Journal articles: 'Foucauldian literature'

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Devitt, Ryan. "Toward a Foucauldian Literary Criticism." Poetics Today 42, no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 471–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03335372-9356809.

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Abstract The article argues for the renewed relevance of Foucault's early essays on literature, written throughout the 1960s, given a return to anthropological reflection in so much literary theory today (especially through affect theory and “new” phenomenologies—both of which rely on older categories supplied by psychoanalysis). On one hand, Foucault reminds us of all the “warped and twisted forms of reflection” that arise from anthropological thought, with its assumptions regarding the “unthought” and the hidden structures of sense and perception. This same Foucault, on the other hand, is deeply engaged with literature; his writings on a range of authors—from Homer and Cervantes, to Friedrich Hölderlin and the Marquis de Sade, to Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot—constitute nothing less than an oeuvre. And yet, despite proposals to move beyond Foucauldian critique and its orthodoxy in literary studies today, hardly anything has been thought or said about this body of work in which Foucault, as David Carroll points out, “has the most to say about literature and language.” This lacuna is all the more surprising, since Foucault's early essays offer a rich and fruitful understanding of the being of literature as more than a limpid reflection of the body. In his reading of Bataille and Blanchot in particular, Foucault offers a unique vision of literature that is neither suspicious nor negative but that, in connection with his well-known critique of finitude, culminates in a hopeful call for openness.

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Wolosky, Shira. "The Ethics of Foucauldian Poetics: Women's Selves." New Literary History 35, no. 3 (2004): 491–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2004.0047.

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Hopkins, Lisa. "Renaissance Queens and Foucauldian Carcerality." Renaissance and Reformation 32, no. 2 (January 21, 2009): 17–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v32i2.11547.

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This essay examines the figuring of images and experiences of imprisonment in the public and private writings and speeches of three women — Marguerite de Navarre, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I — and a man, Sir Philip Sidney, writing to an explicitly feminised agenda. It explores the ways in which the differing belief systems of Protestantism and Catholicism inflected the meanings constructed for carcerality, and the extent to which it could be perceived as an instrument of reform rather than merely detention.

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Bryant, Raymond L. "Non-Governmental Organizations and Governmentality: ‘Consuming’ Biodiversity and Indigenous People in the Philippines." Political Studies 50, no. 2 (June 2002): 268–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.00370.

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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are playing an increasingly important role in the process Foucault called ‘governmentality’. Drawing on the Foucauldian literature, this paper uses a case study of biodiversity conservation as well as indigenous people's ancestral domain in the Philippines to show how two quite different NGO-led conservation agendas nonetheless share a common underlying purpose: persuading indigenous people to internalize state control through self-regulation. Ironically, it is this sort of NGO contribution to the elaboration of government (in the Foucauldian sense) that may turn out be the most significant and lasting contribution that NGOs make to social change.

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Harman, Kerry. "Everyday learning in a public sector workplace: The embodiment of managerial discourses." Management Learning 43, no. 3 (January 24, 2012): 275–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350507611427232.

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This article uses a Foucauldian conceptualization of processes of subjectification to examine the everyday learning of a manager in and through their talk about work. A Foucauldian poststructuralist approach draws attention to the discursive mechanisms whereby people are turned into and turn themselves into subjects. This process is theorized by Foucault as the interplay of technologies of power with technologies of the self (Rose, 1996, 1999a). This perspective provides an account of subjectivity as integrally interrelated with power and knowledge, thereby challenging a prevailing view in much of the organizational learning and workplace learning literature of subjectivity as autonomous and essential. A Foucauldian perspective enables power to be introduced into accounts of everyday learning at work but in a way that avoids reproducing a top-down and monolithic view of power. Importantly, it provides the analytic space for re-presenting workplace learners as active in the ongoing negotiation of identity, rather than only acted on by top down forces.

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Miller, Paul Allen. "Toward a Post-Foucauldian History of Discursive Practices." Configurations 7, no. 2 (1999): 211–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/con.1999.0019.

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Zavala-Pelayo, Edgar. "A Contextual Genealogical Approach to Study the Religious." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 34, no. 3 (October 4, 2021): 284–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341526.

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Abstract The paper seeks to fill the gap in the literature that on the one hand adopts productively a Foucauldian genealogical approach to analyze religious phenomena yet on the other hand offers only minimum details, or no account, of methodological criteria and analytical procedures. Drawing retrospectively on the methodological experiences and insights of the author’s previous genealogical exercises, and the findings of some of the works above, the paper develops a contextual genealogical approach to study the religious in colonial and post-colonial settings with a Christian background. Based on a critical adoption of Nietzschean and Foucauldian tenets and six strategic analytical axes, the approach is presented as an open and flexible context-oriented methodological alternative for the necessarily constant rethinking of the religious in the present.

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Sheehey, Bonnie. "REPARATIVE CRITIQUE, CARE, AND THE NORMATIVITY OF FOUCAULDIAN GENEALOGY." Angelaki 25, no. 5 (September 2, 2020): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2020.1807142.

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Khan, Tauhid Hossain, and Ellen MacEachen. "Foucauldian Discourse Analysis: Moving Beyond a Social Constructionist Analytic." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 20 (January 1, 2021): 160940692110180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069211018009.

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Although social constructionism (SC) and Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) are well established constructionist analytical methods, this article propose that Foucauldian discourse analysis is more useful for qualitative data analysis as it examines social legitimacy. While the SC is able to illuminate how the “meaning” of our social action is constructed through our everyday interaction in socio-cultural and political contexts, questions emerge that are beyond the scope of the SC. These questions are concerned with understanding how the construction of “meaning” is connected to the power imbalance in our society, as well as how a particular version of reality comes to us as truth, having excluded other versions. Moreover, SC does not distinguish between successful and unsuccessful/marginalized claims. This article reflects on how using FDA addresses weaknesses in SC when used in qualitative data analysis, using specific examples from different literature.

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Mihret, Dessalegn Getie, and Bligh Grant. "The role of internal auditing in corporate governance: a Foucauldian analysis." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30, no. 3 (March 20, 2017): 699–719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-10-2012-1134.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to articulate the conceptual foundations of the role of internal auditing in corporate governance by drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a literature-based analysis of the role of internal auditing from a Foucauldian perspective. Findings It is argued that Foucault’s notion of governmentality provides conceptual tools for researching internal auditing as a disciplinary mechanism in the corporate governance setting of contemporary organizations. The paper develops an initial conceptual formulation of internal auditing as: ex post assurance about the execution of economic activities within management’s preconceived frameworks and ex ante advisory services to enhance the rationality of economic activities and accompanying controls. Research limitations/implications The paper is expected to initiate debate on the choice of theory and method in internal auditing research. The propositions and research agenda discussed can be used to address research questions of an interpretive nature that could enrich the current understanding of internal auditing. Originality/value This paper extends the Foucauldian analysis of accounting to incorporate internal auditing. It offers original propositions as a research agenda and discusses ontological and epistemic considerations associated with adopting the Foucauldian framework for internal auditing research.

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Coetzee, A. "Oorgangsliteratuurgeskiedenis: die illusie van ’n nasionale Suid-Afrikaanse letterkunde." Literator 18, no. 3 (April 30, 1997): 41–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v18i3.548.

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Literary history in transition: the illusion of a national South African literatureThe transformation of South Africa from a divided country to a unified democracy has created a discourse of ‘one-nationness’. Although this concept may primarily be a politicial ideal, it also encompasses the diverse fields of culture, language and literature. Literary theoreticians and historians may have to fin d a methodology for describing the various literatures in terms of a 'South African literature if such a unified concept can exist where literatures are produced in eleven languages. These literatures, however, also differ in ways of expression, because the cultures and political contexts from which they originated vary. In considering the deficiencies of a recent literary history, this article attempts to determine whether a methodology based on the Foucauldian concept of the discursive formation may be able to combine the various literatures as statements within the narrative of a nation.

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Sam, Cecile H. "Shaping Discourse Through Social Media: Using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to Explore the Narratives That Influence Educational Policy." American Behavioral Scientist 63, no. 3 (January 7, 2019): 333–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764218820565.

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This article offers Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) as an innovative qualitative methodology to apply to the intersection of social media and public policy research. The article has two sections. The first section briefly defines FDA and discourse and situates the methodology in the educational policy research literature. The second section applies FDA to a narrative about the Common Core State Standards as it occurred on Twitter, with an explanation of key terms throughout the process.

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Kaye-Essien, Charles Wharton. "‘Uberization’ as Neoliberal Governmentality: A Global South Perspective." Journal of Asian and African Studies 55, no. 5 (December 30, 2019): 716–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909619894616.

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Using the neo-Foucauldian literature on neoliberal governmentality as conceptual lens, this paper critically examines Uber’s influence on the governance of urban transport. It argues that ‘uberization’ represents a form of neoliberal governmentality in which Uber replaces the state as the arbiter and protector of citizenship. It distils the underlying logics of uberization through four discursive moments of subjectification and subjectivation in Ghana’s transport sector. Mainly conceptual but interlaced with empirical moments, the paper makes a vital contribution to the literature on how new forms of neoliberalization manifest through varied techno-material instruments in global south cities.

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Altwaiji, Mubarak. "Post 9/11 American Novel: Political Orientations in Representing Arabs." Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 22, no. 1 (May 2019): 63–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2019.22.1.63.

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September 11, 2001 has been the most aggressive day in the history of modern America. The physical and psychological damages caused by the attacks left a unique experience of the day in the mind of American writers. Therefore, if literary and political orientations changed after the 9/11, novel's subject matter and themes changed too, because novel is a reflection of its social and political context. This study examines the assumption implicit in the dominant conceptions that novel serves the state's politics in its pursue of interests through representations and misrepresentations of other nations. This study examines how American novel expresses solidarity with the state and its politics, ignoring its imperial and hegemonic attitude towards other nations. Novel has become the most effective genres to represent the feelings of the nation and the concern of the country. Analysis will refer to two novels, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Falling man, which directly deal with the moments of destroying the World Trade Centre and manifestly identify the terrorists, their culture, their religion and their intentions. Tendency to such themes allows American novel to follow the mainstream politics without grappling with the state's ideologies, interests and politics. Discussion will focus on the Foucauldian approach to literature and power and on the implications of using the Foucauldian approach to the study of imperial literature.

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Henning, John. "‘Home is Another Country’: A Foucauldian Reading of Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country." English Studies in Africa 65, no. 2 (July 3, 2022): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2022.2096750.

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Lafrance, Melisse. "Uncertain Erotic: A Foucauldian Reading of Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 6, no. 1 (2002): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10260210290021815.

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Zupančič, Alenka. "Biopolitics, Sexuality and the Unconscious." Paragraph 39, no. 1 (March 2016): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2016.0183.

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This article deals with the way in which Michel Foucault first introduced the notion of ‘biopolitics’ through the referential frame of sexuality and psychoanalysis. It focuses on the concept that is utterly and conspicuously missing from Foucault's account, in The History of Sexuality, of the psychoanalytic take on sexuality — namely, the unconscious. It argues that this omission has important and far-reaching consequences for the (Foucauldian) concept of biopolitics as such.

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Jerez-Farran, Carlos. "Towards a Foucauldian Exegesis of Act v of Garcia Lorca's "El publico"." Modern Language Review 95, no. 3 (July 2000): 728. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3735499.

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Mohammed, Marwan Kadhim, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Hardev Kaur, and Manimangai Mani. "Truth Problematization and Identity Formation: A Foucauldian Reading of Martin Amis's Money." 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies 22, no. 2 (July 27, 2016): 123–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/3l-2016-2202-09.

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Fox, Ragan. "Auto-archaeology of Homosexuality: A Foucauldian Reading of the Psychiatric–Industrial Complex." Text and Performance Quarterly 34, no. 3 (April 14, 2014): 230–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2014.903429.

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Leerssen, Joseph Th (Joseph Theodoor). "For a Post-Foucauldian Literary History: A Test Case from the Gaelic Tradition." Configurations 7, no. 2 (1999): 227–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/con.1999.0017.

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Fleissner, Jennifer L. "“As if!” in Thunder." American Literary History 34, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 142–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab086.

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Abstract The crises of 2020, this essay argues, demonstrated anew both the dangers and the indispensability of state power. Yet Americanist critics often display the same antistatism that characterized the nation's canonical literature as well as those who championed it in the mid-twentieth century. For an alternative, this essay turns to the work of Lora Romero, a critic who linked those canonical works to political criticism inspired by Michel Foucault. The libertarianism of both, she argued, made it impossible for critics to conceive that “resistance” and “entanglement in power relations” might go hand in hand. The Foucauldian critique of biopolitics is here shown to be inseparable from a skepticism toward an often feminized welfare state linking France’s Second Left to figures in the US like Christopher Lasch. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s argument against Foucauldian “critique” is then shown to offer a more recent, albeit equally overlooked, resource for taking the necessity of institutionality seriously. Without such correctives, American Studies Association calls for papers can inadvertently echo the “romantic” rhetoric of books like Huckleberry Finn, in which an absolutized freedom and care for all will simply coexist harmoniously, rather than representing two conflicting strands of the modern polis requiring constant negotiation. In our instinctive antistatism and the conception of freedom it entails, we may share more in common than we recognize with the "American ideology" that . . . has formed the object of our ongoing critique.

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Ferguson, Peter. "Discourses of Resilience in the Climate Security Debate." Global Environmental Politics 19, no. 2 (May 2019): 104–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00500.

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The language of “resilience” features prominently in contemporary climate security debates. While a basic definition of resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb recurrent disturbances so as to retain its essential structures, processes, and feedbacks, I argue that resilience is currently articulated in four distinct ways in climate security discourse. These are strategic resilience, neoliberal resilience, social resilience, and ecological resilience. Most analyses of resilience-based security discourses have hitherto been informed by Foucauldian notions of governing populations at a distance to ensure compliance with neoliberal norms. However, in the climate security field, neoliberal resilience discourses have achieved relatively little salience, while Foucauldian accounts are largely overdetermined, thus obscuring the multiple ways in which resilience is currently articulated. In this article, I identify these disparate resilience discourses through an analysis of recent US and UK government, international organization, nongovernmental organization, and academic climate security literature. I then analyze these discourses in terms of their basic discursive structure and degree of institutionalization to clarify how dominant climate security narratives construct understandings of security and insecurity in contemporary global environmental politics. While strategic articulations are currently most conspicuous, I argue that only social and ecological resilience support long-term human flourishing and ecosystem integrity.

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Cassuto, Leonard. "“We Gotta Get Out of this Place”: Literary Criticism in the Academic Workplace." American Literary History 31, no. 2 (2019): 287–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz008.

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Abstract Winfried Fluck’s critique of the work of Rita Felski and Caroline Levine argues that the new formalism of these critics does not escape the Foucauldian regime that they seek to surpass. Following from Fluck’s observation, I argue that we should view the practice of literary criticism within the straitened academic workplace within which it is produced—and that this is a context we ignore at our own peril. The longstanding employment problems in academia contribute to the patterns that Felski and Levine identify—and in fact may cause them.

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Taylor, Chloë. "Foucault and Familial Power." Hypatia 27, no. 1 (2012): 201–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01171.x.

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This paper provides an overview of Michel Foucault's continually changing observations on familial power, as well as the feminist‐Foucauldian literature on the family. It suggests that these accounts offer fragments of a genealogy of the family that undermine any all‐encompassing or transhistorical account of the institution. Approaching the family genealogically, rather than seeking a single model of power that can explain it, shows that far from this institution being a quasi‐natural formation or a bedrock of unassailable values, it is in fact a continually contested fiction that masks its own histories of becoming.

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Mulyaningsih, Hetti, Bagong Suyanto, and Rahma Sugihartati. "Discourse and breastfeeding practice in urban communities in Indonesia: A Foucauldian perspective." Jurnal Studi Komunikasi (Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies) 4, no. 3 (November 5, 2020): 597. http://dx.doi.org/10.25139/jsk.v4i3.2452.

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Breastfeeding coverage in Indonesia is under government target. Several works of literature illustrate that mothers in Indonesia face three classic problems. First, inadequate regulation to protect breastfeeding practices, second, the massive promotion of infant formula and breast-milk substitutes, and third, discrepancies in health services. This article aimed to explore the experiences of breastfeeding mothers and to relate it to broader discourse. The study was conducted in two metropolitan cities in Indonesia, Jakarta, and Surabaya. Both locations were chosen because the two cities share similar characteristics, namely urban communities with dense, heterogeneous populations and rapid changes. The study is a critical discourse analysis using the Foucauldian perspective to help examine the discourse and the social practices of breastfeeding. Data were collected with semi-structured interviews on 36 research subjects. The results confirmed that all subjects recognised the benefits of breastfeeding discourse. However, the practice of infant feeding was not always related to health recommendations. The study also found three issues concerning breastfeeding practice, namely: discourse on breastmilk and biopower, failed mothers, and mothers’ negotiation. The discourse on breastfeeding is recognised as a biopower discourse which is an extension of affected mothers’ identities. Mothers who fail to breastfeed feel guilt, frustration and shame. They tried to negotiate this condition by asking health workers for help and arguing that the identity of the mother is not only influenced by the practice of breastfeeding. Therefore, a constructive biopower discourse is needed to implement breastfeeding practices and discourses to normalise breastfeeding practices.

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Garman, Anthea. "Confession and public life in post‐apartheid South Africa: A Foucauldian reading of Antjie Krog'scountry of my skull." Journal of Literary Studies 22, no. 3-4 (December 2006): 322–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564710608530406.

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Jagoda, Patrick. "Critique and Critical Making." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 132, no. 2 (March 2017): 356–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2017.132.2.356.

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In The Limits of Critique, Rita Felski Uses Paul Ricouer's phrase “hermeneutics of suspicion” to frame and reappraise “a diverse range of practices that are often grouped under the rubric of critique: symptomatic reading, ideology critique, Foucauldian historicism, various techniques of scanning texts for signs of transgression or resistance” (2–3). Throughout the book, she argues that literary criticism has overvalued this approach, in part because of its many affordances and pleasures. Without rejecting critique altogether, Felski concludes that “it is one way of reading and thinking among others: finite, limited, and fallible” (192).

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Abdelwahab, Mona A. "De-commemoration of an urban street in Egypt: the case of Gameat-Aldowel-Alarabyia street." Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 13, no. 2 (July 15, 2019): 459–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arch-02-2019-0042.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the “event” of the construction of Naguib Mahfouz Square. Drawing on the memory of Gamaet-Aldowel-AlArabyia Street, it attempts to uncover the socio-cultural structures inherited in the Egyptian urban street.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts Foucauldian discourse on institutions of “knowledge and authority” to approach the power relations between the actors involved. This discourse was constructed through in-depth, unstructured interviews with architects and involved government personnel as well as other archival resources that included national newspapers and magazines.FindingsThis discourse reflected an institutional controversy between these actors over the perception and design of the Egyptian street, highlighting the alienation of the designer, and the user/lay-people, from the urban institution. Naguib Mahfouz Square presented a considerable deviation from the established norms of street design in Egypt at that time through its commemoration of a contemporary figure in literature, the architect’s involvement in the design process and the unfencing of urban space. This event thus questions the perception of the urban street beyond our socio-cultural inheritance, and towards street design as a performative urban act that embraces the everyday activities of lay-people in the street.Originality/valueThe paper utilises Foucauldian discourse on power to approach a case study of an urban event and space in Egypt, which has not previously been investigated thoroughly. It thus holds potential towards the resolution of inherited conflict between the urban street and the urban institution.

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Redman, Peter. "The narrative formation of identity revisited." Narrative Inquiry 15, no. 1 (September 28, 2005): 25–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.15.1.02red.

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This article revisits one of the more contentious debates in current studies of narrative: the claim that identities are, in some sense,fabricatedby and in narratives, and the counter-claim that individuals have inherent capacities, such as a dynamic unconscious, that precede or are in excess of any identity-building work that narrative might do. The article approaches this debate via competing theories drawn from sociology and cultural studies, contrasting post-structuralist and Foucauldian theories with a Kleinian cultural analysis of narrative. The theoretical discussion is illustrated via a story told by a young man who apparently had strong investments in heterosexual romance.

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Sementelli, Arthur Jay. "OD, change management, and the a priori: introducing parrhesia." Journal of Organizational Change Management 29, no. 7 (November 14, 2016): 1083–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-12-2015-0234.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a Foucauldian concept into the theory and practice of OD and change management. The piece challenges Habermasian a priori assumptions about organizational diagnosis and intervention. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper. Findings Literature points to the benefit of considering the possibility of parrhesiastic behavior in change management and organization development as part of a broader set of diagnostic tools. Research limitations/implications Future research should engage in practice driven test cases, interview practicing change managers, and refine the concept for use as a diagnostic tool. Practical implications Including discussions of parrhesia in change management and OD study and practices can better prepare change professionals for the realities of contemporary organizational practices. Originality/value To date, the links developed in this manuscript have not been made in the management literature, though it builds upon emerging literature in critical management studies and human resource management. It has the potential to influence both theory and practices of both OD and change management.

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Larner, Wendy. "Hitching a Ride on the Tiger's Back: Globalisation and Spatial Imaginaries in New Zealand." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 16, no. 5 (October 1998): 599–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d160599.

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In this paper I develop a genealogy of globalisation in New Zealand informed by the neo-Foucauldian literature on governmentality. My claim is that globalisation involves a shift-in the object of economic governance away from the national economy and towards the circuits of global capital. This shift is associated with a change in spatial imaginaries. Through an analysis of three key arenas—social policy, foreign direct investment, and immigration—I show that policies and programmes, designed to fulfil these new political ambitions, aim to articulate individuals, sectors, and regions into the economic flows and networks of the Pacific Rim. In this regard, globalisation can be usefully understood as a political strategy that promotes a new understanding of the means and ends of economic governance.

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Courville, Mathieu E. "Genealogies of postcolonialism: A slight return from Said and Foucault back to Fanon and Sartre." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 36, no. 2 (June 2007): 215–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842980703600202.

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Overemphasizing Michel Foucault's influence upon Edward W. Said's work has diverted much attention away from a clearer understanding of the ways in which Said's work was enabled by that of Frantz Fanon. It has been commonplace to assume that Said's oeuvre must be read through a Foucauldian lens, and yet Said was at times very critical of certain aspects of Foucault's work, often gesturing towards Frantz Fanon as a more apt intellectual model. This article's first section ad-dresses some of the secondary literature that has begun elaborating this "rapprochement" between Said and Fanon. The article's second segment examines on what grounds Said distanced himself from Foucault. The third part begins providing a more sustained comparison between Fanon and Said.

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Hanold, Maylon T. "Beyond the Marathon: (De)Construction of Female Ultrarunning Bodies." Sociology of Sport Journal 27, no. 2 (June 2010): 160–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.27.2.160.

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This article examines the ways in which high-performance female ultrarunning bodies are created by and understood through the discourses of the normative running body, the ideal female body and pain. Using a Foucauldian framework, this paper shows how the ultrarunning body becomes a desired body beyond the marathon and how these same desires produce multiple and complex subjectivities for female ultrarunners. In-depth interviews were conducted with 8 high performance female ultrarunners. Findings suggest that ultrarunning is a sporting space which gives rise to more diverse subjectivities than previously found in distance running literature. Simultaneously, this discourse produces disciplined bodies through the mode of desire and “unquestioned” social norms, paralleling the constructs of extreme sports and (re)producing middle-classness.

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Fage-Butler, Antoinette Mary. "The Discursive Construction of Risk and Trust in Patient Information Leaﬂets." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 24, no. 46 (October 24, 2017): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v24i46.97368.

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There is wide recognition that the communication of risk in Patient Information Leaﬂets (PILs) – the instructions that accompany medications in Europe – problematises the reception of these texts. There is at the same time growing understanding of the mediating role of trust in risk communication. This paper aims to analyse how risk is discursively constructed in PILs, and to identify and analyse discourses that are associated with trust-generation. The corpus (nine PILs chosen from the British online PIL bank, www.medicines.org.uk) is analysed using Foucauldian (1972) discourse analysis: speciﬁcally, this involves identifying the functions of the statements that constitute the discourses. A discourse analysis of the corpus of PILs reveals that the discourse of risk revolves around statements of the potential harm that may be caused by taking the medication, whilst trust is constructed through three discourses: the discourses that relate to competence and care, in accordance with the trust theories of Poortinga/Pidgeon (2003) and Earle (2010), and a third discourse, corporate accountability, which functions to construct an ethical (trustworthy) identity for the company. This paper contributes to PIL literature in the following ways: it introduces a methodology that has not been used before in relation to these texts, namely, Foucauldian discourse analysis; it helps to identify the presence of trust-generating discourses in PILs; and analysing the discourses of risk and trust at statement-level facilitates a better understanding of how these discourses function in texts that are generally not well-received by the patients for whom they are intended.

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Zavala Pelayo, Edgar. "Welfare governmentalities: pastoralism and parties’ youth wings in Mexico." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 37, no. 13/14 (December 4, 2017): 808–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-12-2016-0136.

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Purpose From a micro-macro perspective, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the welfare-related criteria reported by the heads of political parties’ youth wings in Mexico, the implicit and explicit religious beliefs that inform some of those criteria and the (Foucauldian) pastoral genealogy of both the criteria and beliefs. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with a group of 32 heads of three political parties’ youth wings in Mexico. The interpretation of the data builds on a previous genealogical analysis of Foucauldian pastoralism in colonial Mexico. Findings The respondents’ criteria on a state that should aim at procuring “material-spiritual” and “material-transcendental” types of well-being and politics as “help,” are partly informed by religious values. Such criteria and religious values have been partly constructed out of a pastoralism which was deployed during the Spanish colonial regime and included “temporal” and “spiritual” teleologies of government and the practice of charity as (self-)governmental technique. Originality/value The literature on welfare/social policies of Latin American countries like Mexico tends not to problematize issues of secularity other than the religions’ undesirable intrusions in the political field. Governmentality studies also tend to bypass Foucault’s discussion of pastoralism. An empirical study of the pastoral genealogy of contemporary political rationalities in a constitutionally secular country such as Mexico can prompt further research on the gaps above and comparative analyses of pastoral and welfare governmentalities across Latin American and other world regions.

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John, P. "Literatuurgeskiedskrywing en diskoers: die ‘begin’ van die Afrikaanse letterkunde." Literator 15, no. 1 (May 2, 1994): 97–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v15i1.653.

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In this article Afrikaans literary historiography is analysed by means of the discourse-analytical tradition associated with the name of Michel Foucault. Approaching Afrikaans literary historiography as a discursive formation makes it possible to argue that the nationalist-teleological character of the historiography has led to the marginalisation of a number of Afrikaans literary traditions. This argument then identifies the reclamation of these marginalised literary traditions as one of the most pressing tasks of Afrikaans literary historiography, Foucauldian discourse theory is finally used with reference to the alternative conception of history which accompanies it to suggest a solution to the problem of these marginalised Afrikaans literary traditions.

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Rees, Ellen. "Between the Map and the Terrain." European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 52, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 103–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2022-2066.

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Abstract This article explores heteropian, utopian and dystopian places in Erlend O. Nødtvedt’s 2017 novel, Vestlandet, in order to better understand how the author uses references to regional historical and contemporary figures and events to construct what Edward Said labeled a cultural archive in a larger anti-imperialist project. Language, landscape, and identity form the core of Nødtvedt’s project. This raucously humorous novel activates the Foucauldian heteropias of indefinitely accumulating time and of the festival, as well as Marc Augé’s notion of the non-place in order to comment upon the perceived cultural and political divide between western and eastern Norway.

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Monaghan, Jeffrey. "Settler Governmentality and Racializing Surveillance in Canada's North-West." Canadian Journal of Sociology 38, no. 4 (December 31, 2013): 487–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cjs21195.

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Abstract. Examining archival materials from the mid-1880s, this article details practices of racializing surveillance carried out in the North-West. I focus on the reports from an undercover agent from the Department of Indian Affairs named Peter Ballendine. Contributing to literature on Foucauldian interpretations of race and racialization, Ballendine’s correspondence reveals a campaign of covert surveillance and infiltration that imbued indigenous leaders with characteristics of dangerousness, abnormality, and deviance, translating indigenous demands for rights and dignity into threats to security of the budding Canadian settler state. Stressing that settler colonialism follows a structured logic of elimina- tion, I use the concept of settler governmentality to stress that the rationalities of colonial governance in the North-West approached indigeneity — especially expressions of counterconduct — as threats to the health, prosperity, and legit- imacy of settler society.

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He, Longtao, and Kate van Heugten. "An Implementable Conversation Between Foucault and Chinese Virtue Ethics in the Context of Youth Social Work." British Journal of Social Work 51, no. 4 (February 20, 2021): 1221–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab034.

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Abstract Recently, virtue ethics has been increasingly considered as one of the most appropriate alternative ethical frameworks for youth social work internationally and in China. Extant literature has the tendency to emphasise cultural difference and neglect the universality of (virtue) ethics; instead, this article aims to inspire a balanced theoretical conversation on similarities between western (Foucauldian) and Chinese virtue ethics (mainly classical Confucianism and Daoism) supported by examples from case studies. Three areas are addressed: (i) similarities in the interior (personal) dimension and the exterior (relational) dimension of the self; (ii) the situational and universal features of virtue ethics, and the need for a reflective approach to balance both; and (iii) ethical cultivation of the reflective approach. These key themes add to a body of knowledge for the development of a virtue ethics framework for Chinese youth social work.

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Dudley, Michael. "Liberating Knowledge at the Margins." Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship 5 (May 9, 2019): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v5.29905.

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This paper proposes an LIS research paradigm by which the transactional relationships between knowledge organization systems (KOS) and external scholarly discourses may be identified and examined. It considers subject headings as discursive acts (or Foucauldian “statements”) unto themselves—in terms of their materiality, rarity, exteriority, and accumulation—arising from such discourses, and which, through their usage in library catalogues and databases, produce their own discursive and non-discursive effects. It is argued that, since these statements lead through their existence and discovery (or absence and neglect) to the creation of further texts, then potentially oppressive discursive formations may result where marginalized knowledges are concerned. The paper aims to better understand these processes in scholarly discourses—and the role of libraries therein—by examining recent examples in the LIS literature regarding matters of race and gender, and which are suggestive of this emergent paradigm.

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Crous, M. "Aspekte van die outeursfunksie in Antjie Krog se Lady Anne (1989)." Literator 23, no. 3 (August 6, 2002): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v23i3.340.

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Aspects of the author function in Antjie Krog’s Lady Anne (1989) The purpose of this essay is to investigate the Foucauldian notion of the so-called “author function” in Antjie Krog’s seventh volume of poetry, viz. Lady Anne (1989). It is an attempt to show how the notion of the death of the author (Barthes) links up with this theorisation of Foucault. Furthermore, it is also an attempt to indicate the characteristic features of the so-called “author function” in the late eighties in Afrikaans poetry, especially with regard to the conflict between aestheticism and political ideology in poetic expression. Focus is also placed on the role of the author’s name within the discursive framework of what is regarded as “Afrikaans literature”, as well as the author’s interaction with other authors within that discursive framework, in particular, Breyten Breytenbach.

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Brunet, Lucas, Isabelle Arpin, and Taru Peltola. "Governing research through affects: The case of ecosystem services science." Science and Public Policy 46, no. 6 (August 4, 2019): 866–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scz035.

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AbstractDespite the abundant literature on transformation of research and the affective dimension of research practice, affective governing of research has not been documented to the same extent. To address this gap, we examine how scientific research can be affectively governed by research institutions. We focus on the case of ecosystem services science, an interdisciplinary field of research expected to lead to decisions capable of halting environmental degradation. Drawing on theoretical discussions bridging the concept of affect and the Foucauldian concept of government, we argue that affects can be mobilised as a technology of government in governing scientific practice. We identify three affective techniques used to govern ecosystem service research and discuss the limits of governing research through affects. Our analysis deepens the understanding of how academic work is transformed in the context of redefined relations between science and society.

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Hume, Kathryn. "Ishmael Reed and the Problematics of Control." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 108, no. 3 (May 1993): 506–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/462618.

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Ishmael Reed's disparate novels analyze control: its origins; its relation to patterns of racial domination in American history; and its role in sex, business, religion, and government. Foucauldian control offers a way to analyze human interactions, as do Freudian theories of sexuality and Marxist economics. American control artists, including Reed, Acker, Burroughs, Mailer, and Pynchon, offer a strangely similar set of visionary concerns: problems with sexual identity, images of homosexuality, grotesque presentations of heads of state, efflorescent anality, magic, and radical revisions of foundational myths. More successfully than these other satirists, Reed manages to suggest an answer to the problematics of control — an alternative social structure, whose center is the cultivation of certain pleasures rather than macho courage, delayed gratification, self-control, or unattached drifting. (KH)

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Kaselionyte, Justina, and Andrew Gumley. "Psychosis or spiritual emergency? A Foucauldian discourse analysis of case reports of extreme mental states in the context of meditation." Transcultural Psychiatry 56, no. 5 (July 16, 2019): 1094–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461519861842.

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Meditation is becoming increasingly popular in the West and research on its effects is growing. While studies point to various benefits of meditation on mental and physical health, reports of extreme mental states in the context of meditation have also been published. This study employed Foucauldian discourse analysis to examine how the experience of extreme mental states has been constructed in case reports and what kind of practices were employed to address them. The study analyses how extreme mental states associated with meditation are framed within the scientific literature and how such differential framings may affect the meaning making and help-seeking of persons experiencing these states. A systematic scientific literature search identified 22 case studies of extreme mental states experienced by practitioners of various types of meditation. The analysis suggests a discursive divide between two dominant framings: a biomedical discourse which constructs such experiences as psychiatric symptoms and an alternative discursive, which understands them as spiritual emergencies. Both approaches offered distinct therapeutic avenues. This divide maps onto the disciplinary divides within the mental health field more generally, which may obscure a better understanding of these experiences. However, the two discourses are not necessarily mutually exclusive and authors of three articles chose to blend them for their case reports. A supportive environment could help those experiencing extreme state integrate them into their lives. Our findings encourage collaboration between clinicians, therapists and spiritual teachers in order to make a range of approaches available.

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Muhsin, Ilyya, Sukron Ma’mun, and Wardah Nuroniyah. "Sexual Violence in an Islamic Higher Education Institution of Indonesian: A Maqasid Al-Shariah and Foucauldian Perspective." Samarah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga dan Hukum Islam 5, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.22373/sjhk.v5i1.9144.

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Sexual violence was prevalent in many settings, including in religious educational institutions. This article analyzed cases of sexual violence at an Islamic higher education institution in West Java, Indonesia, using the maqasid al-shariah and Foucault's theory of sexuality as the theoretical frameworks. This mixed-method research used Google form's surveys, in-depth interviews, and observations as the data collection methods. The data were analyzed using a flow model, which comprised selection, display, analysis or discussion, and conclusion. This study showed that verbal and non-verbal sexual violence was rampant. It occurred between student and student, lecturer and staff, staff and staff, and lecturer and student. Four models of sexual violence were found based on the typology designed by Dzeich and Weiner, who categorized thirteen forms of sexual violence. The maqasid al-shariah analysis outlined that sexual violence was against the fundamental values and objectives of sharia and human rights. Additionally, Foucault's theory identified patriarchal and cultural hegemony aspects in sexual violence. This study's intriguing part was the findings that combined in-depth interviews, observations, and surveys, intended to understand the intensity of existing cases. On the other hand, the power of analysis was centered on normative fiqh and sociological aspects. According to the literature reviews, these two approaches had not been administered by previous researchers.

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Ross, Kelly. "Watching from Below: Racialized Surveillance and Vulnerable Sousveillance." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 135, no. 2 (March 2020): 299–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.2.299.

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By relying on Foucauldian panopticism as a universally explanatory theory, surveillance studies has collapsed two separate issues: the power relations between watcher and watched and the visibility or nonvisibility of the watcher. The presumption that the watcher's visibility or nonvisibility is irrelevant is especially dangerous for observers of color, who are already more vulnerable because of racial hypervisibility. This essay examines the simultaneous operation of surveillance (watching from above) and sousveillance (watching from below), both predicated on racial hypervisibility. To demonstrate the continuity of racial hypervisibility across a broad historical period, I compare the risks taken by sousveillants of color making smart‐phone recordings of police brutality in the twenty‐first century with the dangers faced by visible African American sousveillants in nineteenth‐century slave narratives by Charles Ball, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs. (KR)

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Champagne, John, Linda Williams, and Attorney General. "Review Essay. Interrupted Pleasure: A Foucauldian Reading of Hard Core / A Hard Core (Mis)Reading of Foucault." boundary 2 18, no. 2 (1991): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/303285.

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Tegenbos, Jolien, and Karen Büscher. "Moving Onward?" Transfers 7, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 41–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2017.070204.

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This article examines the migration-asylum nexus in the microcosm of Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya by focusing on refugees and asylum seekers who move onward from a first refuge, in Central-East Africa. By drawing on qualitative ethnographic field research in Kakuma, the article outlines how such “secondary movements” cause many anxieties, as the distinction between refugees and migrants is blurred by motivations that are not exclusively protection related. Based on a Foucauldian analysis of power and discourse, we argue that this creates a contested social and semantic space wherein all actors struggle to uphold the rigid distinction. Additionally, by combining the strengths of migration studies’ consideration for policy categories and mobility studies’ holistic perspective toward migration, the article aims to further deepen academic interaction between two literature traditions in order to enhance our understanding of how mobility is “shaped” and “lived” by people in wartime situations.

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Babagolzadeh, Reza, and Mahdi Shafieyan. "George Herbert’s The Temple: A Religious Rhyme or Political Poetry?" International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 6, no. 5 (July 6, 2017): 144. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.5p.144.

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George Herbert’s retreat from a political path and a turn towards a religious route has created a perception that the poet and priest had separated himself from politics. His magnum opus, The Temple, corroborates such a point of view with it verses coated with poetic praises and surrounded by biblical allusions, morals and confessions. Within Foucauldian perspective, this study peruses a different path of repainting the picture of the pious priest into a political poet, highlighting how his religious intentions were not separated from political influence. This paper highlights the inseparable bond between politics and religion in the Jacobean Era by analysing how the regimes of truth play its part in shaping the poet’s discourse.

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