Published in Public choice
This paper draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Friedrich Hayek to understand threats to personal and enterprise freedom, arising from public health governance. Whereas public choice theory examines the incentives these institutions provide to agents, the analysis here understands those incentives as framed by discursive social constructions th...
This article establishes a dialogue around the concept of truth presented in Leonardo Polo’s thought and three contemporary thinkers. First, this article will perform an analysis of the french thinker Michel Foucault through his work "Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison". Second, it will describe the main points of confluence with the bo...
The aim of this study was to research the visual arts classroom and its impact on the teaching possibilities within. The visual arts subject has been subject to many studies based on curriculum and policy documents. This study chose to focus its research on the physical elements of the classroom, which meant the classrooms construction, materials a...
The main focus of this bachelor thesis concerns the discourses presented in texts on critical classification about marginalized groups. The text explores some of the difficulties that can stem from the idea that there is a possibility of objectivity within classification and cataloguing, as they are not a neutral occurrence but controlled by constr...
This paper investigates garments as containers of stories in Maggie O’Farrell’s The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2007). Michel Foucault’s ideas about penal practice are used to study how items of clothing are used to discipline the female body and sexuality. O’Farrell’s novel is also analyzed from the perspective of trauma theory as presented by C...
Response is an effective tool for exercising power in humour, since it can make a person seem funny. In the same way, the lack of response can make a person seem unfunny. In this article I argue that failed jokes make a female skiing pundit on TV seem humourless and that this is due to the other interlocutors refraining from giving adequate respons...
Bakgrund: Formell styrning återfinns inte minst inom verksamheter utan även i flera delar av samhället. Formell styrning råder inom verksamheter i syfte att influera människors uppträdande på arbetsplatsen och kan definieras som nedskriven information som rutinmässigt förmedlas till anställda. Informationen kan bland annat ge sig i uttryc...
Studiens syfte var att undersöka konstruktionen av gängkriminalitet i Polismyndighetens rapporter. Gängkriminaliteten har ökat snabbt den senaste tiden i Sverige och är ett växande problem samt en stor samhällsfråga som får mycket uppmärksamhet. Polismyndigheten släpper ofta rapporter som presenterar det aktuella läget i Sverige. Metode...
It is normal practice for works translated into English to abide by certain generic conventions with respect to their prefatory material. Traditionally, an ‘Introduction’ serves to locate the text in question within its relevant cultural context, whereas a ‘Translator’s Note’ occupies itself with the linguistic details and difficulties that arise f...
Caring for oneself is caring for what is most human in each one of us. The nuclear idea is always the same: that what is essentially human can intensify and grow. And that always the danger resides in degeneration. To intensify the human is to favor what is the “more human”. This is not "overcoming" or "going beyond" the human. This paper attempts ...
