Exploring regimes of discipline [[electronic resource] ] : the dynamics of restraint / / edited by Noel Dyck

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.3
• Soggetto topico: Discipline
• Altri autori: DyckNoel
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Ådahl -- Targeting immigrant children : disciplinary rationales in Danish preschools / Helle Bundgaard and Eva Gulløv -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Exploring regimes of discipline
• ISBN: 1-282-62673-6; 9786612626739; 0-85745-022-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791363203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: EASA series ; ; v. 8.