Docile bodies
Section outline
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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
- Foucault, M. (1975). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Vintage Books. New York. Pp. 135-169 (Docile Bodies).