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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"knowledge/power"”.
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Knowledge, Power, and International Development: Beyond Critique
Knowledge and power are important in international development. Michel Foucault, a theorist of power, conceptualised knowledge and power as being in a dynamic and reciprocal relationship (Foucault, 1980 p52). This thesis explores the relationship between knowledge and power, focusing on my …
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Local government citizen academies : is knowledge power?
… not trained to understand and integrate "local knowledge" --the specific expertise and on-the-ground information brought by local citizens--with technical information and bureaucratic processes. As a result, communication with the public is often constrained as citizens perceive government as a …
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The geopolitics of hurricane knowledge: Power, vulnerability, and transboundary science in the Caribbean
… forecasting in the Caribbean is built upon a power imbalance. The United States assumes a dual role, issuing hurricane predictions for both its domestic mainland and the islands of the Caribbean. These forecasts, while shared abroad at no direct monetary cost, hold tremendous value: an …
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A Decolonial Perspective of Knowledge, Power and Place in the Eastern Cape Education System
… has a complex history of contested places and knowledges. Through colonization and apartheid, places of importance were taken from the indigenous people and the education system aimed to colonize their minds. These issues of place and knowledge tend to be studied separately; however, they grew …
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All for One, but Not One for All: The Knowledge/Power Struggle and Its Effect on Teacher Autonomy
… assessment serves to squelch equity and enforce power structures of bureaucracy through superseding the state curriculum in English-Language Arts. A mixed methods study was created to measure differences in teachers' attitudes regarding their perceived freedom of pedagogical practice within …
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Discourses of Power and Resistance in the Water Policy Process of Delhi, India
… to explain how and why particular types of knowledge, practices and values get established in policy as well as the complex interplay of knowledge, power and agency in water policy processes of NCT Delhi, India.
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Modernity and politics of the self : an investigation of the political project underlying the work of Michel Foucault
… of the human subject, and its interaction with power. Foucault offers a unique and controversial description of both the latter. After positing that his work is both coherent and political in nature, the dissertation investigates Foucault's books, lectures, interviews and articles throughout his …
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College students' image of nursing as a career choice
… ideal career as consisting of four factors--knowledge, power, stability, and technical. They identified nurse career as consisting of five factors--activity, value, power, knowledge, and stability. Nursing students identified the ideal career as consisting of four factors--value, stability, …
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Reading Ideology in Discourse: A History, Theory, and Case Study
… is the critical perception of the forces of power and domination and the means through which they are instituted in the social system. This is a significant feature of the concept of ideology, a term whose articulation immediately signifies relations to knowledge, power and domination. The …
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Fashion's Influence on Garment Mass Production: Knowledge, Commodities and the Capture of Value
… fashion is a complex and influential form of knowledge. It explores the effects of fashion ideas on the global garment system through a case study of the ideas and commodity flows that bring fashions and garments to the Australian market. It traces the interconnections between global knowledge …
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Lost in Translation: The Legal appropriation of the voice of child sexual abuse victims in Ireland
… from feminist studies, Foucault‘s theory of knowledge and power and postcolonial/subaltern theories to highlight the foundations of the knowledge constructions involved. This critical approach is brought to bear on the aspects of knowledge, power, discourse and voice encountered in the data …
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An Investigation into the Phenomenon and Discourse of Working Out Loud.
… (Hinchcliffe, 2015). Given such claims, and that knowledge of the phenomenon is nascent within the literature, Working Out Loud is deemed a suitable topic of research. Review of the literature and scrutiny of the phenomenon’s claims revealed a number of what might be termed ‘structural tensions’ …
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Knowledge for development? : reflections from consultants and advisors in Bolivia
Knowledge has been a central part of development discourses in the last 40 years. Development organisations have been concerned with its production and dissemination across developing countries with the purpose of eradicating poverty. This thesis focuses on the processes of knowledge production and …
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Portraits of patients and sufferers in Britain, c. 1660-c. 1850
… of sufferers and patients inscribed the medical knowledge that doctors sought to disseminate by embodying ‘expert’ visual skills. Finally, in wider cultural contexts, they expressed what was medical about the relationships that contemporaries conducted. These findings propel the histories not …
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Conditioned by History: Experience and Critique in Foucault's Thought
… is conditioned by historical a priori forms of knowledge, power, and subjectivity. Finally, the dissertation shows that these conditions form the limits of critique: critique of the present is only available for those historical-transcendental conditions that are already in the process of …
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Health, the Body, and Movement: What Is Health and Physical Education For? A Critical Policy Analysis of Health and Physical Education Curriculum Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand, China, and Japan
… Drawing on Foucauldian concepts of discourse, knowledge/power, and problematisation, this thesis combines Norman Fairclough’s textually oriented discourse analysis and Carol Bacchi’s “What’s the Problem Represented to Be?” approach to conduct a critical comparative policy analysis of HPE …
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An explorative study of Congolese "bouncers" in Cape Town: constructing masculine identities in liminal spaces
… as, at their core, they share concerns with knowledge, power, violence (in various forms) and identity. In the attempt to understand the subjective experiences and realities of these Congolese bouncers, the methodology employed for the collection of data was entirely qualitative in nature; …
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Gamekeeper turned poacher: discursive shifts in apprenticeship reform in England, 2011-2021
… of possibilities’ from an analysis of ‘knowledge, power and subject’ (k-p-s) relations. Good use of what Dowling calls ‘conceptual spaces’ and what Bravenboer terms ‘discursive spaces’ is made in the finding of oppositions and alliances identified within each text.
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I Thank Therefore I Am: Postcolonial Affective Governmentality of Higher Education in Pakistan
… have continued to shape the postcolonial knowledge ecosystems in different ways. This study, by using the post-Foucauldian framework of postcolonial affective governmentality, analyses and theorises the colonial patterns of thinking and feeling that underlie the dynamics of postcolonial …
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'French like the others': Colonial Migrants in Wartime France, 1939-1947
… from across the empire met forms of colonial knowledge, power, and discipline. Focusing on the inherent tension between France and its empire, rather than constructing an intellectual framework that subsumes France and empire together, reveals the true impact of colonialism on metropolitan …
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