Exploring regimes of discipline : the dynamics of restraint / edited by Noel Dyck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dyck, Noel.

Series:

EASA series ; v. 8.

EASA series ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discipline.

Discipline--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612626739

9781282626737

1282626736

9780857450227

0857450220

OCLC:

645101000