UID:
almafu_9961373437602883
Format:
1 online resource (166 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-62673-6
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9786612626739
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0-85745-022-0
Series Statement:
EASA series ; v. 8
Content:
The pursuit and practice of discipline have become near ubiquitous elements of contemporary social life and parlance, as discipline has become a commonplace and ever sought-after social technology. From the celebrated "discipline of the market" proclaimed by neo-liberal politicians, to self-actualizing experiences of embodied discipline proffered by martial arts instructors, this volume showcases highly varied and complex disciplinary practices and relationships in a set of ethnographic studies. Interrogating the respective fields of work, religion, governance, leisure, education and child rea
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Anthropological perspectives on discipline : an introduction to the issues / Noel Dyck -- The legacy of Vieskeri : performativity and discipline in amateur trotting racing in Finland / Susanne Adahl -- Targeting immigrant children : disciplinary rationales in Danish preschools / Helle Bundgaard and Eva Gullv -- The discipline of being hospital porters : transcending hierarchy and institution / Nigel Rapport -- Governance as a regime of discipline / Susan Wright -- Creatively sculpting the self through the discipline of martial arts training / Tamara Kohn -- The fertile body and cross-fertilization of disciplinary regimes : technologies of self in a Polish Catholic youth movement / Esther Peperkamp -- The practice of discipline and the discipline of practice / Peter Collins.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84545-401-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780857450227
