Body, Power, Desire: Mapping Canadian Body History

Helps, Lisa

doi:10.3138/jcs.41.1.126

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“…29 To study affect is to analyse power. 30 The state, schooling, workplacesand leisure itselfhave been sites for both the exercise of power and resistance to it. These processes, in turn, have been bound up with feeling: a sense of escape and relaxation, enjoyable adult-sanctioned activities (as well as those not approved of ), the opportunity to create new forms of leisure and pleasure.…”

Section: Leisurementioning

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Histories of Adolescence and Affect: Setting an Agenda

Brickell

2015

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What did adolescence feel like in the past? This article explores the historical relationships between adolescence and affect – feeling, emotion and lived intensities – in order to explore this question. Drawing from a range of examples, it argues for a systematic consideration of the relationships between lived experience and broad historical shifts, in order to ascertain the ways individual affective lives have been shaped by changes in work, forms of leisure and sexual norms. It is then suggested that this systematic approach can be applied to other aspects of young people's lives as well. This is an argument to take feeling seriously and thereby take historical work on histories of adolescence in some new directions.

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Section: Leisurementioning

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Histories of Adolescence and Affect: Setting an Agenda

Brickell

2015

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“…However, in 1993 the conceptual tools for understanding this changing postmodern world of work were still embryonic. Since 1993, several streams of literature have evolved, providing a new context for understanding this phenomenon in the fitness industry, including: the sociology of the body (Shilling, 1993;Turner, 1996); emotional (Hochschild, 1983) and aesthetic labour (Warhurst et al, 2000); the social relations of production and space (Lefebvre, 1991;Moss, 1995); body history (Helps, 2007); the sociology of consumption (Saunders, 1988;Baudrillard, 1998;Ritzer, 2004); work identity (Du Gay, 1996;Strangleman, 2004); and aesthetic labour (Warhust et al, 2000;Warhurst and Nickson, 2007). In 2008 a review of this literature prompted a replication of the 1993 survey instrument.…”

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Ocularcentric Labour: “you don’t do this for money”

Sappey

Maconachie

2012

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This article is a response to Lansbury’s call (2009) in this journal for a re-conceptualization of work and employment. It supports Lansbury’s belief that the employment relationship cannot be understood in isolation from wider social change. Building on the tradition of emotional labour and aesthetic labour, this study introduces theoretically and empirically the concept of “ocularcentric labour” (the worker seeking the adoring gaze of the client as the primary employment reward). This paper seeks to establish: the empirical generalizability of ocularcentric labour; its conceptual differentiation with aesthetic and emotional labour; and the implications of ocularcentric labour for industrial relations and collective interest representation.Through a study of the employment relationship in the commercial health and fitness industry in Queensland (Australia), we identify this new type of labour as one in which the worker’s primary goal is to seek the psycho-social rewards gained from exposing their own body image. This quest shapes the employment relationship (both the organization of work and the conditions of employment). We argue that for many fitness workers the goal is to gain access to the positional economy of the fitness centre to promote their celebrity. For this they are willing to trade-off standard conditions of employment and direct earnings, and exchange traditional employment rewards for the more intrinsic psycho-social rewards gained through the exposure of their physical capital to the adoration of their gazing clients. As one worker said “You don’t do this for money.” Significantly, with ocularcentric labour the worker becomes both the site of production and consumption.The study draws on quantitative and qualitative data captured from the Australian health and fitness industry with one snapshot taken in 1993 and another in 2008. The conclusion draws together the key conceptual and empirical points and findings and examines the implications for the conceptualization of IR in the contemporary economy.Cet article constitue une réponse à l’appel de Lansbury (2009) dans cette revue en faveur d’une conceptualisation renouvelée du travail et de l’emploi. Il appuie la position de Lansbury à l’effet que la relation d’emploi ne peut être comprise sans tenir compte de son contexte social plus large. Construisant selon la tradition du travail émotionnel et du travail esthétique, l’étude introduit théoriquement et empiriquement le concept de travail « ocularocentriste » (en anglais ocularcentric labour, c’est-à-dire dans l’exercice duquel le travailleur ou la travailleuse recherche l’appréciation admirative du client comme source première de rétribution). Ce texte cherche à établir la généralisabilité du travail centré sur le regard, sa différence conceptuelle d’avec le travail esthétique et émotionnel ...

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Physical Capital and Its Consequences for Fitness Workers in Queensland

Maconachie

Sappey

2011

Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic rel

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Body, Power, Desire: Mapping Canadian Body History

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Histories of Adolescence and Affect: Setting an Agenda

Histories of Adolescence and Affect: Setting an Agenda

Ocularcentric Labour: “you don’t do this for money”

Physical Capital and Its Consequences for Fitness Workers in Queensland

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