Published in Nursing inquiry
Ethnic minority patients have been discussed and problematised in Western health literature. Drawing on an interpretation of central parts of the French philosopher Michel Foucault's authorship, we analysed a broad selection of materials to identify mechanisms through which the truth about ethnic minority patients is constructed. We identified a si...
The purpose of this theoretical essay is to make a dialogue between a quartet of authors –Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon –aiming to systematize the analytical framework that considers the formation of subjects as subjection. In this sense, there are two main interdependent movements in the course of writing: a) if ...
För studenter på universitet och högskolor med funktionsnedsättningar i form av lässvårigheter, såsom till exempel dyslexi och ADHD, kan tillgången till kurslitteratur i form av talböcker innebära att de får samma möjlighet som övriga studenter att delta fullt ut i studierna och slutföra sina studier. I Sverige har studenter med funkt...
This paper addresses one of the pedagogical challenges that followed the presence of increasingly multinational student groups, particularly the increased diversity of academic backgrounds among students. Theoretically, this challenge can be understood as an encounter between different teaching and learning regimes (TLRs). TLR, coined by Trowler an...
Ragging in Sri Lanka is a longstanding initiation ritual, similar to hazing and bullying. The severe harassment of new students by seniors has led to adverse consequences including depression, university dropouts and suicide. Although, a significant problem, research on ragging is scarce. This research aimed to explore how staff and work-affiliated...
This article acknowledges that Foucault's two great methodologies (archeology and genealogy) arose at two different moments in his methodological approach, and argues that the concept of dispositif developed in the philosopher from the 1970s onwards due to a discontinuity in his research. It is argued that this problem arose as a result of a series...
The purpose of this paper is to determine what in the nineteenth-century legal andpolitical doctrine was called police power. To achieve this objective, we resorted to astudy of the middle of the last century by an Argentine jurist named Alberto Dominguez,which gathered and systematically presented sources of European and NorthAmerican legal though...
How do gender and power intersect in whistleblowing situations? In this article, we deepen understandings of whistleblowing as a contemporary form of parrhesia, involving a process of self-constitution while speaking ‘truth to power’ from below. To explore the complex interactions of gender and power, we analyze in-depth, qualitative data from seni...
The aim of this article is to problematize the relationship between Althusser and Foucault based on the notions of ideolog-ical apparatus and device of power. First, it analyzes the links that Althusser devel-ops between the apparatus, the subject and the social struggle. Secondly, it visits Foucault’s work to identify three issues: the positive us...
Published in Health (London, England : 1997)
The article makes cancer survivorship the topic of an experiment in a form of writing we call dialogical response. First, in the style of autoethnography, each author presents an account of her or his long-term survivorship of cancer and the issues that involves. Less conventionally, we then respond each to the other's story. The article seeks to c...
