Power and subjectivity : a Foucauldian discourse analysis of experiences of power in learning difficulties community care homes.
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Summary
The crucial findings are that care residents' lives are characterised by differential power relationships in which they occupy a subordinate "place" in their homes, and that they struggle with this position and experience problems with it in relation to their own self-understanding.
- Type
- dissertation
- Published
- 2002-01-01
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 257
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W803803277
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:69162819
Keywords
Subjectivity, Power (physics), Sociology, Discourse analysis, Gender studies
References
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- The creatures time forgot : photography and disability imagery
- Psychology as metaphor
- Self Advocacy and Adults with Learning Difficulties: Contexts and Debates
- Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism
- Group homes and community integration of developmentally disabled people : micro-institutionalisation?
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- Changing relationships with the self and others: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of a Traveller and Gypsy life in public care
- Towards a “Critical Ontology of Ourselves”?
- Beyond normalization and impairment: theorizing subjectivity in learning difficulties – theory and practice
- A Fine Balance: Stories of parents who climb
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