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Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture5 Ways Hogwarts Helps Us Understand Foucault’s ‘Docile Bodies’

Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture: 5 Ways Hogwarts Helps Us Understand Foucault’s... [Hogwarts, the school in the Harry Potter novel series, controls and shapes the experiences and adventures of the protagonists in ways that are best understood through the work of Michel Foucault. Michel Foucault (1926–1984) is a French post-modern philosopher most notable for his theories of power and social structures. Foucault is one of the most influential thinkers in the humanities, and thousands of academic books and articles use theoretical tools based on his work. The Harry Potter novels (1997–2007) by J.K. Rowling are the best-selling book series in history and have become the centre of a pop culture network including blockbuster films (2001–2011, 2016–ongoing), a digital platform Pottermore, video games, spin-off books, a play, amusement parks and fan works. Foucault’s ‘Docile Bodies’, from perhaps his best known book Discipline and Punish (1975), is often taught at foundation level in sociology, cultural studies, historical studies, literary studies and education.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture5 Ways Hogwarts Helps Us Understand Foucault’s ‘Docile Bodies’

Part of the Critical Studies of Education Book Series (volume 15)
Editors: Barnes, Naomi; Bedford, Alison
Firth, Katherine
Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture — Aug 27, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-77010-5
Pages
113 –124
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-77011-2_10
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[Hogwarts, the school in the Harry Potter novel series, controls and shapes the experiences and adventures of the protagonists in ways that are best understood through the work of Michel Foucault. Michel Foucault (1926–1984) is a French post-modern philosopher most notable for his theories of power and social structures. Foucault is one of the most influential thinkers in the humanities, and thousands of academic books and articles use theoretical tools based on his work. The Harry Potter novels (1997–2007) by J.K. Rowling are the best-selling book series in history and have become the centre of a pop culture network including blockbuster films (2001–2011, 2016–ongoing), a digital platform Pottermore, video games, spin-off books, a play, amusement parks and fan works. Foucault’s ‘Docile Bodies’, from perhaps his best known book Discipline and Punish (1975), is often taught at foundation level in sociology, cultural studies, historical studies, literary studies and education.]

Published: Aug 27, 2021

Keywords: Foucault; Hogwarts; Docile bodies; Discipline; Subversion; Resistance; Enclosure; Surveillance; Functional sites; Machine

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