Essays about: "Michel Foucault"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 105 essays containing the words Michel Foucault.

  1. 21. The portrayal of disability on the websites of the higher education institutions : A comparative critical discourse analysis on the web pages of disability services in Latvia and Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

    Author : Zane Blumberga; [2021]
    Keywords : Persons with disabilities; disability content; web pages; higher education; Latvia; Sweden; critical discourse analysis; Michel Foucault; inequalities; models of disability;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to critically examine and compare the web pages that provide disability content and information of ten selected Latvian and Swedish higher education institutions’ websites. The theoretical framework of the research is built upon the critical discourse analysis and Michel Foucault’s ideas of discourse and power while the analytical framework incorporates elements of Mullet’s (2018) framework of critical discourse analysis, Pauwels (2012) multimodal framework for analysing websites and the snapshot click study by Gabel et al. READ MORE

  3. 22. Shifting Responsibilities: Constructing Threats and Restricting Autonomy : A Discourse Analysis on the Housing and Settlement of People Seeking Asylum in Sweden

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Julia Harmgardt; [2021]
    Keywords : WPR; discourse theory; policy; refugees; asylum seekers; people seeking asylum; migration; segregation; EBO-legislation; housing; integration; refugee settlement;

    Abstract : Sweden, like Europe, has had an increased influx of people seeking asylum in recent years, instigating restrictive measures within the Swedish asylum regime. Simultaneously as the sustainability of settlement and housing policies for people seeking asylum has been the subject of large political debate, restrictive methods such as a minimum rights approach has been adopted, putting the Swedish asylum regime at the edge of the European Convention. READ MORE

  4. 23. “Where you think no one sees you – do what you want!” : Nineteen Eighty-Four and Upper Secondary School Students’ Perception of Surveillance

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Tobias Svensson; [2021]
    Keywords : George Orwell; surveillance; panopticism; post-panopticism; student perspective; EFL;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to juxtapose students’ perceptions of surveillance to the surveillance portrayed in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. By using Michel Foucault’s expansion of Jeremy Bentham’s discussion of the Panopticon, this essay shows that upper secondary school students modify their behaviour, like the characters in the novel, when they are under surveillance. READ MORE

  5. 24. EUROPE 2020: TOWARDS A NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY? Neoliberal Dreams and Diffractive Awakenings

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Georgios Eleftherios Vordos; [2020-12-28]
    Keywords : Europe 2020; neoliberalism; biopolitics; diffraction; critical frame analysis; governmentality; European Union; inclusive growth;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the Europe 2020 strategy is of neoliberal nature and aims to adjust every aspect of life to be market-conforming. Furthermore, it examines if the target for an inclusive growth was achieved and who ended up benefitted from it. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Brexit Subject : Cognitive Capitalism and Biopolitical Production in Post-Referendum Fiction

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Emma Flodqvist; [2020]
    Keywords : Brexit Fiction; Brexit Literature; BrexLit; Autumn; Middle England; The Cockroach; Perfidious Albion; The Friends of Harry Perkins; The Wall; The Cut; Cognitive Capitalism; Immaterial Labour; Creative Labour; Cultural Labour; Gig Economy; Biopower; Biopolitics; Biopolitical Production; Bioproduction; Subjectivity; Precarity; Casualization; Subject Formation; Patriotism; Collectivism; Individualism.;

    Abstract : This thesis explores precarization of work and subject formation in seven post-referendum Brexit novels through theories of cognitive capitalism and biopolitical production. The analysis is anchored in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s reconceptualization of Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics. READ MORE