Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Subject "Foucault"
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Governing the academic subject: Foucault, governmentality and the performing university
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-19)Drawing on research conducted at National University of Ireland, Galway, this paper explores how senior managers at an Irish university are seeking to measure and facilitate academic performance in the context of national ... -
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 ... -
Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-07)Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has in ... -
Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university
(Routledge, 2017-09-13)Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has ...