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Hard Body 2.0 The Construction of the Fitness Subject: An Analysis of Swedish Fitness Blogs

Bladh, Greta (2014) GNVM03 20132
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
Through conducting a discourse analysis of Swedish fitness blogs, aided by the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault in terms of technologies of the self, and the concept of habitus as it is explained by Pierre Bourdieu, as well as a critical perspective concerning the morals of health, I’ve investigated how human beings engage and negotiate discourse and social structure through writing practices mediated through cyberspace. The results indicated that the fitness field is a field of possibilities, and that it is through agency that discourse and social structure come in to play, and thus it is through agency that different practices of appropriating fitness and health were displayed, signifying that the fitness subject is... (More)
Through conducting a discourse analysis of Swedish fitness blogs, aided by the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault in terms of technologies of the self, and the concept of habitus as it is explained by Pierre Bourdieu, as well as a critical perspective concerning the morals of health, I’ve investigated how human beings engage and negotiate discourse and social structure through writing practices mediated through cyberspace. The results indicated that the fitness field is a field of possibilities, and that it is through agency that discourse and social structure come in to play, and thus it is through agency that different practices of appropriating fitness and health were displayed, signifying that the fitness subject is heterogeneously constructed. (Less)
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author
Bladh, Greta
supervisor
organization
course
GNVM03 20132
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
discourse, health, virtual ethnography, fitness, habitus
language
English
id
4239223
date added to LUP
2014-02-07 14:18:33
date last changed
2014-02-10 09:19:30
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  abstract     = {{Through conducting a discourse analysis of Swedish fitness blogs, aided by the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault in terms of technologies of the self, and the concept of habitus as it is explained by Pierre Bourdieu, as well as a critical perspective concerning the morals of health, I’ve investigated how human beings engage and negotiate discourse and social structure through writing practices mediated through cyberspace. The results indicated that the fitness field is a field of possibilities, and that it is through agency that discourse and social structure come in to play, and thus it is through agency that different practices of appropriating fitness and health were displayed, signifying that the fitness subject is heterogeneously constructed.}},
  author       = {{Bladh, Greta}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Hard Body 2.0 The Construction of the Fitness Subject: An Analysis of Swedish Fitness Blogs}},
  year         = {{2014}},
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