Roger Deacon
Biographic Data
| ID | 770210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Deacon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Deacon |
| SIGNATURE | DEACON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Education policy studies in South Africa, 1995–2006
This article reports on findings pertaining to scholarship in education policy drawn from a wider study on all education research in South Africa from 1995 to 2006. This study, which defined education research as broadly pertaining to teaching and/or learning, obtained extensive data from a wide range of sources, including universities, public institutions, NGOs, Education and Training Authorities, museums, publishers, donor agencies, trade union…
A Punishment More Bitter Than Death' Dirck Coornhert's Boeven-tucht and the Rise of Discipline
Too Dependent to Participate
Will participatory local government structures help deepen democracy in South Africa? That is the proclaimed purpose of the ward committee system, the centre-piece of post-apartheid local government reform, intended to facilitate deliberative democratic decision making. Drawing on a case study of the Msunduzi municipality, it is argued here that ward committees, as yet barely functional seven years since first being established, have from the out…
Equity and excellence
Education development in South Africa emerged during the transition from apartheid to democracy, in a context especially marked by political and financial pressures. This case study of the University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu‐Natal) demonstrates how a strategy combining equity with excellence aimed to facilitate increased access to the institution, while maintaining existing standards. Central to this was the creation of a new acade…
Les Ward Committees À Msunduzi
Cet article explore la relation des ward committees, institution récente de la démocratie locale sud-africaine, avec les partis politiques. Cette interrogation s’inscrit dans le contexte du « syndrome du parti dominant » associé à l’African National Congress (ANC) au pouvoir depuis 1994. S’appuyant sur le cas de la municipalité de Msunduzi, l’article montre que lorsque les ward committees fonctionnent, ils restent sous l’influence des partis à l’…
Pacifying the Planet
Globalization presages an important new stage in the centuries-old 'civilizing process,' which Norbert Elias analyzed with such clarity and in such depth. At the root of the fundamental transformations of our world of nation-states are combined integrating and disintegrating tendencies, or centralization and individualization, which manifest themselves in a steady monopolization of the means of violence and taxation, an interventionist human righ…
From Confinement to Attachment
This article develops a Foucauldian account of the rise of the modern school, on the basis of a thorough examination of all references to education in Foucault's work. It analyses the seventeenth-century origins of mass schooling and traces its development up to the nineteenth century. It identifies several overlapping stages in this multifaceted and largely contingent development, particularly a fundamental shift from a negative to a positive co…
Addressing Empire
Fabricating Foucault
Enlightenment, truth and the critique of reason -- Genealogy and the problematization of enlightenment -- Power as sovereignty and the history of discipline -- Reconceptualising power relations -- The production of subjectivity
Human Rights as Imperialism
Truth, Power and Pedagogy
(2002). Truth, Power and Pedagogy: Michel Foucault on the rise of the disciplines. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 435-458
An analytics of power relations
To understand how we have become what we are requires, following Foucault, not a theory but an `analytics' which examines how technologies of power and knowledge have, since antiquity, intertwined and developed in concrete and historical frameworks. Distilling from Foucault's oeuvre as a whole a rough periodization of western political rationalities, this article shows how the processes whereby some people discipline or govern others are frequent…
Strategies of Governance
How and why is it that we in the West, in our arduous and incessant search for truth, have also built into and around ourselves intricate and powerful systems intended to manage all that we know and do? This, arguably, was the key problem to which Foucault applied himself. Central to his critical, historical ontology of Western, and especially Enlightenment, reason is an investigation of the constitutive relations between the operation of power r…
Discourses of Discipline in South Africa
Education as Subjection and Refusal
Over the past decade the insights of debates on modernity and postmodernity, in the context of sweeping poststructuralist proclamations of the end of meta‐narratives and the death of the subject amidst the diffusion of a globalizing Western culture and intimations of large‐scale social change, have begun to infiltrate the field of education. Within the broader framework of poststructuralist criticisms of the assumptions which gird a still‐potent …
Power, knowledge and community video revisited
Criticos and Quinlan, in previously published papers in this publication and elsewhere, suggest that their community video projects have achieved the ideals of critical practice. Critical practice emphasizes the democratic participation by all in social constructions and the transformation of knowledge, and the world. This article argues that Criticos’ and Quinlan's community video projects were not able to live up to the standards and practices …
Hegemony, Essentialism and Radical History in South Africa
(1991). Hegemony, Essentialism and Radical History in South Africa. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 166-184
Education as Subjection and Refusal
Over the past decade the insights of debates on modernity and postmodernity, in the context of sweeping poststructuralist proclamations of the end of meta‐narratives and the death of the subject amidst the diffusion of a globalizing Western culture and intimations of large‐scale social change, have begun to infiltrate the field of education. Within the broader framework of poststructuralist criticisms of the assumptions which gird a still‐potent …
An analytics of power relations
To understand how we have become what we are requires, following Foucault, not a theory but an `analytics' which examines how technologies of power and knowledge have, since antiquity, intertwined and developed in concrete and historical frameworks. Distilling from Foucault's oeuvre as a whole a rough periodization of western political rationalities, this article shows how the processes whereby some people discipline or govern others are frequent…
Too Dependent to Participate
Will participatory local government structures help deepen democracy in South Africa? That is the proclaimed purpose of the ward committee system, the centre-piece of post-apartheid local government reform, intended to facilitate deliberative democratic decision making. Drawing on a case study of the Msunduzi municipality, it is argued here that ward committees, as yet barely functional seven years since first being established, have from the out…
Hegemony, Essentialism and Radical History in South Africa
(1991). Hegemony, Essentialism and Radical History in South Africa. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 166-184
Truth, Power and Pedagogy
(2002). Truth, Power and Pedagogy: Michel Foucault on the rise of the disciplines. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 435-458
From Confinement to Attachment
This article develops a Foucauldian account of the rise of the modern school, on the basis of a thorough examination of all references to education in Foucault's work. It analyses the seventeenth-century origins of mass schooling and traces its development up to the nineteenth century. It identifies several overlapping stages in this multifaceted and largely contingent development, particularly a fundamental shift from a negative to a positive co…
Education policy studies in South Africa, 1995–2006
This article reports on findings pertaining to scholarship in education policy drawn from a wider study on all education research in South Africa from 1995 to 2006. This study, which defined education research as broadly pertaining to teaching and/or learning, obtained extensive data from a wide range of sources, including universities, public institutions, NGOs, Education and Training Authorities, museums, publishers, donor agencies, trade union…
Equity and excellence
Education development in South Africa emerged during the transition from apartheid to democracy, in a context especially marked by political and financial pressures. This case study of the University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu‐Natal) demonstrates how a strategy combining equity with excellence aimed to facilitate increased access to the institution, while maintaining existing standards. Central to this was the creation of a new acade…
Pacifying the Planet
Globalization presages an important new stage in the centuries-old 'civilizing process,' which Norbert Elias analyzed with such clarity and in such depth. At the root of the fundamental transformations of our world of nation-states are combined integrating and disintegrating tendencies, or centralization and individualization, which manifest themselves in a steady monopolization of the means of violence and taxation, an interventionist human righ…
Strategies of Governance
How and why is it that we in the West, in our arduous and incessant search for truth, have also built into and around ourselves intricate and powerful systems intended to manage all that we know and do? This, arguably, was the key problem to which Foucault applied himself. Central to his critical, historical ontology of Western, and especially Enlightenment, reason is an investigation of the constitutive relations between the operation of power r…
Discourses of Discipline in South Africa
Power, knowledge and community video revisited
Criticos and Quinlan, in previously published papers in this publication and elsewhere, suggest that their community video projects have achieved the ideals of critical practice. Critical practice emphasizes the democratic participation by all in social constructions and the transformation of knowledge, and the world. This article argues that Criticos’ and Quinlan's community video projects were not able to live up to the standards and practices …
Hegemony, Essentialism and Radical History in South Africa
(1991). Hegemony, Essentialism and Radical History in South Africa. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 166-184
Power, knowledge and community video revisited
Criticos and Quinlan, in previously published papers in this publication and elsewhere, suggest that their community video projects have achieved the ideals of critical practice. Critical practice emphasizes the democratic participation by all in social constructions and the transformation of knowledge, and the world. This article argues that Criticos’ and Quinlan's community video projects were not able to live up to the standards and practices …
Education as Subjection and Refusal
Over the past decade the insights of debates on modernity and postmodernity, in the context of sweeping poststructuralist proclamations of the end of meta‐narratives and the death of the subject amidst the diffusion of a globalizing Western culture and intimations of large‐scale social change, have begun to infiltrate the field of education. Within the broader framework of poststructuralist criticisms of the assumptions which gird a still‐potent …
Discourses of Discipline in South Africa
Strategies of Governance
How and why is it that we in the West, in our arduous and incessant search for truth, have also built into and around ourselves intricate and powerful systems intended to manage all that we know and do? This, arguably, was the key problem to which Foucault applied himself. Central to his critical, historical ontology of Western, and especially Enlightenment, reason is an investigation of the constitutive relations between the operation of power r…
Truth, Power and Pedagogy
(2002). Truth, Power and Pedagogy: Michel Foucault on the rise of the disciplines. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 435-458
An analytics of power relations
To understand how we have become what we are requires, following Foucault, not a theory but an `analytics' which examines how technologies of power and knowledge have, since antiquity, intertwined and developed in concrete and historical frameworks. Distilling from Foucault's oeuvre as a whole a rough periodization of western political rationalities, this article shows how the processes whereby some people discipline or govern others are frequent…
Fabricating Foucault
Enlightenment, truth and the critique of reason -- Genealogy and the problematization of enlightenment -- Power as sovereignty and the history of discipline -- Reconceptualising power relations -- The production of subjectivity
Human Rights as Imperialism
Addressing Empire
From Confinement to Attachment
This article develops a Foucauldian account of the rise of the modern school, on the basis of a thorough examination of all references to education in Foucault's work. It analyses the seventeenth-century origins of mass schooling and traces its development up to the nineteenth century. It identifies several overlapping stages in this multifaceted and largely contingent development, particularly a fundamental shift from a negative to a positive co…
Pacifying the Planet
Globalization presages an important new stage in the centuries-old 'civilizing process,' which Norbert Elias analyzed with such clarity and in such depth. At the root of the fundamental transformations of our world of nation-states are combined integrating and disintegrating tendencies, or centralization and individualization, which manifest themselves in a steady monopolization of the means of violence and taxation, an interventionist human righ…
Les Ward Committees À Msunduzi
Cet article explore la relation des ward committees, institution récente de la démocratie locale sud-africaine, avec les partis politiques. Cette interrogation s’inscrit dans le contexte du « syndrome du parti dominant » associé à l’African National Congress (ANC) au pouvoir depuis 1994. S’appuyant sur le cas de la municipalité de Msunduzi, l’article montre que lorsque les ward committees fonctionnent, ils restent sous l’influence des partis à l’…
A Punishment More Bitter Than Death' Dirck Coornhert's Boeven-tucht and the Rise of Discipline
Too Dependent to Participate
Will participatory local government structures help deepen democracy in South Africa? That is the proclaimed purpose of the ward committee system, the centre-piece of post-apartheid local government reform, intended to facilitate deliberative democratic decision making. Drawing on a case study of the Msunduzi municipality, it is argued here that ward committees, as yet barely functional seven years since first being established, have from the out…
Equity and excellence
Education development in South Africa emerged during the transition from apartheid to democracy, in a context especially marked by political and financial pressures. This case study of the University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu‐Natal) demonstrates how a strategy combining equity with excellence aimed to facilitate increased access to the institution, while maintaining existing standards. Central to this was the creation of a new acade…
Education policy studies in South Africa, 1995–2006
This article reports on findings pertaining to scholarship in education policy drawn from a wider study on all education research in South Africa from 1995 to 2006. This study, which defined education research as broadly pertaining to teaching and/or learning, obtained extensive data from a wide range of sources, including universities, public institutions, NGOs, Education and Training Authorities, museums, publishers, donor agencies, trade union…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (4 works)