Michel Foucault

Introduction Work constantly evolves due to advancing technologies, enlightened management strategies, work reorganization, neoliberal government policies, union involvement, globalization, and environmental sustainability issues. A growing service- and knowledge-based economy in Canada supersedes the historical agricultural and production-based one, and this poses new challenges to the state, management, and workers in the employment relationship and within the labour market. Decisions made by…

With regards to the moral stance of monogamy, homicide, theft etc, we are very much divided again. Within the Nuer tribe, who follow the spiritual essence of the totem, polygamy is very much accepted, often identified as natural. Whereas, within more traditional religious cultures, it is thought of as sinful and intrinsically wrong. Additionally, many societies would see the killing of another human being as inherently wrong, something which could be ascribed as an absolute universal truth.…

In 2010, Beam Global Sprits and Wine launched an advertising campaign aptly titled “Provocatively Premium” to launch their recently acquired brand Effen Vodka. Being launched in 2003, the brand was relatively young. The campaign had to be align with the bold and risky character of the brand. The campaign was designed and executed by the advertising agency Euro RSCG, Chicago, USA. I will use Semiotic analysis theory which finds it’s first mentions in a the book Course on General Linguistics by…

Unfortunately, it is simply beyond the scope of this paper to analyze the entirety of these two productions of A Doll’s House. As a result, three scenes will be compared, contrasted, and analyzed through Butler’s theory in order to examine these gender performances. The three scenes chosen for this endeavor are as follows: Nora’s discussion with Torvald in the very beginning of Act I, Nora practicing the tarantella dance before the party in Act II, and Nora and Torvald’s final confrontation in…

In this study, we will be examining Gaetano Donizetti’s 1835 bel canto opera Lucia Di Lammermoor and its treatment of the title character’s mental disorder, from a feminist perspective. Lucia’s madness is hinted at multiple times during the unfolding of the story and as the dramatic tension rises, but it has fully developed by the time when, in the midst of the wedding celebrations in Act III, Raimondo appears and tells the assembled guests that Lucia has murdered her bridegroom, Arturo. Lucia’s…

However, these findings also cast doubt on several widely held theories within the field. First, according to Blanton this extreme drought drastically reduced local corn production, beginning the year before the settlement of Jamestown. The resistance of local Native Americans to consistently trade corn with the newly arrived English, the main catalyst for hostilities, was likely an effect of this reduced harvest and not an attempt by indigenous people to drive up prices or starve out the…

grounded in language and discourse and expressed in narrative form” (p. 6). This is known as the linguistic turn, sparked in the late 1960s by such postmodern theorists as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault, and poses interesting normative and methodological challenges for public administration and policy studies. This paper will first clarify interpretivism and its various interpretations; discuss the centrality of narratives and human…

art or text. Historicist charge themselves with the political function of literature and with the notion of power, the abstruse means by which cultures cultivate and reproduce themselves. The approach owes much of its momentum to the work of Michel Foucault, who based the idea on his theory of the limits of cumulative cultural discernment followed by his technique of examining an extensive array of documents to understand the episteme of a time thus, illustrating a literary text as an expression…

In many ways, Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues does more than explore what it means to be a part of the LGBTQ community. In many ways, Stone Butch Blues is a “how to” book just as much as it is a lifeline for the LGBTQ community. It is a “how to” book in the sense it examines how to be a member of the LGBTQ community, while at the same time revealing the follies of a definitive correct way how. In doing so, Feinberg reveals not only the performative nature of gender, but also how the concept…

He claims the concept of mental illness treatment has grown controversial for historians since a book by Michel Foucault was published in 1965 called Madness and Civilization. This book argued mental institutions and prisons have been used by elites as a form of social control since the early eighteenth century. This viewpoint is thought to be a contributing factor…