Alexander Butchart: The Anatomy of Power

Cover: 9781856495400 | The Anatomy of Power | European Constructions of the African Body

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Beschreibung

'It is difficult to identify a single example of a colonial or post-colonial society in which the public health official, the primary health care nurse, the hospital doctor, the psychiatrist, and many other representatives of the socio-medical sciences are not present. It is equally impossible to identify any setting where the population has no knowledge of how to act and react in the ritual of the medical examination by doctor, inspection by the aid worker, interrogation by the anthropologist, or enumeration by the census officer,' writes Alex Butchart.

Using Foucault's thinking on the relationship between power and knowledge, the author of this extraordinary book analyzes the ways in which the body of 'The African' has itself been analyzed in western thought from the Renaissance to the present. The book not only provides a critical edge to debates around colonialism and African identity, it is also an invaluable new reservoir of source materials for scholars with a passion for knowing the body politic and its anatomy of power.

Über den Autor

Alexander Butchart is coordinator of the Prevention of Violence Team (PVL) at the World Health Organisation.

Zusammenfassung

An exploration of the way the African body has been analyzed in western thought from the Renaissance to the present. Using Foucaultian theory, this work examines European constructions of the African body and shows how, in the service of white power, these have been perverse.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
1. The African body in history and histories of the African body.
2. Power, knowledge and the body.
3. Renaissance body myths and the spectacle of strangeness.
4. A body without volume: the African as target of sovereignty and object of taxonomy.
5. Missionary medicine, moral sanitation and fabrication of the heathen heart.
6. The industrial panopticon: mining and the medical construction of migrant African labour.
7. Discipline and danger: psychological science and the African personality.
8. Filth, food and freedom: public health and its changing African objects.
9. Birth of the Bantu Clinic.
10 . Postscript: on the anatomy of power.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1998
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781856495400
ISBN-10:	185649540X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Butchart, Alexander Butchart
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Alexander Butchart (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.05.1998
Gewicht:	0,36 kg