Contemporary Theory, Poststructuralism & Governmentality
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Dave Nicholls
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- About me
- I am a lecturer in physiotherapy in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at AUT University in Auckland. Having used Foucault for my PhD looking at the discursive construction of physiotherapy practice, I have become interested in postmodernism, poststructuralism, governmentality and technologies of discipline.
- Research interests
- Postmodernism, poststructuralism, governmentality, technologies of discipline, rehabilitation, the body and society, professionalisation, health care reform.
- Key theorists used
- Foucault, Deleuze
- Website Address
- http://www.bodypolitics.co.nz
- Publications
- Nicholls, D. A. (2009). Putting Foucault to work: an approach to the practical application of Foucault’s methodological imperatives. Aporia, 1(1), 30-40.
Nicholls, D. A., & Cheek, J. (2006). Physiotherapy and the shadow of prostitution: The Society of Trained Masseuses and the massage scandals of 1894. Social Science & Medicine, 62(9), 2336-2348.
Nicholls, D. A., Walton, J. A., & Price, K. (2009). Breathing new life into old regimes of practice. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 13(3), 337-360.
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