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One dimensional man
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“Know your customer”: marketing, governmentality and the “new consumer” of financial services
TL;DR: The authors argued that the danger of such neo-liberalist solutions lies in their rhetoric of liberalisation and empowerment which does much to obscure the governmental operation of power in modern societies, and argued that to understand governmentality, power relations must be reconceptualised beyond notions of institutional power and repressive mechanisms of control towards an understanding of their productive and seductive operation.
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Sociology and international relations: legacies and prospects
George Lawson,Robbie Shilliam +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the sociological turn in IR and interrogated it from a novel vantage point, how sociologists themselves approach IR concepts, debates and issues, and three sociological approaches (classical social theory, historical sociology and Foucauldian analysis) are critically deployed to illuminate IR concerns.
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Bringing lost sheep into the fold: questioning the discourse of the digital divide
TL;DR: The research consisted of 47 semi‐structured interviews and action research involving designing an e‐literacy curriculum and running a course based on it, and led to objectifying non‐users of information and communication technologies as “others”.
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Critical Reflection as an Adult Learning Process
TL;DR: In this paper, the power dynamics that frame practice and uncovering and challenging hegemonic assumptions (those assumptions we embrace as being in our best interests when in fact they are working against us) are discussed.
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Staged Authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
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Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism
TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors explored the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self and found that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism.
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What is critical urban theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret critical urban theory with reference to four mutually interconnected elements: its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible.
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Self-doubters, strugglers, storytellers, surfers and others: Images of self-identities in organization studies
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature, including self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers.