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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"technology of the self"”.
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Reading Selves/Writing Selves: Tracing the Intellectual History of Writing as a Technology of the Self
<p>From the advent of writing in the ancient Mediterranean world, people have found ways to forge a connection between their selves and the text. Whether by means and for purposes of representation, translation, or presentation of the self, writing as a technology has long functioned as a method of …
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The necropolitical crisis of racial subjectivity in the South African postcolony: black consciousness as a technology of the self and the limits to transformation
In this thesis, I problematize whether Steve Biko's Black Consciousness Philosophy, reread as an affective and psychic Foucauldian technology of the self can operate as a strategy of psychic repair and transformation for pathological racialised subjects, produced by Necropolitical governmentality …
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Self-care will take you to freedom: weight-loss reality TV shows in South Korea
"Body-care is regarded as an efficient form of self-care for ordinary Korean females in order to transform themselves into an acceptable part of society. There are two goals for this project. The first is to examine the ways in which dominant ideologies of the Korean female body and body-care are …
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Concerns of The Self 1800/1900: Freud and The Making of Modern Subjectivity
This thesis draws on conceptual tools developed in Michel Foucault’s late work on ‘technologies of the self’ to historically reposition The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), not as the inaugural text of the ‘psychoanalytic movement’, but instead as belonging to a long-standing tradition of practices …
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Nature and the Victorian entrepreneur : soap, sunlight and subjectivity
At the heart of any philosophical exercise lies an understanding, be it explicated or taken for granted, of Nature. This thesis explores how Nature may have come to be understood as it is in our everyday life in the late twentieth century.The life and work of one Victorian Entrepreneur - William …
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Intersections Between the Life Stories of Internationally-Trained Immigrant Women and Institutional Narratives of Immigrant Success in Ontario
The following dissertation compares the life stories (Linde, 1993) of six internationally trained immigrant women, successful in finding employment in their fields of post-secondary teaching, with video success stories available on a government webpage for bridge training in Ontario and with …
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Theatre : the art of human being : locating the cultural value of theatre in the Age of Broadcast Media and a retrospective paper on the process leading towards the 2000 performance Involving Eternity
This essay is concerned with the position of theatre as cultural commerce in the postmodern milieu of electronic broadcast media. It is the partial fulfillment of an MA degree in Theatre Making as studied from a performer's perspective. The other part of my final project was comprised by the 2000 …
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Wounded-healer healing: a first-person narrative inquiry into wounds as places of learning
This thesis is a first person narrative inquiry into my life as a woman in midlife, leaning into and learning from my ‘woundedness’—with a focus on relational-wounds. Making wounds ‘useful’ and the idea of providing ‘hospitality’ as a healer is explored as part of my professional practice as a …
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Dress as therapy: Working with dress on the self in therapeutic settings
This thesis constitutes a critical analysis of “dress as therapy”. Hitherto unconnected dress-related therapeutic approaches to the self, rooted in different countries and medical disciplines, are brought together, systematically documented and critically scrutinised for the first time: “Therapy of …
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Discoursing performativity for 21st century education: an ethnographic study of high-achieving 6th form students completing A-Level study and progressing into higher education in the UK from Brook College
This thesis reports on an ethnographic case study, informed by the critical frames of postmodernism and poststructuralism, and offers a critical evaluation of qualitative-interpretive methodology alongside a discussion of substantive issues. Primarily, I focus on neoliberal performativity in the …