Our current time reveals itself tendentially as a net-world that
questions and actualizes in unseen ways the modern classificatory schemes and
those traditional divisions that organized the different cultural and
socio-economical spheres of modernity: closed spaces from open ones, the real
from the virtual, public from private, the external norm form self control,
discipline from flexibility, the sphere of production from consumption, work
from leisure, masculine from feminine, lack from excess, among others.
A place where these movements and mutations make themselves ostensible
is in the disputes for defining and legitimizing certain “bodies” and
lifestyles, which worth to be noted reconfigure in a vertiginous temporality.
In this scenario we assist to the emergency and consolidation of devices
that pretend to be hegemonic and that disseminate signifiers (success,
performance, beauty, health, happiness, wellness, youth, etc.) through
different communication artifacts and through bodily practices/ forms positively
valued in the productive and cultural weaves of capitalists. And all the above
tied to a promise of social integration (and other benefits) for the biological
citizens that attach to such symbolical and material assemblies. On the other
hand, some groups emerge and organize with the intention of negotiating and
even subverting these idealized models of thinking, managing and inhabiting the
body and life itself.
Our proposal calls for the problematization of diverse
practices in which the categories of body and management articulate becoming a
set of assemblies of specific technologies oriented to the regulation and
government of conducts, according to specific parameters of economic
optimization and subjective sedimentations.
Nevertheless, it is also our interest to refer to the drifts and effects
that such machinery has on concrete subjects and groups. For that it is
necessary also to look into the practices through which subjects negotiate and
manage their bodies, their lives and their relationships, appropriating
themselves of such technologies and resignifying their uses.
In this sense it is necessary to notice that the way we conceive
management exceeds widely the specific area of the working world, articulating
in such a concept a wide spectrum of social, cultural and bodily practices.
Such a perspective allows us to understand the consolidation of a teleology of
bodily regulation that operates through the combination of practices of
subjective autonomy and heteronomy, that we identify as emblematic operations
of the contemporary subjectivation processes.
There for, the category bodily management speaks of the characteristic
dimensions of new capitalism and at the same time allows to create analytical
frames from which to inquire simultaneously specific processes of bodily and
subjective regulation, but also practices of bodily negotiation and subversion
that defy its capturing nets.
WE CALL for students,
doctoral students, professors and researchers of different disciplines
(anthropology, sociology, gender studies, cultural studies, history, theatre,
physical education, dance, etc.) to present their papers that address cultural
practices and social ideals in which the body is object and subject of diverse
managements and negotiations:
- Actualizations
in practices of bodily transformation: body piercings, tattoos, hair removal,
esthetic surgeries -including ethnic surgeries-, diets.
- The
way in which certain signifiers like health, fitness, beauty, wellness are
blended in different communication spheres as moral marks that privilege
specific lifestyles.
- The
medicalization of society and the disproportionate growth of body interventions
practiced by different corporate and profit organizations (and its effects).
- The
regulation of the body in labour practices -management- and its effects on the
life of the workers.
- The
emergent sport industry and the optimization/ management of bodies that it
makes and promotes.
- The
therapeutic cultures and the fitness and wellness cultures, and the practices
of body care and management they promote.
- The
upswing of eating dis/orders and the image of the body as an effect of these
devices.
- The
organization of groups that claim for specific bodily forms/sizes and
lifestyles (for example: fat activists, movement Pro-Ana, etc.), among others.
Since the practices we refer dialogue with processes of cultural
mundialization, we suggest in a methodological sense that the papers in their preparation
consider the historical processes through which certain bodily ideals and
practices where formed, their mutations and trajectories, and how specific
practices resist change or emerge directly like places of resistance in social
and cultural contexts where there is a coexistence of globalizing discourses
and nationalist rhetoric.
Submission guidelines
- The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, February 25, 2013.
- They should not exceed 500 words in length.
- They shall contain the problematic issues of the theme to develop.
- The font is Times New Roman, size 12, line spacing 1.5.
- Is allowed a maximum of two authors per abstract and paper.
- Abstracts should be sent to the following e-mails: castroanalucia75@gmail.com and landa.mi@gmail.com
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