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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"pastoral power"”.
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The Art of Arts: Theorising Pastoral Power in the English Middle Ages
… and producing these subjects through ‘pastoral power.’ Charting the trajectory of these ideas from the ascetics of the early church through to fifteenth-century Middle English texts, I explore the dynamics produced by texts invested in producing this specific form of subjectivity as …
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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
… 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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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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Bridging the Gap Between Punishment and Care: An Ethnographic Study of the Breddon Women's Centre and its Relationship to the State
… as a white and heteronormative embodiment of power and bounds the Centre’s care work within this positioning. Furthermore, employing an embedded methodology, this research provides a unique glimpse into the functioning of the Breddon Centre, exploring the daily running of women’s centres and …
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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
… of 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 …
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Who Cares? the Role of Nursing Assistants in the Labor Process of Hospital Nursing
… the feminist methodology of "reading up the power structure," is the first study of hospital-based Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). Through interviews with 21 CNAs in a large, independent, urban hospital in the Midwest, the study examines how two major institutions have impacted the labor …
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Infant wellbeing and monitoring: An observation of the Road to Health Booklet in Masiphumelele
… interviews, looking at the state’s role of ‘pastoral’ care, child wellbeing and living in a township, and recording, under the theme of child wellbeing, certain concepts emerged. These concepts were state power, mothering, caring for children, responsibilisation, gender, kinship, fatherhood, …
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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity
… I employ Foucault's concepts of disciplinary power and pastoral power to demonstrate the effect Cassian's rhetoric would have upon his direct audience, as well as many other monks throughout history.</p>
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Sin and Theory: Martin Luther's Hamartiology in Dialogue with Critical Theory
… of this project is that Luther in fact offers powerful resources for reflecting on sin and the pathological more broadly, and that a retrieval, translation and reconstruction of his ideas is thus an important task for theology today. Yet there remain conceptual and theological challenges in …
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Open Access and Closed Discourses: Constructing Open Access as a 'Development' Issue
… relation to the notions of knowledge, truth, and power, as well as resistance, governmentality, and pastoral power. The manifestation of discourse in language is discussed with reference to Michel pecheux. The way in which discourses are dispersed unevenly in society is examined. It concludes with …