Browsing School of Political Science and Sociology by Subject "Playgrounds"
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Governing the future: citizenship as technology, empowerment as technique
(Sage Journals, 2011)This article examines how citizenship can be deployed as a technology of conduct, and how it combines with the technique of empowerment in instituting the behavioural norms that constitute a neo-liberal social order. It ... -
On power, habitus, and (in)civility: Foucault meets Elias meets Bauman in the playground
(Routledge, 2008)Drawing on the work of Foucault, Elias, and Bauman, this article examines how the playground has articulated specific configurations of power/knowledge. Originallydesigned to cultivate virtue and counteract vice, the ...