
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The Politics of Conspiracy Theory and Control: Cybernetic Governmentality and the Scripted Political
… the United States. I utilize Michel Foucault's governmentality approach to formulate a cybernetic governmentality methodology, which analyzes the governance of subjectivity in and through cybernetic systems of communication. Cybernetics, which seeks to invite the individual subject to realize …
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Exploring the Links between Camp governmentality and Agentic Responses of Rohingya Refugee in Bangladesh
The debate is that a particular form of governmentality is acknowledged in the different studies on refugee camps governance but those studies consider only the power of state actors and humanitarian organizations. This thesis found that consideration incomplete and partial view of camp operations …
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GROWING 'COMMUNITY', PLANTING RESPONSIBILITY, SOWING GOVERNMENTALITY: SINGAPORE'S COMMUNITY GARDENS AS SPACES OF INCLUSIONS AND EXCLUSIONS
… `community? may be understood as a technique of governmentality, the thesis seeks to understand how and why CIB gardens, despite its purported benefits as spaces of inclusions, are also necessarily spaces of exclusions. The thesis proceeds in two parts. Firstly, I show how community gardening in …
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