Assembling Therapeutics (eBook, PDF)

Cultures, Politics and Materiality
Redaktion: Salmenniemi, Suvi; Bergroth, Harley; Perheentupa, Inna; Nurmi, Johanna

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the ways in which people engage with therapeutic practices, such as life coaching, mindfulness, complementary and alternative medicine, sex and relationship counselling, spiritual healing and self-tracking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351233385
• Artikelnr.: 57472048

Autorenporträt

Suvi Salmenniemi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Johanna Nurmi is a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Inna Perheentupa is currently finalising her doctoral dissertation in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Harley Bergroth is currently finalising his doctoral dissertation in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From Culture to Assemblages: An Introduction
2. Assembling Mindful Bodies: Mindfulness as a Universal 'Laboratory of
Practice'
3. Affective Assemblages: Atmospheres and Therapeutic Knowledge Production
in/through the Researcher-body
4. Therapeutic and Therapeia within Orthodox Christianity
5. Saving the Post-Soviet Soul: Religion as Therapy in the Narratives of
Russian-speaking Migrant Women
6. Coaching for the Nation: A New 'Moral and Ethical Assemblage' for
Israel's Last Republican Generation
7. The Datafication of Therapeutic Life Management: Assembling the Self in
Control Society
8. The Lure of Self-disclosure: App-assisted Quantification of Mood as
Therapeutic Companionship
9. No Negative Vibes: Organisational Fun as a Practice of Social Control
10. 'Living on a Razor Blade': Work and Alienation in the Narratives of
Therapeutic Engagements
11. Feminists Performing the Collective Trauma in Contemporary Russia
12. Uncanny Experiences as Therapeutic Events
Afterword: Life of Psy