As We Are Now: The Construction of the Self through the Body and Biopolitics in Old Age

dc.rights.license	CC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisor	Cremers, G.
dc.contributor.author	Boogaard, M.P. van den
dc.date.accessioned	2017-10-13T17:02:35Z
dc.date.available	2017-10-13T17:02:35Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/27856
dc.description.abstract	This thesis elaborates on the construction of the Self through the aging body and biopolitics among elderly individuals living in a care center. It argues that this care center is a place, symbolically and spatially excluded from society by virtue of bounded space, lack of communication and the aging body. Biopolitics comes to the fore in practices of care and materiality and organization of the institution. Biopolitics and the aging body may contribute to degrading notions of the self. Yet, elderly individuals cope by constructing an alternative reality, in which they experience safety and security and are not continuously challenged in their autonomy and their self.
dc.description.sponsorship	Utrecht University
dc.format.extent	660480
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en
dc.title	As We Are Now: The Construction of the Self through the Body and Biopolitics in Old Age
dc.type.content	Master Thesis
dc.rights.accessrights	Open Access
dc.subject.keywords	Biopolitics, The Aging Body, Self, Care, Space, Autonomy, Care Center
dc.subject.courseuu	Cultural Anthropology: Sustainable Citizenship