Michael D. Smith
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Michael D. Smith
@mikey068.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Kobe University, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies. Researcher of educational policy, chiefly the inflexions between neoliberalism and human conduct. UCL IoE alum, University of Bath doctoral graduate. https://www.mikesmith.info
Free access to my latest publication: a brief "dissertation highlight" of my recently concluded doctoral project. Here, I draw on Foucauldian governmentality to explore the entrepreneurial subjectification of Japanese college-age learners. Have at it, y'all!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VFR7Z...
From shōnen to shakaijin: governing neoliberal subjectivity in Japan’s “credential society”
This doctoral thesis explores the educational journeys of Japanese learners enrolled in a Top Global University Project college. Drawing on Foucauldian governmentality and grounded in a phenomenolo...
www.tandfonline.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
In all seriousness, though. Nothing but love for that Japanese person who named their cat "Foucault".
December 23, 2024 at 9:49 AM
So, you know... I'm new here. Anyway, I was looking for interesting people to follow, like those sharing similar research interests, so I searched "Foucault."

Sans the Japanese person who named their cat after him, Jesus Christ... no thanks. Back to the warm embrace of "Bourdieu people" I go.
December 23, 2024 at 9:03 AM
I'm new here and not really sure what's up. Like the meerkat offering fruit to establish in-group social bonds, I come to you with free-access tokens for my latest publication:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6JXXX...
Cosmopolitan nationalism as higher education policy? Converging and diverging discourses from China, Japan, and Korea
This critical discourse analysis explores cosmopolitan nationalism as neoliberal reform within East Asian higher education (HE). Placing cosmopolitan nationalism within the Foucauldian genealogical...
www.tandfonline.com
December 20, 2024 at 5:07 AM