Essays about: "knowledge-power"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word knowledge-power.

1. 1. The Making of "White Spaces" : The construction, disruption, and maintenance of stability in bipolar realities in Sweden

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Emma Larsen; [2023]
   Keywords : Medical anthropology; mental illness; bipolar disorder; treatment; mental health; anthropology of becoming; knowledge production; knowledge sharing; agency; power; knowledge-power; social anthropology; cultural anthropology;

   Abstract : Bipolar disorder is a condition rarely approached in anthropological research, and even less so through the eyes of people living with the disorder. Therefore, to focus on understanding the experience of the state in-between episodes, here referred to as a “white space”, is rare and in need of further examination. READ MORE

3. 2. A Foucauldian Approcach to Climate Change Discourse

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Leia Onsmark; [2022]
   Keywords : Climate change; Foucauldian critical discourse analysis; power; knowledge; responsibility; Canada; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis sheds light on the complexities of climate change discourse by applying Foucauldian discourse analysis to the Canadian 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan. Through a six-step analysis process, the thesis intends to investigate the effects of discourse on the understanding of climate change and the consequences of constituting knowledge through discourse. READ MORE

4. 3. Inevitable Algorimages : The Necropolitical Infrastructure of YouTube's Digital Dispositif

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

   Author : Leo Hansson Nilson; [2019]
   Keywords : YouTube; dispositif; control; power; archive; subjectification; algorithms; database; interface; necropolitics; infrastructure; mode of production; protocol; capitalism; machines; spectacle;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the relation between technology and the social, how they determine and naturalize each other, by examining YouTube's socio-technical infrastructure. YouTube is theorized as a dispositif that produces regimes of knowledge, power and subjectification within "control societies" characterized by an informational mode of production. READ MORE

5. 4. Change or Die : A study on the phenomenon of Library UX at two academic libraries in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Author : Sabina Lundberg; [2017]
   Keywords : User Experience; UX; Actor-network Theory; academic libraries;

   Abstract : A recent phenomenon within the library sector is that of User Experience (UX). Library and information practitioners are increasingly leaning towards letting their users help guide and organise library services by using UX methods to both evaluate existing services and to create new ones. READ MORE

6. 5. The Potential Catalytic Role of Green Entrepreneurship – Technological Eco–Innovations and Ecopreneurs’ Acts – in the Structural Transformation to a Low–Carbon or Green Economy: A Foucauldian Discursive Approach

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Simon Elias Bibri; [2014]
   Keywords : Discourse; episteme; green entrepreneurs hip; ecopreneurs; technological eco–innovations; low–carbon green sustainable economy; transformation; green and energy efficiency technologies; ICT; environmental; economic; political; social; ecological modernization; European society; Foucault; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Green entrepreneurship – technological eco–innovations and ecopreneurs’ acts – has recently received much attention from European policymakers as one promising response to the challenges of sustainable economic development due to its potential to catalyze and build a low–carbon or green economy. This topical relationship between green entrepreneurship and sustainable economy has also gained increasing interest among scholars. READ MORE