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Roume, Stéphane. "La notion de progrès à travers une distinction entre éthique et morale." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0389.
Full textEvery economics or science has to reach some progress in its field. But, if we can agree on this point, we do not necessarily share the same definition of progress. To clarify this divergence of understanding, we have chosen to distinguish between ethics and morals: if a moral order permits to order elements in a determined frame for a specific goal, an ethical posture means to adopt and to adapt an authoritative principle for the discovery of an unknown environment. We advance that the economic field and the idea of progress can only be associated with a moral order and not with an ethical posture. To illustrate that, we conduct a reflection about identity, which is an empty and ideological notion but which allows us, along the distinction between ethics and morals, to focus especially on notions like State, person or power. These reflections can enlighten us about some foundations of economics and utilitarianism which is a philosophy deeply related to language and then with the notion of identity once again; utilitarianism and economics are in a certain way playing a defining role, allowing us to reach a well-being which we can identify and to which we can progress. Thereby, we are advancing that the progress can only be conceived from a moral order and that we should search a kind of equilibrium to let the ethical dimension be cultivated, as well as to encourage catallaxy outre economics
Tang, Ching Hay. "Rereading Michel Foucault's genealogy of power through Johnnie To's film." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/818.
Full textHendricks, Christina. "Prophets in exile : a diagnosis of Michel Foucault's political intellectual /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992813.
Full textBeer, Daniel John. "Form and power: a critical analysis of Michel Foucault's 'La Volonté de savoir'." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.731951.
Full textBradford, Simon. "Power and competence in professional education : a study of youth workers." Thesis, Brunel University, 1998. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5128.
Full textKoltermann, Tamara. "An application of Foucault's analytic of power/knowledge to the Okanagan Water Basin Study Public Involvement Program." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0009/MQ32365.pdf.
Full textSanders, Christopher Sun. "The North Korean Security State: Examining the North Korean Population through Michel Foucault's Theories of Discipline and Punishment." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46320.
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Brain, Lesley C. "Homans' notion of investments as an explanation of gender based power inequities." Thesis, Brain, Lesley C. (1997) Homans' notion of investments as an explanation of gender based power inequities. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1997. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/42393/.
Full textCalcerrada, Gwenaëlle. "Le paradoxe du soft power : de Joseph Nye aux néoconservateurs : itinéraire d'une notion caméléon." Paris, EHESS, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012EHES0154.
Full textSoft power appears in the academic and political fields at the end of the 1980s, as a response to the national debate on american power’s decline. In the 2000 decade, it became one of the most used and the most misunderstood concepts of Internatioanl Relations. It is through demystification that we will explain the circulation of this scientific notion among the american academic and political fields
Persson, Elin. "TURBINE - FUELED BY COLLECTIVE POWER : - Notion(s) of Home(s) in Collective Housing in Hjorthagen." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-35694.
Full textLecaudé, Peggy. "La notion de puissance : les équivalents latins du grec dynamis." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040210.
Full textDynamis is a key word in the Greek thought, not only in philosophy, in which it has assumed a particular significance since Aristotle, but also in medicine, the natural sciences and mathematics. The present work aims to present the translation equivalents adopted by the Latin authors and translators in classical antiquity and in late or medieval Latin, according to a twofold approach. First, from an onomasiological perspective, we try to identify and analyse the different ways dynamis (as well as the words semantically connected to it) appears in a corpus of Latin texts, from Plautus’ comedies to Boethius’ translation of Aristotle’s Organon : as a loan word, a formal neologism, a transposition or, as in most cases, a translation. Second, from a semasiological perspective, we focus on the impact of the translation from Greek on a lexical group made of Latin words frequently used to translate dynamis, namely potestas (“possibility, power”), potentia (“potentiality, potency”), uis (“strength, violence”) and uirtus (“value, quality, virtue”). The uses of these words in a corpus of literary and scientific texts are examined, and the question is raised of how far they may be considered as semantic calques from the Greek term dynamis. The work thus aims to reconstruct a moment in the history of the Greek notion : that of its “conversion” into Latin, which was decisive for its expression in modern languages, in French as puissance, potentialité, vertu, virtualité, etc., in English as potency, potentiality, virtue, virtuality, etc
Braun, Arthur. "Le pouvoir régulateur du régime politique : étude d’une notion de droit constitutionnel institutionnel." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2019. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/ulprive/DDOC_T_2019_0139_BRAUN.pdf.
Full textThe expression "regulatory power" is inherited from the French Revolution. As recurrent in constitutional law, it is a third body specifically responsible for ensuring the regular functioning of political institutions. First entrusted to an ad hoc body specially created for this purpose, regulatory power became the prerogative of an idealized constitutional monarch in the 19th century. Strictly confined to the institutional sphere and thus far from the government and partisan quarrels, the king would only be responsible for maintaining the active powers balance. The "neutral power" outlined by Benjamin Constant between 1800 and 1815 is undoubtedly the most famous theoretical translation of this doctrine.In contemporary constitutional law, the notion of regulatory power allows to qualify a specific legal function whose purpose is the correct and smooth functioning of the political system, understood as a complex system composed of various interacting bodies. If this system has a significant social function, which is the government, the regulation pursued by the regulatory power must be seen as an internal activity of an institutional system distinct from society. Many contemporary constitutions have chosen to entrust this mission to a specific authority: the regulator, which is independent of both the government and the political parties. In practice, two bodies, one political and the other jurisdictional, are entitled to this role: the Head of State and the Constitutional Court.The purpose of our research is therefore to study and systematize this particular role sometimes assigned by constitutional law to the Head of State or to the Constitutional Court. In contemporary democratic systems, the institutional imbalance in favor of the Executive often appears blatant. In France, the majority presidentialism that we have known without interruption since 2002 is based on uncertain foundations, to say the least, so much so that a major institutional crisis could arise at any time; the historical and comparative study of the structure and functioning of political power becomes all the more urgent
Lecoeur, Chrystelle. "La notion d'intérêt de l'entreprise en droit du travail." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM1059.
Full textThe company’s interest is an important concept sparking lively doctrinal debate. What is the company’s interest ? Plenty of lessons, doctrinal approach do not lead to a consensus of un unified definition. Pure creation from the case law, the concept is used to control the decisions and behavior of the parties concerning to the employment relationship. Though the reference to the interest of the company is explicit regarding to the foundation or the conditions of exercise of the employer’s power, it helps neverthelessly to regulate behavior and decisions made by the employee. All actors contributing to the operation of the company must act in consistency with the "company’s interest". In this regard, the apprehension of this concept goes to be plural and functional. Membership of employees, as well as staff representatives entrepreneurial project implemented in the interest of the business require their participation in decision making. Despite of the successive reforms in this direction, we must recognize that the participation of employees in the management of the company remains very limited. This should probably change with the emergence of the concept of social corporate responsibility which is a new way of regulating of labor relations, tending to promote stakeholder accountability through enhanced participation. The evolution of social relations, induced by the world trade globalization having an impact on the structure of the company, requires necessary adjustments in the labor law. The aim is to achieve a balance between the protection of employees and their jobs and the sustainability of the company’s development
Ajjoub, Muhannad. "La notion de liberté contractuelle en droit administratif français." Thesis, Paris 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA020016.
Full textConcluding on the subject of freedom of contract in French administrative law is not easy. It depends essentially on how to raise the issue. So if the question is whether public persons have, as individuals, contractual freedom, the answer, in the best case is that this is a special character to freedom. Indeed, in practice, this freedom is very limited, its manifestations are marginal, which prevents us from truly speaking of a "happy freedom." But if the question is whether the French administrative law, from its peculiarities, its originality and its normative rules can recognize such freedom in favor of public entities, then the answer is negative. The public interest, the prerogatives of public power, competence, sovereignty, efficiency of public procurement, proper use of public money and the fundamental principles of public procurement, etc., are fundamental obstacles not only to the recognition of freedom of contract to public persons but also to the effective exercise by them. Some authors have concluded on the contractual freedom of public persons that "in theory it exists but in practice, nobody really ever met it"
Atwood, Nan T. "Rembrandt van Rijn's Jewish Bride: Depicting Female Power in the Dutch Republic Through the Notion of Nation Building." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3236.
Full textEvliyaoglu, Selçuk Abdullah. "La notion d'État unitaire en France et en Turquie." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01D076.
Full textThe context of the notion of unitary state is changing. The French Republic testifies it since the reforms of the decentralization of 1982. Indeed, there is a transition from the unitary state "typical" or "classic" to the unitary state "atypical" or "modern". Thus, a comparison between the French unitary state and the Turkish Republic which is strictly faithful to the unitary state structure makes it possible to demonstrate this transition. On the other hand, there are some States whose unitary structures have been transformed into another distinct form because of the exceeding of the limits of the permissible mutation of the unitary State, since these States devote a "political" or "legislative" decentralization within their organizations by assigning a legislative power to their local entities. The unity of the legislative power appears, on this point, as a condition "sine qua non" and an impassable limit in terms of the mutation of this form of State. But, the situation is a bit complex for the French unitary state in view of the exceptional position of certain communities to which legislative powers are attributed. This situation makes it necessary to admit that the unity of the legislative power is a general and essential rule in unitary States and that the existence of certain derogations does not affect the unitary state structure. However, if the attribution of the legislative power is a general rule, it will be possible to speak of the transformation of the unitary state towards another form of state
André, Paul. "La notion d'État dans la pensée politique chinoise et ses conséquences sur la scène internationale." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00511284.
Full textConker, Ahmet. "An enhanced notion of power for inter-state and transnational hydropolitics : an analysis of Turkish-Syrian water relations and the Ilısu Dam conflict between the opponents and proponents of the Dam." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48763/.
Full textSignat, Carine. "Le pouvoir discrétionnaire du juge et l'inexécution du contrat : étude de droit comparé franco-allemande." Thesis, Paris 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA020050.
Full textHow to measure a judge’s power? This question is necessary, when it comes to comparing the extent of the powers of a judge in various given jurisdictions. It has tobe noted, that the powers of a judge are gathered under diverse notions in national legal systems: successively, references are made to the sovereign judicial authority of the judge, the unfettered discretion of the lower courts, the authority to modify the legal situation, the discretionary power, the arbitrary power. The challenge in the comparison lies in the absence of a uniform measuring tool. On a supranational level,the English term“Judicial discretion”is very frequently the starting point for discussions and comparative analyses regarding the judge’s power. This notion serves as criteria to measure the extent of the judge’s powers in the respective legal systems. Discretionary power means the power given to the judge to choose between different decisions that are all conformable to law. The criterion of freedom of choice is in the center of the judge’s discretionary power. The discretionary power is the most powerful authority of the judge. It is common sense that the judge has a discretionarypower but the meaning of this term is differently interpretated by the national law,especially by the German and French law systems. This applies especially to the standards provisions or“open-textured”provisions : do they grant the judge a discretionary power? The answers vary from one system to the other, which has an impact on the image one has on the judge’s powers. Once these misunderstandings are dispelled, it remains to determine the proportion this power has in the consequences of the non-performance of contract: specific performance, delay inexecution, revision and termination
(14030764), Patricia K. L. Goon. "Subjectivity and its discontents: Theories of subjectivity and contemporary cultural contexts." Thesis, 1999. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Subjectivity_and_its_discontents_Theories_of_subjectivity_and_contemporary_cultural_contexts/21433626.
Full textThis thesis aims to examine the notion of subjectivity in terms of the theories posed by specific schools of thought, particularly with regard to the notion of resistance within the contexts of contemporary culture. It will be concerned primarily with the theories of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel de Certeau, as well as the contributions made by Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin.
The thesis begins with a discussion of theories which consider subjectivity as a narrative of commoditisation that sets up the potential for both violence and resistance. These theories include Lacanian psychoanalysis, Foucault's notion of power as production and prohibition, Bourdieu's theory of habitus and Butler's notion of performativity, all of which highlight the central issues of commoditisation and contingency as subjectivity's inherent anxiety or 'discontents'. The notion of the cyborg, a primary symptom of this anxiety in postcolonial times, is central to the project's argument of a recursive subjectivising process which must necessarily involve violence, if it is to provide any possibility for emancipation. The thesis goes on to examine the processes of contemporary cultural commoditisation in relation to the hegemonies cultivated by technology and the culture industry, using specific texts from the popular culture genres of science-fiction film and manga.
Lin, Lv-Hong, and 林綠紅. "On Foucault's Power ,Knowledge and the Body." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65026785172446397139.
Full textWong, Kit Mui Day. "Power and critique : Foucault's challenge to Habermas." Phd thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145683.
Full textLin, Yi-jung, and 林依蓉. "Knowledge and Power: A Comparison between Althusser's and Foucault's Theories of Knowledge." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36087038175951029554.
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外國語文學系
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Althusser’s theory of knowledge differs from traditional epistemology in that he begins to see knowledge as production. This view on knowledge is inspired by Marxism’s concept of production. Althusser believes that theories such as Hegelianism and empiricism fail to consider knowledge as production due to a confusion of ideality with materiality. When thought is confused with the real in an essence-phenomenon relation, their specificity is often passed over. Moreover, when thought is mistaken as an unchangeable essence, its historicity is bracketed. By investigating knowledge in terms of production, Althusser means to incorporate the often left-out theoretical practice into the social ensemble and account for the complex determinations among social practices. Althusser thinks Marxism as a science because its concept of production is a scientific one that grasps the truth of social formation. This belief presupposes a distinction between science and ideology. If dialectical materialism is universalized for providing a general principle, so is the category of scientificity, because Marxism is generalized for being a science. In this case, a distinction between science and ideology in terms of universal validity contradicts and invalidates the concept of knowledge as production. Foucault advances beyond Althusser in seeing scientific knowledge as production because he problematizes the concept of ideology and attempts to explore how truth is distinguished from falsehood. For Foucault, knowledge is a form of power in that it produces truth and normalizes the subject with its truth claim. The power exercised through knowledge is no longer a negative one, which represses with violence. Rather, the positive power associated with knowledge is more effective because it is non-violent and thus more acceptable. Besides, the productive power penetrates every level of the social whole through the channel of discourse that extends to the everyday life of each individual. However, Foucault stresses the effectiveness of power in the form of knowledge to the extent that knowledge becomes the only form of power. Such a total identification is a serious reduction that plays down the negative aspect of power. In this case, Foucault’s proposal for resistance is exclusively a discursive one, whose influences are limited when it comes to transformation of the status quo. After all, discourse is only one level of the social formation.
Bondy, Harry Joseph. "Outside the Wire: Foucault's Ethics and the Canadian Military." Doctoral thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-000D-F0A9-2.
Full textLee, Hua-Chun, and 李華峻. "The Transit of Media Management Patterns in Nantou County ─ a Perspective of Foucault's “Knowledeg╱Power” Model." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27703643514125220759.
Full text國立暨南國際大學
公共行政與政策學系
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The journalism of Taiwan, no matter before and after remove the martial law and remove the restriction on newspaper licensing opening, pose as national newspaper issued in the whole country, no matter how large the volume of capital is, organize scale, regard issuing in the whole country as goal too, so in the whole Taiwan all counties and cities in order to people work as and accredit a reporter in ground nearly all, and then obtain resources of local politics through such a way. This thesis use a perspective of Foucault's “Knowledeg╱Power” Model to find out the transit of media management patterns in Nantou County is this thesis research purport. This thesis before being newspaper ben with after regard as by different time of two pieces not ordering, grasp and let the news media in Nantou County manage the slight factor that the shape changes through “knowledge/power” way, it is and restriction on newspaper licensing with after development form it compare, and then to expand is clear to happen there aren't Nantou County the news medias.
Chang, Ya-Han, and 張雅涵. "Foucault's Theory of Power and the Technology of the Self as Shown in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25502198894110419922.
Full text國立高雄師範大學
英語學系
102
This thesis aims to interpret Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go in terms of Michel Foucault’s notions. Two particular aspects of Foucault’s theoretical conceptions would be examined: the power relation and the technology of the self. The first chapter consists of a general introduction of Kazuo Ishiguro, the reviews of Never Let Me Go and the research question. In Chapter Two, Foucault’s power theory of discipline and surveillance are expounded in detail. Chapter Three discusses how the power techniques are applied to form omnipresent and automatic power networks, which result in the clones’ docility. Chapter Four introduces Foucault’s theory of art of existence and the technology of the self. In addition, how clones utilize technology of friendship to make sense of their lives is explored in this chapter. The last section sums up the main ideas of the thesis and relate them to the existential question that Kazuo Ishiguro wants to explore in the novel. By placing the clones in the face of mandatory death, Ishiguro intends to invite the readers to reconsider the question that how we can make sense of our lives in the omnipresent power networks. By taking care of others and practicing ethical values, we can transcend the boundaries set by the power relations and access certain degree of freedom. Never Let Me Go certainly reveals Kazuo Ishiguro’s expectation of a world of virtues of equality.
Chen, Yu-wen, and 陳郁雯. "Michel Foucault's Theory of Power as Expressed in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and The Third Life of Grange Copeland." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95020784348937932091.
Full text國立高雄師範大學
英語教育研究所
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This thesis adopts Foucault's theory of power to discuss the miserablesituation of black women who are victims of both the white racism and black male sexism in Alice Walker's two novels--The Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple. According to Foucault, power is the production of society and is exercised through the use of body, sexuality, discipline and knowledge. Moreover, power is also closely related to the idea of domination. The white males, the power holders, exercise power over the dominated class--the black people. On the one hand, the black males are controlled by the whites and forced to be the dominated group. On the other hand, those black males exert their limited power at home and turn their wives and sons into the victims of sexism. Being controlled by both the white racism and black sexism black women have no power to fight against their men and society. What they can do is to accept and endure the mistreatments on them silently. As a black woman, Alice Walker clearly knows the pitiful situation of black women. Thus, she describes it in her novels. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one is a review of previous critiques of The Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple, and provides the purpose of this thesis. Chapter two provides a detailed explanation of Foucauldian theories. Chapterthree makes use of Foucault's concepts of power- knowledge, the functions of body, dicipline, social norms and sexuality to shed light on Grange and Brownfield Copelands' situation under the domination of whtes and Margaret, Memand Josie's miserable and inhuman treatments under the white racism and black male sexism. Chapter four employs Foucauldian conceptions of power-body,power- knowledge and sexuality to detect the pitiful situations of several female characters under the oppressions of both the white racism and the blackmale sexism. Chapter five is a concluding chapter which assesses the suitability of Foucauldian theory as a method to examine Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple.
Hu, Kai-Peng, and 胡鎧鵬. "Examine Japanese Manga and Anime from Nye's notion of "Soft Power"." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79019798103839594324.
Full textHuang-Chih-Hsiang and 黃致翔. "The Exploration of Social Work Professional Relationship in the Perspective of Foucault's Disciplinary Power: The Example of Army Ming-Te disciplining Center." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52669502782038486152.
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軍事社會行為科學研究所
93
This research employed the disciplinary power of Foucault to explore the professional relationship in the social work of military organizations. The purpose of this study was to present the experiences of being counseled and treated in the Army Ming-Te Disciplining Center. The way of power exercise was examined when the professional relationship was built and developed between workers and clients. Further, prudent and proper interventions were suggested for workers confronted by such power relations. This study was a qualitative research, and mainly applied in-depth interviews to gather data. The research subjects included six disciplined students and one counseling officer in the Army Ming-Te Disciplining Center, and six counseling officers from the students’ original units. It was argued that disciplinary power is behind counseling tasks in military organizations. Two types of the professional relationship of military organizations were divided: counselor-oriented and mutual professional relationship. The former involved a process of “individualizing the client’s problem and collectivizing treatment”. However, the later involved a process of mutual trust building and the substantial transformation from disciplinary power. Finally, three conclusions were proposed: (1) Equal concern and respect would contribute the construction of professional friendship. (2) Power-sharing could re-shape the professional relationship in military organizations. (3) Discourse participation would help clients empower themselves. It was expected that the mental health (counseling) personnel in the national army could combine treatment projects with an attitude of sincere care and respect. Their understanding and initiative assistance in solving clients’ problems could further minimize the power gap between counselors and clients. Therefore, the value of social work and empowerment of clients could be realized.
Angumuthoo, Maryanne. "An examination of the university as a disciplinary institution in terms of Michel Foucault's postmodernist concept of disciplinary power, with specific reference to the nature of power relations between students and faculty." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5174.
Full textEsdaille, Elroy Alister. "The Notion of Song, Identities, Discourses, and Power: Bridging Songs with Literary Texts to Enhance Students’ Interpretative Skills." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-39kn-9s34.
Full text(12691885), Shaikhul Md Islam. "Governmentality and corruption in Bangladesh: An analysis of strategic power." Thesis, 2003. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Governmentality_and_corruption_in_Bangladesh_An_analysis_of_strategic_power/19930274.
Full textUntil now corruption studies have been dominated by structuralism and Marxism, which define corruption as the 'abuse of public power' for private gain. This form of analysis is primarily concerned with the causal factors, that is, how public officials abuse law and public power to achieve a private gain in the form of bribery or kickbacks. While an analysis of abuse of public power is crucial in understanding how corruption is produced, the conventional analysis of corruption overlooks two important points. First, it does not view power as a contested concept and that there is no single version of power. Second, production of corruption is seen as proportional to the abuse of public power or breaking of law. In contrast, this thesis argues that corruption could crop up through the legitimate means of power. This form of power, which is conceptualised as a strategic form of power in Foucauldian literature is implicated in governmentality. The term corruption is used here in a broader sense than the conventional studies. It refers to activities that grossly violate the public gain objective of the government.
Foucault's concept of governmentality, which provides the theoretical framework of this study, signifies governance that is the ways a government govern things. It involves a combination of various institutions, authorities, knowledge, and expertise to problematise and address a situation of governance by constructing policies, plans and laws. Drawing on Foucault's concept of strategic power that identifies power as productive, ascending, intentional and non -subjective in relation to governmentality, this study shows that it is possible for a government to provide protection, security, financial benefits to some privileged private citizens by ignoring the public gain objective of the government.
Accordingly two cases of governmentality with reference to two particular legislations in Bangladesh known as the Indemnity Ordinance/ Act of 1975/1979 and the Father of Nation's Family Members Security Act of 2001 provide the empirical and discursive evidence of corruption for this study. Two Foucauldian methodologies, archaeology and genealogy, are used while genealogical analysis plays the prominent role.An analysis of governmentality demonstrates how strategic power has been used to construct laws for governing purpose in Bangladesh at least twice over the last twenty six years (1975-2001) implicating private gains for some citizens. From the evidences of the above two laws, this thesis shows that laws as governmentality in Bangladesh can also be seen as possible breeding grounds of corruption.
The study concludes that although the Indemnity Ordinance/Act 1975/1979 and the Father of Nation's Family Members Security Act 2001 do not show any bribery or kickbacks type of private gain, they do exhibit a subtle form of corruption within the legal boundaries of societies. That is, these two laws were constructed to achieve private gain for some private citizens of Bangladesh by undermining the vision of the Constitution of Bangladesh, which underscores and guarantees equity and social justice for all citizens of Bangladesh.
Kubica, František. "Vůle u Arthura Schopenhauera." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-435115.
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