Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Breslau, l941. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [viii]-x).

Thesis (D.Ed.)--University of Delaware, 2006. / Principal faculty advisor: David J. Blacker, School of Education. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis is an exploratory study of the relationship between Foucault's conception of disciplinary power and the philosophical ideas of ancient Greece as exemplified by Aristotle. Foucault claims that disciplinary power arose only in the 17th and 18th centuries. This thesis demonstrates that there are similarities and parallels between certain facets of Aristotle's ethical and political theory and Foucault's idea of disciplinary power--parallels and similarities sufficiently strong to weaken, if not contradict, Foucault's description of the historical origin of disciplinary power. / Master of Arts

Thesis advisor: James Bernauer / Michel Foucault's account of power does not foreclose the possibility of ethics; on the contrary, it provides a inescapable framework within which ethics becomes possible. A clear elaboration of both the general features common to all kinds of power relations (Chapter One), as well as the evolution of particular modes of modern power (discipline and biopower, Chapters Two and Three) demonstrates how power relations both frame and require other, ethical relations. Foucault's articulation of these ethical possibilties (Chapter Four) follows several trajectories--some rooted in contemporary politics, others in ancient ethical practices--that begin with "bodies and pleasures," and move through the communal practice of friendship, to caring for oneself and others as a critical attitude. At the core of these interconected ethical trajectories are the interwoven concepts of critique and freedom, which give Foucault the resources to articulate a provisional but sufficient justification of ethical norms and values, thus answering his most incisive and significant critics. Foucault is thus a critical theorist whose work calls us not to despair but to hope in an ongoing struggle for the good and the just. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Philosophy.

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This thesis explores the ways in which international donors have attempted to shape and control civil society organizations in the occupied Palestinian territories. It employs Foucault's concepts of power/knowledge and disciplinary power to investigate and theorize the power-relations that govern the interactions of donors with civil society organizations. It contends that international donors have construed the concept of civil society in such a way that made it possible to partition social space into two incommensurable civic and political spheres. International donors have demanded that organizations limit their activities to the civic sphere. Moreover, the thesis argues that per the requirements of discipline that the objects of its surveillance be rendered visible and subject to technologies of control, donors have used both statistical surveys and administrative techniques to classify, categorize, observe and monitor civil society organizations. These modes of surveillance are then used for locating civil society organizations in one of the civic and political spheres. / Comparative Politics

Strong parallels exist between the formation of subjectivity through the disciplinary/bio-power technologies of the 18th/19th centuries – which Michel Foucault identified in his books Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, and The History of Sexuality Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge – and the 20th/21st century formation of subjectivity effected through Apple. Inc and Google. Inc operating systems and products. These systems and products similarly serve to canalize and ‗discipline‘ the pursuit and exchange of information, in a way that is constitutive of a new cyber-variant of disciplinary/bio-power subjectivity.

Contrary to many major sporting leagues such as the NHL, NFL, NBA, and MLB, or the Olympic Games as a whole, the professional tennis industry has not been individually scrutinized in terms of governance, social control, and surveillance practices. This thesis presents an in-depth account of the major governing bodies of the professional tennis circuit with the aim of examining how they govern, control, constrain, and practice surveillance on tennis athletes and their bodies. Foucault’s major theoretical concepts of disciplinary power, governmentality, and bio-power are found relevant today and can be enhanced by Rose’s ethico-politics model and Haggerty and Ericson’s surveillant assemblage. However, it is also shown how Foucault, Rose, and Haggerty and Ericson’s different accounts of “modes of governing” perpetuate sociological predicaments of professional tennis players within late capitalism. These modes of surveillance are founded on a meritocracy based on the ATP and WTA rankings systems. A player’s ranking affects how he or she is governed, surveilled, controlled, and even punished. Despite ostensibly promoting tennis athletes’ health protection and wellbeing, the systems of surveillance, governance, and control rely on a biased and capitalistically-driven meritocracy that actually jeopardizes athletes’ health and contributes to social class divisions, socio-economic inequalities, gender discrimination, and media pressure. Through the use of top-players’ accounts, it is also shown how some players resist certain governing, controlling, and surveillance practices designed for their benefit, while others understand and accept the resultant constraints as part of their choice to be a professional tennis player. / Thesis (Master, Sociology) -- Queen's University, 2013-11-12 09:25:44.284

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:38:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IzabelCNF.pdf: 632045 bytes, checksum: 9eef0c87588f2dad81b836e90fa2b407 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Attempts to explain child labor, for the most part, have been reduced to the economic aspect, looking to establish a causal relationship between work and poverty. Without disregarding this aspect, we intend to approach this phenomenon considering other aspects that could be contributing towards its maintenance. We seek, above all, to articulate it with the concepts of disciplinary power and ideology. The present study, therefore, tries to consider these aspects with the intention of learning the reasons that the mothers and the teachers produce concerning child labor in the cultivation of vegetables. We elected these participants because we considered that child labor has been reinforced by the disciplinary institutions and proponents of ideology, the family and the school, here represented, respectively, by the mothers and the teachers. To affect this study, we created focused groups with the mothers whose children are students and work in the cultivation of vegetables in Gramorezinho (neighborhood situated in the northern part of Natal, RN) and with the teachers of the neighborhood school (Escola Lourdes Goudeiro). The discussion of the participants was handled according to the perspective of discursive practices, attempting to articulate them with the notions of ideology and disciplinary power. In general, we perceived how much ideology and discipline are immersed in the discursive practices of the participants. Whereas, even though in some moments the reference to work as being something that takes time from the child to study and play is apparent, the participants attribute great importance to child labor. Both for the teachers and for the mothers, work is something that can free the children from laziness, from becoming criminals and from using drugs. It too constitutes an important alternative to idleness and to the permanence of the child in the streets / As tentativas de explica??o do trabalho infantil, na maioria das vezes, resumem-se ao aspecto econ?mico, procurando estabelecer uma rela??o de causalidade entre trabalho e pobreza. N?o desconsiderando este aspecto, pretendemos abordar o fen?meno refletindo sobre outros aspectos que podem estar contribuindo para a sua manuten??o. Buscamos, sobretudo, articul?-lo com os conceitos de poder disciplinar e de ideologia. O presente estudo, portanto, tenta considerar estes aspectos se propondo a apreender os sentidos que as m?es e os professores produzem acerca do trabalho infantil no cultivo de hortali?as. Elegemos tais atores por considerarmos que a m?o-de-obra infantil vem sendo refor?ada pelas institui??es disciplinadoras e propagadoras da ideologia, a fam?lia e a escola, aqui representadas, respectivamente, pelas m?es e pelos professores. Para efetivar este estudo, realizamos grupos focais com as m?es, cujas crian?as estudam e trabalham no cultivo das hortas em Gramorezinho (bairro situado na zona norte de Natal-RN) e com os professores da escola do bairro (Escola Lourdes Goudeiro). As falas dos sujeitos foram tratadas segundo a perspectiva das pr?ticas discursivas, tentando articul?-las com a no??o de ideologia e poder disciplinar. De um modo geral, percebemos o quanto a ideologia e a disciplina est?o imersas nas pr?ticas discursivas dos sujeitos. Pois, embora apare?a, em alguns momentos, a refer?ncia ao trabalho como algo que tira o tempo de estudar e de brincar da crian?a, os sujeitos atribuem ao trabalho infantil uma grande import?ncia. Tanto para os professores como para as m?es, o trabalho ? algo que pode livrar as crian?as da vagabundagem, da criminalidade e do uso de drogas. Tamb?m constitui-se como uma alternativa importante para combater a ociosidade e a n?o perman?ncia das crian?as nas ruas

Esta dissertação trata, a partir de pressupostos teóricos foucautianos, das relações de poder e das tecnologias políticas em funcionamento dentro da Escola Municipal Professora Yone Nogueira, situada em Arraial do Cabo - RJ, particularmente do poder disciplinar e seus mecanismos de controle do tempo, do espaço e dos corpos. Tal escola tornou-se objeto de estudo não só por ser onde estudei e onde atuo como professor de História, mas também por ter uma arquitetura sui generis, herança do modelo panóptico construído para ser a realização da utopia de um controle perfeito. Dentro desta arquitetura de poder circular onde todos os corpos têm seus espaços reservados como forma de mantê-los sob controle permanente, muitos professores, estudantes e funcionários acabam se perdendo ou mesmo se sentindo mal. Além disso, os agentes disciplinadores estão permanentemente em ação e através da vigilância hierárquica, do exame e da sanção normalizadora os corpos vão sendo desenvolvidos ao máximo em seu potencial produtivo ao passo que vão sendo reduzidos em seu potencial de rebeldia. A escola fabrica sujeitos através de intensos e permanentes processos de sujeição. Michel de Certeau é de grande valia para a compreensão das muitas formas astuciosas que são inventadas cotidianamente pelos membros da comunidade escolar que não são meros consumidores passivos, mas transformam nas práticas cotidianas aquele espaço, inventando novas relações, intensificando a vida. Ao buscarem realizar experiências de liberdade que tornam a vida obra de arte e reforçarem os laços de amizade horizontalizada alguns usuários da escola acabam por desenvolverem uma estética da existência, fruto de um trabalho coletivo e não hierarquizado de uns com/nos outros. Mesmo dentro de instituições disciplinares planejadas para serem perfeitas em seu funcionamento é possível criar zonas autônomas temporárias, verdadeiras heterotopias onde experiências reais de liberdade podem ser vividas. Este trabalho relata toda essa realidade, e aponta o teatro libertário e experimental como alargador das brechas no poder disciplinar e potencializador de processos singulares de subjetivação. / This paper deals stating from Foucautian theoretical assumptions with the power relations and political tecnologies at work in the Escola Municipal Professora Yone Nogueira, located in Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, particularly on the disciplinar power and its mechanisms on time, space and body control. Such school has become study object, not only because it is where I have studied and work as History Teacher, but also because its sui generis achitecture, heritage of panoptical model, built to be a realization of the perfect control utopia. Within this achitecture of circular power, where all bodies have their reserved spaces as a form to keep them under permanent control , many teachers, students and administrative workers end by losing their work perspectives and objectiveness or even presenting feelings of discomfort at work. Besides, disciplinatory agents are permanently acting, and, by hierachical vigilance, the exam and normalizing sanction, bodies are developed at maximum productive potential, while rebellion potentials are reduced. The school manufactures subjects through intense and permanent subjection processes. Michel de Certeau is of great value to comprehend many subtle forms, which are daily invented by the school community members who are not mere passive consumers, but transform that space with their daily praxis, inventing new relations, intensificating life. On the attempt to realize experiences of freedom which turn life into art, and to reinforce horizontalized friendship bonds, some school usuaries turn out to develop an aesthetics of existance, result of a collective and not-hierarchical work upon each other. Even within disciplinary institutions planned to be perfect in working it is possible to create temporary autonomous zones, true heteropias, where real experiences of freedom can be lived. This work reports all that reality and points out the experimental and libertary theatre as an widening display of gaps in disciplinary power, and potentializer of singular subjectivation processes.