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Foucault, Michel 

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A Dictionary of Sports Studies
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Alan Tomlinson

(1926–84)A French philosopher-sociologist whose works on the history of sexuality and on the essentially power-laden nature of knowledge and its reproduction had worldwide impact in the social sciences in the last quarter of the 20th century. His notions of disciplinary power (picking up on Jeremy Bentham's notion of the ... ...

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