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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"power/knowledge"”.
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Dementia within the Marital Sphere - Discourse, Power & Knowledge
… forces that in turn, produce and maintain the power of these forces, plus the dominant biomedical model of dementia. It also examined the role of family and marriage in the context of dementia. Method: Drawing upon Foucault’s work and discourse theory, professionally produced leaflets from …
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The Commodification of Nature: Power/Knowledge and REDD+ in Costa Rica
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is a global carbon trading program intent on mitigating or reversing carbon emissions from forestry in the global south. REDD+ was negotiated at the 2005 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is …
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Until lions learn to speak... placing the African oral tradition at the centre of power, knowledge, and media
The production of knowledge has become a matter of power rather than truth and can serve either serve as a tool of liberation or domination. This creative project seeks to explore the interaction of power, knowledge and media in Africa given its history with European colonialism. This period …
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The intersection of power, knowledge, shared perspectives, and participatory processes in organizational direction-setting: a study of a church
The abuse of power, dominance of certain shared perspectives, and reduction of personal values into so-called organizational core values are problems that plague traditional organizational direction setting. The purpose of this study was to explore how power intersects with the knowledge formation …
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Practice, power and learning in UK recorded music companies
… a practice-based approach to understanding how power, knowledge and knowing intermingle in organizations to facilitate/constrain individual access to opportunities for knowing-in-practice (learning). It explores how organizational mechanisms and technologies of regulation (re)construct and …
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Animals, Science and Gender: Animal Experimentation in Britain, 1947-1965
… firstly, exploring how scientific research forms power-knowledge relations through the use of nonhuman animals. Secondly, this thesis analyses the intersection of animal use in science with that of the broader socio-cultural context, asking was science in mid-twentieth century Britain gendered? As …
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Supporting prison inmates in education for life
… aim of this study is to investigate issues of power/knowledge (specifically, the use of the techniques of hierarchical observation, normalizing judgment, and examination) in an adult education initiative taking place in a prison context. The initiative, called the BRIDGE project, sought to …
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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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IMAGINING SPACE: DEVELOPING A CRITICAL GEO-LITERACY WITH MAPS AS PRIMARY SOURCES IN HISTORY EDUCATION
… space and place. Using Foucault's conception of power-knowledge relations, Deweyian notions of meaning-making, and complexity theory's idea of interobjectivity; these theoretical works inform the map as a constructed reality. While maps have been well-articulated as socio-political constructions …
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Power and Reason: The Construction of a Mathematics Teacher's Pedagogical Discourse and Practice
… context embedded within a particular network of power relations. His resistance also suggests strategies that the current power relations might be challenged. Lastly, the use of Foucault's theorization of power, knowledge, and subjectivity can help us explore the dialectic between the lifeworld …
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A Semiotic Phenomenology of the Boxers' Movements: A Contribution to A Hermeneutics of Historical Interpretation
… illustrate how history is reconstructed by the power/knowledge discourse. Within the concrete study of the Boxers' movements (abbreviated as BsMs hereafter) in China between 1898 and 1901, I have indicated the fundamental problem: the sources are insufficient and have to be examined …
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Environmental integration in infrastructure planning: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of the trans-European transport network
… theory is turning again towards the question of power, particularly in relation to recent claims to a new communicative planning 'paradigm'. This thesis investigates how Foucauldian discourse analytics, embracing concepts of discourse, power/knowledge, rationality and space can contribute in …
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Movimentos de resistência à monogamia compulsória: a luta por direitos sexuais e afetivos no século XXI
… genealogical method, a procedure that analyzes power relations operating in society and disseminating centers of power-knowledge, in which some discourses become hegemonic and others subaltern. The collective is revealed to have a political stance, since it articulates strategic, cooperative and …
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Navigating “Innocent” Conversations: Early Childhood Educator’s Rationales’ for Addressing Topics of Gender and Sexuality with Young Children
… early year classrooms. Using Foucault's (1980) power/knowledge and Held's (2006) ethics of care, I analyze how educators navigate discussions with children, highlighting their growing role as both facilitators and gatekeepers of sensitive topics. This shift stems from systemic pressures, …
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The doctor's view: Clinical and governmental rationalities in twentieth-century general medical practice
… certain influential approaches to medical power in general, and to the social consequences of 'emancipator' - person-centred - forms of medicine in particular. Specifically, the 'power/knowledge' approach to medical sociology is contested both with regard to its empirical findings and in …
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Negotiating fairness and diversity: Stories from an Aotearoa New Zealand kindergarten
… and diversity in the social world, alongside power/knowledge perspectives previously underexplored in existing working theories research literature. This Participatory Action Research study was located in a kindergarten community with 3- and 4-year old children in 2014. Using a theoretical …
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Readers in Pursuit of Popular Justice: Unraveling Conflicting Frameworks in <em>Lolita</em>
… various theories by Michel Foucault from <em>Power/Knowledge </em>and Louis Althusser’s “On Ideology,” I look into how John Ray, Jr., Ph.D. and Humbert Humbert use authoritative voices to directly address readers with a specific duty, as “parents, social workers, educators” and “ladies of the …
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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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The Impact of Visual Representations of Leadership in Tribal Dominated Societies: A critical qualitative study of aesthetic leadership in the United Arab Emirates
… perspective of interconnected concepts of power/knowledge, discourse, subjectivity, body symbolism and the power of gaze. The thesis draws on three related types of data: First, images to understand the leaders’ perspective. Second, interviews with artists to gain insights into the visual …
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