Osnova sekce

  •  Compulsory reading:
    • Foucault, M. (1975). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Vintage Books. New York. Pp. 135-169 (Docile Bodies). 
     Guiding questions:
    • What is body politic?
    • What are docile bodies?
    • What is the relation between knowledge and power?
    • What is the relation between power and body? How does it work?
    • What is the main Foucault‘s focus? (in contrary to symbols in Mary Douglas‘s or practice in Bourdieu‘s approach)
     Discussion questions:
    • What is the relationship between the individual (body) and society?
    • How is Foucault‘ s approach different from the approach of Douglas and Mauss, Goffman or Bourdieu?
    • Symbolic body/social body; body techniques; normative of social situation; habitus-field…
    • Can you think about more examples of this theory application?
    • In relation to gender, beauty, illness, eating, health, sexual behaviour, death