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The Biopolitics of Lifestyle - Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices (Hardcover)
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The Biopolitics of Lifestyle - Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices (Hardcover)
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A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and
international level has led to a proliferation of medical and
non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and
populations. This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle
to govern individual choice and secure population health from the
threat of obesity. The characterization of obesity as a threat to
society caused by the cumulative effect of individual lifestyles
has led to the politicization of daily choices, habits and
practices as potential threats. This book critically examines these
unquestioned assumptions about obesity and lifestyle, and their
relation to wider debates surrounding neoliberal governmentality,
biopolitical regulation of populations, discipline of bodies, and
the possibility of community resistance. The rationale for this
book follows Michel Foucault's approach of problematization,
addressing the way lifestyle is problematized as a biopolitical
domain in neoliberal societies. Mayes argues that in response to
the threat of obesity, lifestyle has emerged as a network of
disparate knowledges, relations and practices through which
individuals are governed toward the security of the population's
health. Although a central focus is government health campaigns,
this volume demonstrates that the network of lifestyle emanates
from a variety of overlapping domains and disciplines, including
public health, clinical medicine, media, entertainment, school
programs, advertising, sociology and ethics. This book offers a
timely critique of the continued interventions into the lives of
individuals and communities by government agencies, private
industries, medical and non-medical experts in the name of health
and population security and will be of interests to students and
scholars of critical international relations theory, health and
bioethics and governmentality studies.
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