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New perspectives on discourse and governmentality

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A comprehensive overview of Foucault's publications that are relevant both to discourse studies and to studies of governmentality can be found in this paper, with a thorough assessment of the reverberations of the later work on governmentality to clarify its contemporary relevance for discourse studies.
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In this comprehensive overview we familiarise readers with Michel Foucault’spublications that are relevant both to discourse studies and to studies of governmentality.We review the narrow impact that Foucault’s ideas have had ondiscourse studies and summarise the scant literature on discourse and governmentalityacross different disciplines. We elucidate the new scholarly understandingsof Foucault’s later work, as well as engage with the debates aboutgovernmentality that have been generated after Foucault. In particular, we give athorough assessment of the reverberations of Foucault’s later work on governmentalityto clarify its contemporary relevance for discourse studies. Lastly,we introduce and contextualise the theoretical, methodological and analyticalinnovations in discourse studies to be found in the chapters in this volume,before concluding on the contributions that the book makes to both discoursestudies and studies of governmentality.

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Politics and the political in critical discourse studies: state of the art and a call for an intensified focus on the metapolitical dimension of discursive practice

TL;DR: Based on an overview of the ways in which politics and the political have been thought in critical discourse analysis (CDA), the author calls for a focus on the metapolitical dimension of discourse as mentioned in this paper.
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A Poststructural Analysis of the Health and Wellbeing of Young Lesbian Identified Women in New Zealand

TL;DR: A poststructural feminist approach to young lesbian health and wellbeing in New Zealand is discussed in this article, with a focus on the limits of the health and well-being of young lesbians.
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Outsourcing adaptation: examining the role and influence of consultants in governing climate change adaptation

Svenja Keele
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Declaration and acknowledgements of the work of the authors. Table of Table 1 shows the main points of the Declaration: 1) Acknowledgements
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Across Serostatus: a Study of Subjugation and Resistance in Older Gay Men’s Experiences Navigating Health Care

TL;DR: This qualitative study utilizes a poststructuralist approach to grounded theory known as situational analysis to examine older gay men’s experiences with health care, and highlights the role of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in constructing health care as a site of subjugation and resistance for these men.
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Many faces of patriotism: pariotic dispositif and creative (counter-)conduct of Russian fashion designers

TL;DR: In this article, the multiplicity of discoursive articulations of patriotism in Russia in the context of "patriotic frenzy" observed in the country and reached in fashion is explored.
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New Environmental Theories: Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally Significant Behavior

TL;DR: A conceptual framework for advancing theories of environmentally significant individual behavior and reports on the attempts of the author's research group and others to develop such a theory is developed in this article. But, it does not consider the effect of environmental concern on individual behavior.
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Toward a Theory of Social Practices A Development in Culturalist Theorizing

TL;DR: The main characteristics of practice theory, a type of social theory which has been sketched by such authors as Bourdieu, Giddens, Taylor, late Foucault and others, are discussed in this paper.
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Governing economic life

Peter Miller, +1 more
- 01 Feb 1990 - 
TL;DR: This article argued that governmentality has a characteristically "programmatic" form, and that it is inextricably bound to the invention and evaluation of technologies that seek to improve government power.
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Inventing our selves : psychology, power, and personhood

TL;DR: A critical history of psychology can be found in this article, with a focus on the history of "the self" and "individualizing" technology of psychology as an individualizing technology.
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Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify two principles that are key to state spatialization: vertically (thestate is "above" society) and encompassm ent (state "encompasses" its localities).
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