Normative Embodiment. The Role of the Body in Foucault's Genealogy. A Phenomenological Re-Reading

Wehrle, Maren

doi:10.1080/00071773.2015.1105645

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“…On the other hand, he refers to a type of individual empowerment, taking the case of the Greek-Roman philosophical tradition of "care of the self"; a regulated form of human existence and harmony between words and deeds which is expressed through social practices and discourses. On a similar line, Wehrle (2016) argues that Foucault's thought has transitioned from recognizing the subject as being passive and subjugated to recognizing an active subject; which is not only able to reflect, but also to exercise power on his/herself. Taking the case of phenomenologist Edmund Husserl's example of double sensation (touching a touched hand while feeling the touch and being touched at the same time), she states that the "care of the self" could be interpreted as a type of phenomenological awareness of one's movements and thus a base for self-reflection and critical thought.…”

Section: An Existential Perspectivementioning

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Hell is other people? An existential-phenomenological analysis of the local gaze in tourism

Wassler

Kirillova

2019

Tourism Management

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The "Gaze" is a complex and overarching phenomenon comprised of diverse "Gazers" and "Gazees". This paper adopts an existential-phenomenological perspective to understand tourists' lived experiences of being gazed upon by local people. Based on thirty experiences collected from interviews with ten participants, we show that experiencing the "Local Gaze" exposes the tourist as Sartrean "Tourist-esque": an inauthentic experiencer of positivity, discrimination, alienation and self-consciousness. Moments of true human connections are at best ephemeral. Through an existentialist lens, the study questions the possibility of authentic host-guest relationship in tourism and argues that to maintain hopes for an authentic relationship, the concepts of "Gaze" and-perhaps even of "Tourism"-need to be transcended.

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Section: An Existential Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Hell is other people? An existential-phenomenological analysis of the local gaze in tourism

Wassler

Kirillova

2019

Tourism Management

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“…In the case of this particular lifestyle programme, that which is rendered routine may be not only the actual measuring on the scales, but also a certain mode of attending to one's body as a teenage girl. On the other hand, as noted by Wehrle (2016), such forced habituation is possible only because of the way in which bodily existence and co-existence inevitably generate habits. This is why we may ascribe a basic "sense of activity to the body" (Wehrle, 2016, p. 63).…”

Section: Normative Embodiment Dys-appearance and The Power Of Eu-apmentioning

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Teenage Girlhood and Bodily Agency: On Power, Weight, Dys-Appearance and Eu-Appearance in a Norwegian Lifestyle Programme

Groven

Zeiler

2018

Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology

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Despite the growing literature on childhood obesity and lifestyle intervention programmes focusing on weight loss, few studies have examined young persons' experiences of being identified as candidates for such programmes and of participating in them. This paper does so. Juxtaposing insights from phenomenology with an approach inspired by Foucault, the paper shows how teenage girls' bodily self-perception and bodily self-awareness are shaped in intercorporeal assemblages comprising other people and specific features or elements of the lifestyle programme. Inspired by van Manen's hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, with its point of departure in lived experience, this paper draws on interviews with Norwegian teenage girls participating in the same lifestyle programme and identifies three core thematic aspects of the girls' experiences: being identified as a candidate for a lifestyle programme and not wanting this; negotiating the lack of weight loss and the scales; and bodily situated agency-feeling good and being able. Permeating all three themes are two central, interrelated phenomena: agency and resistance. Furthermore, the paper shows how a combination of Foucauldian insights and a phenomenological understanding of intercorporeality can help to shed light on the power, affective, material and temporal dimensions of dys-appearance (i.e., when one's body appears as bad or wrong), as well as those of eu-appearance (i.e., when one's body appears as healthy or strong), and thus contribute to the understanding of the girls' narrated lived experiences. On the basis of these findings, we argue that weight-related treatment goals are not necessarily compatible with the strengthening of adolescents' body images and self-esteem. However, whilst being obliged to attend to their bodies while in the programme, the girls also encountered unexpected, positive bodily feelings and experiences. Such events, we suggest, offer a means of resisting the more troubling dys-appearing bodily situations our participants described so powerfully.

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“…Finalement, l'interaction entre les capacités physiques (et cognitives) et la structure de l'environnement joue un rôle crucial dans la détermination des affordances. Le modèle de corps considéré comme normatif est employé par plusieurs institutions comme état de base pour établir des normes de santé, de sécurité et de fonctionnement (Wehrle, 2016). Par exemple, la majorité des bâtiments sont construits en fonction des corps de personnes ayant la capacité de marcher ; la plupart des inscriptions sont conçues pour des gens qui peuvent lire avec leurs yeux ; ou encore, les sièges d'avion sont fabriqués pour des personnes d'une taille définie, pendant longtemps sans possibilité réelle de flexibilité.…”

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Les affordances culturelles : asymétries teintées de pouvoir

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Legault²,

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2020

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Les sciences cognitives et les sciences sociales n’ont pas atteint un niveau de connexion qui permet un échange paradigmatique suffisant pour développer adéquatement des modèles complexes. Grâce aux théories des affordances, les différentes disciplines peuvent trouver un point d’arrimage clément pour développer des modèles d’interactions sociales. Spécifiquement, il est possible de faire une analyse critique dans une optique féministe de la dynamique d’interaction entre des individus dans des groupes en opposition oppresseur/opprimé. Nous pouvons décliner ces interactions en termes d’asymétries d’affordances, déterminées par les niches culturelles (ou sociales), et en analyser les liens avec les injustices épistémiques

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Normative Embodiment. The Role of the Body in Foucault's Genealogy. A Phenomenological Re-Reading

Cited by 32 publications

References 11 publications

Hell is other people? An existential-phenomenological analysis of the local gaze in tourism

Hell is other people? An existential-phenomenological analysis of the local gaze in tourism

Teenage Girlhood and Bodily Agency: On Power, Weight, Dys-Appearance and Eu-Appearance in a Norwegian Lifestyle Programme

Les affordances culturelles : asymétries teintées de pouvoir

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