Almost three years ago the world was shocked by the rapid spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Countries were forced to take measures to prevent the spread of the virus and to protect their citizens. Leaders all around the world imposed lockdowns, curfews, and compulsory use of facemasks in the public sphere. Sweden, on the other hand did, none of these things. Instead, the politicians delegated responsibility to the National Pandemic Group (NPG), which consisted of representatives from the Public Health Agency (FHM), the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), the National Board of Health and Welfare, the Medical Products Agency, the Swedish Work Environment Authority, the Swedish municipalities, regions, and the county administrative boards (Länsstyrelserna). No compulsory restrictions were imposed on the individual level, instead the Swedish citizens were urged and not forced to follow them.   The aim of this study is to understand the norms and presumptions behind the Swedish strategy, by analyzing the pandemic-discourse of the NPG. This will be done using Carol Bacchi’s - Whats the problem represented to be – method. There will also be a discussion throughout the text that connects to the theory of informal citizenship and Foucault’s powerknowledge theory.  The results show that by basing the strategy on the individual responsibility of every citizen, the NPG also held the public responsible when the strategy did not hold and people lost their lives. Also, the NPG, and especially the FHM, used knowledge to govern, and to emphasize their views on the virus and what measures to impose and to not impose. Finally, the NPG mediated a form of informal citizenship by emphasizing every citizen’s duty and obligation to follow the FHM: s public advice and recommendations, and by differentiating those who did not follow them.

In 2023 a committee directive was published by the Swedish government regarding a review of certain issues in the field of suicide prevention. The study aims to analyze the understanding of suicide as a phenomenon to explore how suicide is constructed through discourse and discuss the ideological consequences for social work. This will hopefully deepen the understanding of the suicide and suicide prevention in a Swedish context. The study adopts a social constructivist approach, and the research design was qualitative with Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) paradigm. Research data in the study was two government documents regarding suicide and suicide prevention. The data was analyzed according to Fairclough’s three-dimensional model: through text, through discursive practice and through social practice in a sociocultural context using Foucault’s term power-knowledge. The study discusses the implications of the findings in a wider political and social meaning. The research finds that the competing discourses on suicide in Sweden exists within the structural perspective of understanding the phenomenon, with features of economic-, medical- and individual -discourse and that there is a shift in social politics moving away from the individual and medical/pathologic discourse on suicide. The implications for social work are concluded to be future suicide preventive interventions designed for social services, and furthermore a broader take on individuals with suicidal thoughts and tendencies.

This thesis analyzes the correlation between right-wing populist narratives on migration and voting patterns within the European Union. It is argued that recurrent thematic and rhetorical strategies embedded with right-wing populist features are prominent throughout politicians’ discourses. To allow a complex discussion, this thesis utilizes three poststructuralist concepts, including Michel Foucault’s discourse, power/knowledge approaches, and Jacques Derrida’s conception of deconstruction. To provide a comprehensive yet narrow insight into the topic, the theoretical framework is combined with the qualitative content analysis methodology, allowing a systemic analysis of Italy, Sweden, Hungary, and France between 2017-2024. Moreover, the data selection includes politicians’ narratives and secondary data from the latest national elections within the four member states. This provides a complex overview of how rhetorics frame migration as a national ‘threat’, include anti-elitist statements, and legitimize the willingness to reduce it. Therefore, the findings underline that narratives on migration are embedded with the power/knowledge nexus and the dichotomy of ‘us’ versus the ‘others’, producing a sentiment of fear that can be correlated to voting patterns. The recurrent use of discursive strategies and similar voting behavior demonstrates that the right-wing populist narrative phenomenon is a transnational practice.

Submitted by Jadson Francisco de Jesus SILVA (jadson@uefs.br) on 2018-02-01T22:02:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o Rebeca Barbosa Nascimento.pdf: 15807698 bytes, checksum: 664333bbb7472f35f56de775f39667bd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-01T22:02:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o Rebeca Barbosa Nascimento.pdf: 15807698 bytes, checksum: 664333bbb7472f35f56de775f39667bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-23 / With relevant contributions in several areas of knowledge, Michel Foucault provided, in his work, important reflections on the subjects and their processes of historical constitution within the relations established between power, truth and knowledge. Starting from Foucault's notion of subject, the present work constitutes an investigation of historical-discursive processes that discourses the formation of the student in the Young and Adult Education Program (EJA). To do so, initially, a brief historical-documental overview was given on the education movements for young people and adults in Brazil, reflecting on the constitution of the program in its relation with the public to which it is directed. Subsequently, the process of analysis was constructed based on The Archeology of Knowledge, and it is therefore a careful reading of the possible regularities found in the linguistic materiality of chapter 1 of the Portuguese Language segment of the program's textbook . The identification of possible regularities is followed by a characterization of the surfaces of emergence of possible speeches and, finally, the possibilities and interdictions that delimit the margins of constitution of the student subject of the EJA Program through the exteriorities are demarcated. / Com relevantes contribui??es em diversas ?reas do conhecimento, Michel Foucault trouxe, em suas obras, importantes reflex?es sobre os sujeitos e seus processos de constitui??o hist?rica dentro das rela??es estabelecidas entre poder, verdade e saber. Partindo da no??o foucaultiana de sujeito, o presente trabalho configura-se como uma investiga??o deprocessos hist?rico-discursivos que interpelam a forma??o do Sujeito Estudante do Programa de Educa??o de Jovens a Adultos. Para tanto, de forma inicial, foi constru?do um breve panorama hist?rico-documental sobre os movimentos de educa??o para jovens e adultos no Brasil, refletindo sobre a constitui??o do programa em sua rela??o com o p?blico para o qual ele ? direcionado. De forma subsequente, o processo de an?lise foi constru?do com base em A Arqueologia do Saber, tratando-se, portanto, de uma leitura atenta ?s poss?veis regularidades encontradas na materialidade lingu?stica do cap?tulo 1 do segmento de L?ngua Portuguesa do livro did?tico do programa. A identifica??o das poss?veis regularidades ? seguidadeuma caracteriza??o das superf?cies de emerg?ncia de poss?veis discursos e, posteriormente, s?o demarcadas as possibilidades e interdi??es que delimitam as margens de constitui??o do sujeito estudante da EJA atrav?s das exterioridades.

Using a feminist poststructuralist approach as a guide, I begin this thesis with the workinghypothesis that gender may be an adult-centred concept in feminist studies. This leads me toask: If the concept of gender in feminist studies is adult-centred, how is this centring formedand maintained? To answer this question, I begin by splitting my analysis into three analyticalsections: age, children, and gender. Although I include age, children, and gender into eachsectional analysis, my main priority in the first two sections is to look at how feminist scholarsdiscuss and use the terms age and child(ren). In the gender section, I use three canonical gendertheory texts as the basis of my analysis, where I see how gender is discussed and conceptualisedand how both children and age figure in these conceptualisations.One of the main concerns of feminist poststructuralist theory is tackling binaries. However,with the category of age having been often taken for granted in feminist studies, and thereforeunder-theorised, the adult/child binary in the category of age remains largely unchallenged.Instead, where age has been investigated in terms of tackling binaries, the young/old binary hasdominated but has remained centred around the adult; leaving children underacknowledgedand under-theorised in feminist studies age discourse. This under-theorisation of childrenmeans that “child” remains a master status with seemingly unshakeable connotations ofinnocence, vulnerability, and incompetence. Children are those who are not adults and not-yetsubjects. They are understood as being in constant need of care from the competent andcomplete adult. In this thesis, I show how these points, among others, contribute to both theformation and maintenance of the concept of gender as adult-centred.

Este estudo objetiva analisar materiais didático-digitais que acompanham livros de ensino de inglês para negócios, problematizando seus dizeres e as subjetividades produzidas para o aprendiz/futuro ou atual trabalhador do meio corporativo e sua relação com o discurso do neoliberalismo e o da globalização, os quais afetam de modo incisivo nosso momento contemporâneo. Pretendemos, sobretudo, desmistificar a representação do material pedagógico como um repositório de verdades científicas, livre de posicionamentos ideológicos, buscando promover uma atitude mais indagadora de professores e alunos frente aos materiais didáticos, em qualquer modalidade, impressos ou digitais. Interessa-nos investigar os imbricamentos discursivos, a noção de tecnologia implícita, a representação da língua inglesa e a variante do inglês sendo ensinada, dado que essas questões constituem os materiais analisados e incidem sobre as construções subjetivas. A hipótese que direciona este trabalho é a de que o discurso desses materiais digitais constrói subjetividades heterogêneas e contraditórias. Assim, o discurso que pretende inculcar um único modelo de sujeito apresenta fissuras que possibilitam momentos de resistência e de constituição de subjetividades não hegemônicas no mundo globalizado. Fundamentamos nossa análise nos conceitos da visão discursiva do sujeito (clivado e descentrado), formado no e pelo discurso (heterogêneo, polifônico, ideológico), perpassado por relações de poder (em que a resistência é constitutiva), aliando, portanto, nossa perspectiva discursiva às reflexões de Michel Foucault (1982, 1983, 1996a, 1997a, 1997b) acerca das relações de poder e saber, além da contribuição de Gilles Deleuze (1990a,b) sobre a sociedade de controle, na qual o poder é exercido de modo mais sutil e refinado, gerando uma modulação permanente do sujeito. Verificamos que o discurso pedagógico desses materiais digitais, formado a partir de dizeres hegemônicos dos discursos do neoliberalismo e da globalização, engendra um processo de subjetivação vigoroso, indicando ao sujeito como deve ser e agir no meio corporativo a fim de ser bem-sucedido. Por outro lado, esse mesmo discurso mostrou-se afetado por enunciados de práticas discursivas concorrentes, promovendo subjetividades contraditórias, mas não necessariamente em dissonância com os discursos hegemônicos. / This study aims at analyzing digital didactic materials which accompany books for teaching Business English, questioning their sayings and the subjectivities produced for the learner/future or present corporate worker and their relation to the discourses of neoliberalism and globalization, which deeply affect our contemporary moment. Most importantly, we intend to demystify the representation of the didactic material as a repository of scientific truths, free from ideological positionings, hoping to encourage teachers and students alike to be more questioning in relation to pedagogical materials, in any modality, printed or digital. We are interested in examining the articulation of discourses, the implicit notion of technology, the English language representation and the English variant that is being taught, since all these issues constitute the analyzed materials and affect the construction of subjectivities. The hypothesis which guides this work is that the discourse of these digital didactic materials constructs heterogeneous and contradictory subjectivities. Thus, the same discourse which intends to inculcate one model of subject presents ruptures which promote moments of resistance and the constitution of non-hegemonic subjectivities in the globalized world. We base our analysis on concepts of the discursive perspective, in which the subject (divided and decentered) is formed in and by discourse (heterogeneous, polyphonic, ideological), affected by power relations (in which resistance is implicit), adding to our discursive view Michel Foucaults (1982, 1983, 1996a, 1997a, 1997b) reflections about the relations between power and knowledge, besides Gilles Deleuzes (1990a,b) contribution on the society of control, in which power is exercised in a subtler and more refined way, generating a permanent modulation of the subject. We verified that the pedagogical discourse of these digital materials, formed by hegemonic sayings from the discourses of neoliberalism and globalization, engenders a vigorous process of subjectivation, indicating to the subject how he or she should be and act in the corporate environment in order to be successful. On the other hand, this same discourse revealed itself to be affected by enunciations from competing discursive practices, promoting contradictory subjectivities, but not necessarily out of tune with the hegemonic discourses.

Este estudo objetiva analisar materiais didático-digitais que acompanham livros de ensino de inglês para negócios, problematizando seus dizeres e as subjetividades produzidas para o aprendiz/futuro ou atual trabalhador do meio corporativo e sua relação com o discurso do neoliberalismo e o da globalização, os quais afetam de modo incisivo nosso momento contemporâneo. Pretendemos, sobretudo, desmistificar a representação do material pedagógico como um repositório de verdades científicas, livre de posicionamentos ideológicos, buscando promover uma atitude mais indagadora de professores e alunos frente aos materiais didáticos, em qualquer modalidade, impressos ou digitais. Interessa-nos investigar os imbricamentos discursivos, a noção de tecnologia implícita, a representação da língua inglesa e a variante do inglês sendo ensinada, dado que essas questões constituem os materiais analisados e incidem sobre as construções subjetivas. A hipótese que direciona este trabalho é a de que o discurso desses materiais digitais constrói subjetividades heterogêneas e contraditórias. Assim, o discurso que pretende inculcar um único modelo de sujeito apresenta fissuras que possibilitam momentos de resistência e de constituição de subjetividades não hegemônicas no mundo globalizado. Fundamentamos nossa análise nos conceitos da visão discursiva do sujeito (clivado e descentrado), formado no e pelo discurso (heterogêneo, polifônico, ideológico), perpassado por relações de poder (em que a resistência é constitutiva), aliando, portanto, nossa perspectiva discursiva às reflexões de Michel Foucault (1982, 1983, 1996a, 1997a, 1997b) acerca das relações de poder e saber, além da contribuição de Gilles Deleuze (1990a,b) sobre a sociedade de controle, na qual o poder é exercido de modo mais sutil e refinado, gerando uma modulação permanente do sujeito. Verificamos que o discurso pedagógico desses materiais digitais, formado a partir de dizeres hegemônicos dos discursos do neoliberalismo e da globalização, engendra um processo de subjetivação vigoroso, indicando ao sujeito como deve ser e agir no meio corporativo a fim de ser bem-sucedido. Por outro lado, esse mesmo discurso mostrou-se afetado por enunciados de práticas discursivas concorrentes, promovendo subjetividades contraditórias, mas não necessariamente em dissonância com os discursos hegemônicos. / This study aims at analyzing digital didactic materials which accompany books for teaching Business English, questioning their sayings and the subjectivities produced for the learner/future or present corporate worker and their relation to the discourses of neoliberalism and globalization, which deeply affect our contemporary moment. Most importantly, we intend to demystify the representation of the didactic material as a repository of scientific truths, free from ideological positionings, hoping to encourage teachers and students alike to be more questioning in relation to pedagogical materials, in any modality, printed or digital. We are interested in examining the articulation of discourses, the implicit notion of technology, the English language representation and the English variant that is being taught, since all these issues constitute the analyzed materials and affect the construction of subjectivities. The hypothesis which guides this work is that the discourse of these digital didactic materials constructs heterogeneous and contradictory subjectivities. Thus, the same discourse which intends to inculcate one model of subject presents ruptures which promote moments of resistance and the constitution of non-hegemonic subjectivities in the globalized world. We base our analysis on concepts of the discursive perspective, in which the subject (divided and decentered) is formed in and by discourse (heterogeneous, polyphonic, ideological), affected by power relations (in which resistance is implicit), adding to our discursive view Michel Foucaults (1982, 1983, 1996a, 1997a, 1997b) reflections about the relations between power and knowledge, besides Gilles Deleuzes (1990a,b) contribution on the society of control, in which power is exercised in a subtler and more refined way, generating a permanent modulation of the subject. We verified that the pedagogical discourse of these digital materials, formed by hegemonic sayings from the discourses of neoliberalism and globalization, engenders a vigorous process of subjectivation, indicating to the subject how he or she should be and act in the corporate environment in order to be successful. On the other hand, this same discourse revealed itself to be affected by enunciations from competing discursive practices, promoting contradictory subjectivities, but not necessarily out of tune with the hegemonic discourses.

This thesis argues that the role of the United Nations’ (UN) human rights regime is to constitute all peoples into a specific universal standard of civilization, which this thesis identifies as the UN meta-civilization. Meta-civilization is defined as the UN’s colonial and imperial impulse to legislate, implement and enforce human rights in ways which are meant to uniquely ‘civilize’. Analysis of the doctrinal and theoretical foundations of international law illustrates the historical and contemporary power dynamics that enable the UN to ‘universalize’ human rights. As a case in point, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAoC) political dialogue highlights the UN’s constitution of the meta-civilization. The case study proves the UN meta-civilization is hegemonic in its claim to universality. In the end, this analysis demonstrates that more consideration about the appropriate utility of human rights within the theories and practices of international relations and international law is required. / Graduate

While the word 'critique' appeared frequently in Australian legal education texts between 1987 and 2003, the meaning and the emphasis accorded critique varied widely. Michel Foucault's ideas about the close relationship between knowledge and power provide a theoretical framework within which this inconsistency of meaning and emphasis can be described, analysed and explained. Rather than monolithic, the discipline of legal education was by 2003 a dynamic nexus of distinct and competing discourses: doctrinalism, vocationalism, corporatism, liberalism, pedagogicalism and radicalism. Each of these six discourses was simultaneously a form of knowledge and an expression of disciplinary power within the law school. As a form of knowledge, each discourse accorded critique a different meaning and a different emphasis as a consequence of a range of historical, social and political contingencies. As an expression of power, each discourse was an attempt to achieve a set of objectives including the universalisation of a particular approach to the teaching of law and the enhancement of the status of a particular role within the law school. Critique, in a variety of forms, was a strategy employed by each discourse in order to achieve these objectives and to dominate and displace competing discourses.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:19:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Livia A da Silva.pdf: 1436230 bytes, checksum: 9df257534d36b7f61f3a8c7d7811e86a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-27 / In this research the objective is to analyze the Gestar II and subjectivity of its discursive practice verifying how the Portuguese Language teacher (6th to 9th grade) is disciplined to his/her docent practice. The corpus comprises Gestar II general guide. It has as support the Caderno de Teoria e Prática 1 and Caderno de Atividades de Apoio à Aprendizagem do Aluno de Língua Portuguesa. Thus to proceed our research, we used the French discourse analysis, focusing on Foucault studies about power relations, knowledge and truth in which the subject is inserted, as well as the school curriculum post-critical theory approached by Silva (2000). In order develop the analysis, we investigated how the Portuguese Language subject teacher is disciplinarized to the docent practice from the subjectivity discursive practices present on Gestar II. To proceed to this investigation it is used qualitative study and from documents analysis. It is observed that Gestar II is not restricted only for establishing a school curriculum. It incorporates a whole pedagogical process to establish its subjectivity process, once it prepares the subject teacher offering him/her the theory and the practice to be developed in the classroom. It is noticed that the stuff offered as support to guide the pedagogical practice of the subject teacher has strong imperative sentences that give an idea of order. This way, the subject is subjectivizing by rules that must be toughly followed, consequently, the teacher is disciplinarized. The Language Portuguese subject teacher pedagogical practice is subjectivizing from discipline strategies: time, space, hierarchical look, rule sanction and exam control. Gestar II uses knowledge to institute power, so the program can be considered like a power device once it has, in the interface power/knowledge, its main actuation weapon. / Nossa pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar as práticas discursivas de subjetivação do Gestar II, verificando como o professor de Língua Portuguesa (6º ao 9º ano) é disciplinarizado para a prática docente. Nosso corpus de estudos é constituído pelo Guia Geral do Gestar II, tem como apoio o Caderno de Teoria e Prática 1 e o Caderno de Atividades de Apoio à Aprendizagem do Aluno de Língua Portuguesa 1. Para tanto, para procedermos a nossa pesquisa, mobilizamos a Análise de Discurso de linha francesa, priorizando os estudos foucaultianos sobre as relações de poder, saber e verdade em que o sujeito é inserido, bem como a teoria pós-crítica de currículo abordada por Silva (2000). Desse modo, investigamos como o sujeito professor de Língua Portuguesa é disciplinarizado para a prática docente a partir das práticas discursivas de subjetivação presentes no Gestar II. Para procedermos a essa investigação utilizamos o estudo qualitativo a partir de uma análise documental. Observamos que o Gestar II não se restringe a apenas estabelecer um currículo, e sim incorpora todo um processo pedagógico para estabelecer seus processos de subjetivação, pois procura preparar o sujeito professor lhe oferecendo a teoria e a prática a ser desenvolvida em sala de aula. Percebemos que o material oferecido como suporte para nortear a prática pedagógica do sujeito professor está investido de fortes termos imperativos, que atribuem uma ideia de ordem. Dessa forma, esse sujeito é subjetivado por meio de regras a serem rigorosamente cumpridas e, consequentemente, o professor é disciplinarizado. A prática pedagógica do sujeito professor de Língua Portuguesa é subjetivada a partir das estratégias utilizadas pela disciplina: controle do tempo, do espaço, do olhar hierárquico, da sanção normalizadora e do exame. O Gestar II usa do saber para instaurar o poder, então, o programa pode ser considerado como um dispositivo de poder na medida em que ele tem, na interface poder/saber, sua principal arma de atuação.