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Berghahn Books Exploring Regimes of Discipline The Dynamics of Restraint 2008 Edition by Noel Dyck
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 :- AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Anthropological Perspectives on Discipline: An Introduction to the IssuesNoel DyckChapter 2. The Legacy of Vieskeri: Performativity and Discipline in Amateur Trotting Racing in FinlandSusanne AdahlChapter 3. Targeting Immigrant Children: Disciplinary Rationales in Danish Pre-schoolsHelle Bundgaard and Eva GullovChapter 4. The Discipline of Being Hospital Porters: Transcending Hierarchy and InstitutionNigel RapportChapter 5. Governance as a Regime of DisciplineSusan WrightChapter 6. Creatively Sculpting the Self through the Discipline of Martial Arts TrainingTamara KohnChapter 7. The Fertile Body and Cross-Fertilization of Disciplinary Regimes: Technologies of the Self in a Polish Catholic Youth MovementEsther PeperkampChapter 8. The Practice of Discipline and the Discipline of PracticePeter CollinsNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex