Michel Foucault

The main thrust of this study argues that failure to account for the notion of power in considering learning in social contexts—like a working environment—inevitably presents an incomplete and unrealistic account of how learning actually is. Literature suggests that mainstream s…

Over the past decade, the United Kingdom has witnessed a proliferation of civil-military initiatives that have engendered overt and celebratory displays of support for the British Armed Forces. This thesis interrogates two of these initiatives: the annual public relations event …

This dissertation aims to study a case of contradiction between Foucault's social practice in his articles on the Iranian revolution and his theories of the "subject", of the "pluralism of centers of power of resistance," and of the notion of "the author". The disparity between …

This dissertation develops the underspecified political consequences of what I call the category of practices of ethical self-overcoming. This grouping consists in Michel Foucault’s ethics of the care of the self; Pierre Hadot’s “spiritual exercises;” what the French sociologist…

This thesis makes a historically grounded theoretical contribution to an emerging “critical” approach to refugee studies. Utilising the insights of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt, it seeks to reconceptualise academic and policy understandings of what has come to be known as “…