scholarly journals A EDUCAÇÃO CORPORIFICADA NO MUNDO-VIDA DA COMUNIDADE QUILOMBOLA “SÃO JOSÉ DOS PRETOS” - GUIMARÃES - MA

2021 ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
Raimundo Nonato Assunção Viana ◽  
Beleni Saléte Grando
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Studies ◽  
Life World ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
Present Text

O presente texto aborda compreensões sobre as práticas corporais no âmbito dos fazeres e saberesna comunidade quilombola de São José dos Pretos, localizada no município de Guimarães, no litoral ocidental do Maranhão. Tem sua centralidade nos estudos do corpo com bases fi losófi cas da Fenomenologia de Maurice Merleau-Ponty, realizando interlocuções com a Sociologia e Antropologia. Busca compreender as práticas corporais manifestadas nos fazeres e saberes construídos nos fenômenos vividos nessa comunidade como uma educação que se faz a partir do corpo, e o corpo que se faz a partir da educação.Infere-se sobre um corpo que se constrói mediado pela cultura e por esta produz conhecimentos, a educação a partir do corpo e o corpo a partir da educação.Palavras-chave: saberes e fazeres; comunidades quilombolas; educação do corpo. CORPORATIZED EDUCATION IN THE LIFE-WORLD OF THE QUILOMBOLA COMMUNITY “SÃO JOSÉ DOS PRETOS” - GUIMARÃES - MA Abstract The present text addresses comprehensions about body practices in the scope of the doings and knowledges in the quilombola community of São José dos Pretos located in the municipality of Guimarães, on the western côas tof Maranhão. It is centered on body studies, with philosophical bases in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology, making interlocutions with Sociology and Anthropology. It seeks to understand the body practices manifested in the actions and knowledge built in the phenomen alived in this community as na education that is made from the body, and the body that is made from education. It is inferred that thebody is built through culture and produces knowledge through it, the education from the body and the body from education. Keywords:  knowledge and actions; quilombola communities; body education. LA EDUCACIÓN ENCARNADA EM EL MUNDO-VIDA DE LA COMUNIDAD QUILOMBOLA “SÃO JOSÉ DOS PRETOS” - GUIMARÃES - MA Resumen El presente texto aborda lãs comprensiones sobre lãs prácticas corporales em El ámbito de los haceres y saberes em La comunidad quilombola de São José dos Pretos ubicada em El municipio de Guimarães, em el litoral occidental de Maranhão. Se centra em los estúdios Del cuerpo, basados em La Fenomenología filosófica de Maurice Merleau-Ponty, estableciendo conexiones com La Sociología y La Antropología. Busca mos entender lãs prácticas corporales que se manifiestan em La sacciones y conocimientos construídos en los fenómenos vividos en esta comunidad como una educación que se hace desde El cuerpo, y El cuerpo que se hace desde La educación. Se infiere sobre um cuerpo que se construye a si mismo mediado por la cultura y produce conocimiento a través de ella, la educación basada en el cuerpo y el cuerpo basada en la educación Palabras clave: saberes y haceres; comunidades quilombolas; educación corporal.

Morphological Freedom and Medicine: Constructing the Posthuman Body

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luna Dolezal
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
The Body ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Gender Reassignment ◽  
Common Parlance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
Health Function ◽  
At Will

The notion that the body can be changed at will in order to meet the desires and designs of its ‘owner’ is one that has captured the popular imagination and underpins contemporary medical practices such as cosmetic surgery and gender reassignment. In fact, describing the body as ‘malleable’ or ‘plastic’ has entered common parlance and dictates common-sense ideas of how we understand the human body in late-capitalist consumer societies in the wake of commercial biotechnologies that work to modify the body aesthetically and otherwise. If we are not satisfied with some aspect of our physicality – in terms of health, function or aesthetics – we can engage with a whole variety of self-care body practices – fashion, diet, exercise, cosmetics, medicine, surgery, laser – in order to ‘correct’, reshape or restyle the body. In addition, as technology has advanced and elective cosmetic surgery has unapologetically entered the mainstream, the notion of the malleable body has become intrinsically linked to the practices and discourses of biomedicine and, furthermore, has become a significant means to assert and affirm identity.

BODY PRACTICES OF WOMEN IN THE LIGHT OF FEMINIST DEBATES

2018 ◽  
pp. 129-156 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Phenomenological Tradition ◽  
Academic Feminism ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Body Practices

The paper provides an analysis of the structuralist and phenomenological traditions in interpretation of female body practices. The structuralist intellectual tradition bases its methodology on concepts from social anthropology and philosophy that see the body as ‘ordered’ by social institutions. Structuralist approaches within academic feminism are focused on critical study of the social regulation of female bodies with respect to reproduction and sexualisation (health and beauty practices). The author focuses on the dominant physical ideal of femininity and the means for body pedagogics that have been constructed by patriarchal authority. In contrast to theories of the ordered body, the phenomenological tradition is focused on the “lived” body, embodied experience, and the personal motivation and values attached to body practices. This tradition has been influenced by a variety of schools of thought including philosophical anthropology, phenomenology and action theories in sociology. Within academic feminism, there are at least three phenomenologically oriented strategies of interpretation of female body practices. The first one is centred around women’s individual situation and bodily socialization; the second one studies interrelation between body practices and the sense of the self; and the third one postulates the potential of body practices to destabilize the dominant ideals of femininity and thus provides a theoretical basis for feminist activism. The phenomenological tradition primarily analyses the motivational, symbolic and value-based components of body practices as they interact with women’s corporeality and sense of self. In general, both structuralist and phenomenological traditions complement each other by focusing on different levels of analysis of female embodiment.

scholarly journals Social Representations of the Body and Bodily Care Practices of Older Adults

Psico-USF ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-290
Author(s):  
Anderson da Silveira ◽  
Brigido Vizeu Camargo holds ◽  
Andreia Giacomozzi
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Biological Functionality ◽  
Body Care ◽  
Body Practices

Abstract This study analyzed the relations between social representations of the body and the body care practices of older adults. Forty older adults, with ages varying from 60 to 84 years (M = 69; SD = 7), matched by sex, took part in the study. The data were collected by means of in-depth thematic interviews, with the corpus analyzed using the IRaMuTeQ software. Differences between men and women were verified in representational contents and body practices. The male participants’ social representations of the body were associated with biological functionality and health concerns, while the women emphasized the importance of physical appearance in their social relationships. Regarding body care practices, there was a higher incidence of food concerns in the men and the performance of physical activities in the women. Therefore, the results indicated that the body care practices vary according to the socials representations of the body and the sex of the participant.

scholarly journals Política de la supervivencia / Politics of Survival

2017 ◽  
pp. 249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Giorgi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Heterogeneous Materials ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Politics Of The Body ◽  
Act Up ◽  
The One

Resumen: Distintas intervenciones desde prácticas activistas y culturales en torno al VIH escenifican poéticas y políticas del resto corporal en las que se juegan, por un lado, una reorganización de los modos en que se dramatiza en umbral entre lo vivo y lo muerto en lo público –redefiniendo así el tejido mismo de lo que llamamos “comunidad”—; y por otro, indican los modos en que estos activismos impulsan una disputa sobre los “marcos de temporalización” desde los cuales lo viviente se vuelve reconocible políticamente y donde la noción de supervivencia adquiere una centralidad decisiva. Combinando materiales heterogéneos el artículo busca iluminar los modos en que los activismos y las culturas en torno al VIH configuran un terreno decisivo para pensar políticas de la supervivencia del presente. Palabras clave: VIH, ACT-UP, Supervivencia, Temporalidades, Biopolítica. Abstract: Different interventions from activist and cultural practices around HIV staged poetics and politics of the body remmant. They implie, on the one hand, a reorganitzation of the dramatization of the threshold between the living and the dead in the public space; and on the other, they indicate the ways in which these activisms mobilize a dispute over the “frames of temporalization” from which the living becomes politically recognizable and where the notion of survival acquires a decisive centrality. Combining heterogeneous materials, the article seeks to illuminate the ways in which activism and cultures on HIV constitute a decisive ground for thinking about the present policies of survival. Keywords: IHV, ACT-UP, Survival, Biopolitics.

scholarly journals A survey of body practices and primary health care in a district of São Paulo, Brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Yara M. Carvalho ◽  
Edison de J. Manoel
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The Body ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The City ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The present study surveyed the profile of people who did or did not take part in programs and activities in primary healthcare units in the Butantã district, the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The rationale for the study was the concept of body practice understood as a practice of health and care. A semi-structured questionnaire was applied to 1090 individuals mostly middle-aged housewives. Only 5.78% of respondents were enrolled in some program and activities, mainly walking and stretching. There was a consensus between participants and non-participants on the importance of initiatives geared to care for the body and attention to health. The difficulties for having access to programs and the lack of options in the health public service were pointed out as the main obstacles for a greater involvement by local population.

The Land of the Body: Studies in Philo’s Representationof Egypt

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
Alison G. Salvesen
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Studies

The conundrum of transmitting embodied knowledge for intercultural performance: A case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Margaret Coldiron
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Intercultural Performance ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Performance Techniques ◽  
Classical Ballet ◽  
Traditional Performance ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
Regular Practice

How is ‘embodied knowledge’ transmitted? Certainly, in most Asian traditional performance practice, it is dinned into the body of the disciple through daily repetition. Unlike many western performance techniques, for example classical ballet, the discipline and transformation of the body in Asian performance forms is not managed through abstracted exercises, but rather by learning whole roles. In Bali, the student imbibes technique through regular practice until tarian masuk – literally until the dance enters the body. As a beneficiary of this pedagogical method, I know what it feels like, and as a student of anatomy and kinesiology I have some intellectual understanding of the nervous and muscular processes that make the appropriate movement happen; but how is this ‘sensuous knowledge’ transmitted? This case study examines the author’s experience of directing a group of Western-trained actors using techniques of Balinese topéng for an intercultural production of the Greek tragedy Hippolytos. It explores the physical and philosophical challenges for those who would make intercultural work, and who must find appropriate and effective methodologies for developing new body practices – often in a very short period of time.

Mestizo Corporalities: Tropical/vibrant Latin American bodies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo José Sebiane Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Proposal ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Life World ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Knowledge Ecology

The research suggests understandings about the importance of activation (of/from/in) the body with the systems (culture/communication/health) through somatic‐performative experiences; by means of which the anaesthetized body is destabilized for an awakening of states of the Mestizo Corporalities in the (re)cognition of the tropical/vibrant body. The initiative has fostered the ecology of knowledge, as well as a decolonial education in a research proposal that aims to anthropofagize these experiences in movement of the performer-researcher for an activation/reactivation of diverse points of view incorporating several principles of the somatic‐performative approach, embracing the (inter)arts as an actuator of relationships with nature-life-world, their religious-ritualistic syncretisms and the day-to-day experiences, as well as the paths-identities of the performer-person-researcher. This narrative aims to incorporate completed performances and expose how these paths affect my identity networks; it is in this flow of interactions that articulate transpositions of learning and their different contributions to systems (culture‐communication‐health) that somatic‐performative experiences renew the awakening to the mestizo vibrational body and in some way force the presence of practice research for other methodologies for a decolonial education and knowledge ecology.

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