Individualization of Responsibility for Health and Entrepreneurship of the Self as Neoliberal Strategies of Bodily Subjectivation and Contemporary Life Management
Abstract:This article analyzes discursive strategies by which health behaviors are instituted in the management of people's lives in contemporary times from the entrepreneurial neoliberal rationality. To do so, it resumes utterances about health and physical activity in the pandemic context and discusses their relations with key concepts that operate in the embodiment of the neoliberal management model. Such embodiment refers to the uses of human labor (which include body and health care practices) under the aegis of t… Show more
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