Världen står inför hållbarhetsutmaningar som innefattar konflikter, fattigdom och naturkatastrofer. Forskning visar på vikten av att implementera hållbar utveckling som ämne redan i förskolan. Detta för att ge barn förståelse för vad begreppet innebär och hur hållbarhetsutmaningarna kan hanteras. Syftet med denna studie är att analysera hur hållbar...
Objective Based on the principle of the autonomy of the patient, shared decision-making (SDM) is the ideal approach in clinical encounters. In SDM, patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) share knowledge and power when faced with the task of making decisions. However, patients are often not involved in the decision-making process. In this stud...
Idag talas det ofta i media om lärares utsatta yrke. Nedskärningar och stram budget för kommunerna innebär stora förändringar i lärarnas arbetsmiljö i kombination med skolreformen 1990, nya läroplaner och New Public Management (NPM). Denna studie syftar därmed till att bidra med kunskap om hur läraruppdraget framträder i den rådande de...
Published in BioSocieties
This article explores recent HIV prevention campaigns for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), focusing on how they integrate pleasure and desire in their calls for self-discipline through a continual use of pharmaceuticals. This emerging type of health promotion, here represented by ads promoting the preventive use of pharmaceuticals, no longer simply...
Las ideas de Michel Foucault han tenido una gran influencia en las ciencias de la educación. Los estudios acerca de la sociedad disciplinaria se han convertido en una referencia ineludible para pensar las dinámicas de la institución escolar. Sin embargo, esa influencia a menudo se reduce a su enfoque crítico y deconstructivo, sin elaborar adecuadam...
The objective of the following article is to identify the elements that compose the function of the intellectual in Michel Foucault and to explain the form in which they act. The thesis that will be developed is that this function is understood from the political effects produced by discourses of truth. It will be argued that these three elements (...
Published in Higher education
While students' perspectives are crucial for international/transnational institutions' development, their preferences towards certain values should not be taken for granted, as the possibility of lived experience is confined by individuals' subjectivity, which derives from power and knowledge but does not depend on them (Deleuze; Foucault, 1988). D...
Published in Psychopathology
This paper describes the form that narcissism takes in contemporary society in the light of Homo œconomicus – a concept developed by philosopher Foucault to describe a key figure of late modernity: the entrepreneur of himself whose core values are utility (every action must be directed towards production) and optimization (what costs more than it p...
In the unpublished manuscript of a lecture course probably given by Foucault at the École normale supérieure of Paris in 1954–5 (‘On Anthropology’; the dating is still uncertain), Foucault undertakes an erudite and detailed reconstruction of the history of anthropological knowledge, from modernity (Descartes and Malebranche) to 20th-century Nietzsc...
Under the rubric of project governance, governmentality has been defined as a general mode of governing people in projects, whether these projects are organized in an authoritarian, liberal, or neo-liberal mode in their approach to authority relations. We argue that governmentality is a specifically neo-liberal form of social integration, one that ...
