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Abstract This article examines how everyday linguicism and racism shape the academic and social experiences of international students in Hong Kong, focusing on the racialized subjectivity of a South Asian graduate student. Although research on international students has mainly focused on Western higher education, little attention has been paid to the ...
Pramod K. Sah
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When Thriving for More Collapses the System: The Academic Reproduction of Uncaring Structures
Abstract This essay argues that the widening gap between aspirational aims and visionary orientations and the prevailing practices in neoliberal academia stems from deeper, historically rooted, market‐based logics shaping our institutions, increasingly governed by economic values and academic subjectivities therein.
Lara Pecis, Florian Bauer
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Inherited Advantage and the Myth of Meritocracy in Business Education in the UK
ABSTRACT Business schools are frequently presented as meritocratic institutions that reward talent, effort and entrepreneurial capability. This article examines how business education can simultaneously acknowledge inequality rhetorically while continuing to legitimize unequal outcomes pedagogically.
David Roberts
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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O presente artigo tem a objetivo de estudar as ideias de sociedade civil e de homo eoconomicus na aula do dia 4 de abril de 1979, tal como consta na obra Nascimento da Biopolítica, de Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Ao longo das páginas que se seguirão será feita uma introdução ao assunto ora investigado, bem como uma exposição do tema e aprofundamento da
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Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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El documental “Michel Foucault por si mismo” introduce un nuevo formato en la sección de Documentos de la revista. Lo hemos elegido porque creemos que es particularmente interesante en el contexto de este número, al introducirnos en algunas de las ...
Michel FOUCAULT
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This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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2ª. CONFERÊNCIA: PARRHESIA NAS TRAGÉDIAS DE EURÍPIDES
Hoje eu gostaria de começar analisando as primeiras ocorrências da palavraparrhesia na literatura grega, como a palavra aparece nas seguintes seis tragédias deEurípides:(1) Fenícias; (2) Hipólito; (3) As Bacantes; (4) Electra; (5) Íon; (6) Orestes.Nas ...
Michel Foucault
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