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Foucauldian

Foucauldian

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Related to Michel Foucault's ideas about power, knowledge, and society
  • adjective
  • /fuˈkoʊldɪən/
  • Jargon
: foucauldiano
  • A Foucauldian perspective on education examines how knowledge is linked to power structures in the classroom.
  • Foucauldian power
  • Foucauldian sense
  • Foucauldian feminist

Examples

  • A Foucauldian study of nursing faculty could focus on how the academic setting itself can be oppressive.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In a chapter co-written with Paul Boyle, Brown employs Foucauldian formulations of power and knowledge to analyze the closet at the national scale in order to attempt to locate lesbians and gays within both the U.S. and U.K. census.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Both argue that the export of imprisonment resulted in significant modifications to the form and function of the Foucauldian model.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The "after" portrait of the thin "self" suggests that thin bodies are Foucauldian "docile bodies."

    Academic text (2014)
  • The most widely cited Foucauldian feminist intervention is Judith Butler's 1990 book Gender Trouble.

    Academic text (1992)
  • In addition to describing the phenomenon of resistance to physical education from a Foucauldian and feminist framework, this paper suggests curricular implications arising from the theoretical frame.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Instead, it suggests that the principal worth of Foucauldian paradigms is not to be found in the uncritical application of their phraseology, but in the prompting of new areas of scholarly excavation.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Desire motivates the DL's resistance to out-homosexuality, and, in a Foucauldian turn, that resistance lines up with the motivations for both homosexuality and homophobic masculinity.

    Academic text (2017)
  • A humanist approaches the tenure materials in a mood of high seriousness and regard for tradition, while a Foucauldian queer theorist approaches them in a mood of partisan indignation and enthusiasm for political change.

    Academic text (2000)
  • In her thesis, she applied Foucauldian theories to analyze the relationship between surveillance and social control.

Surface Forms

Foucauldian positive

Morphology

Foucauldian = Foucault (opaque) = Foucault + ian

The suffix '-ian' denotes relation to Michel Foucault, but without prior knowledge of Foucault, the meaning is not transparent.

Etymology

Foucauldian comes from the name of the French thinker Foucault. He studied how 'power' and 'knowledge' work in places like schools, prisons and hospitals, so a Foucauldian way of looking at things pays attention to hidden power in everyday institutions.