GEOG 3090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Panopticon, Femininity, Performativity
29 Oct 2017
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Overview: power & surveillance: monday: intro to the body, wednesday: power & surveillance (foucault) bender-baird (2015) peeing under surveillance bartky (2003) foucault, femininity and the modernization of patriarchal power, friday: performativity and the body (butler) Just like control, resistance can also be subtle. Bentham"s panopticon: visibility is key (a trap, self-surveillance and selfdiscipline. The (docile) body: violence does happen but , the body is controlled not by brute force anymore but by the use of discourses. [ideologies] and the mind to inscribe power in actions/bodies (foucault) Disciplinary power is constantly in operation through coercion on the body (movements and gestures) with the ultimate aim of creating docile bodies. The body itself is a site of discipline: docile bodies are: Situational docility (bender-baird, 2015: aligning with the cardinal rule of gender" (to be readable at a glance (halberstam, Underlying assumption of cisgenderism" which is the assumption that gender presentation (expression), identity and biological sex are linked: examples:
