Description
Book Synopsis 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 rearing, together the essays in this volume explore and offer new ways of thinking about discipline in everyday life.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Anthropological Perspectives on Discipline: An Introduction to the Issues
Noel Dyck
Chapter 2. The Legacy of Vieskeri: Performativity and Discipline in Amateur Trotting Racing in Finland
Susanne Ådahl
Chapter 3. Targeting Immigrant Children: Disciplinary Rationales in Danish Pre-schools
Helle Bundgaard and Eva Gulløv
Chapter 4. The Discipline of Being Hospital Porters: Transcending Hierarchy and Institution
Nigel Rapport
Chapter 5. Governance as a Regime of Discipline
Susan Wright
Chapter 6. Creatively Sculpting the Self through the Discipline of Martial Arts Training
Tamara Kohn
Chapter 7. The Fertile Body and Cross-Fertilization of Disciplinary Regimes: Technologies of the Self in a Polish Catholic Youth Movement
Esther Peperkamp
Chapter 8. The Practice of Discipline and the Discipline of Practice
Peter Collins
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
