Practices and Representations of the Body
Code
722001037
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Fernando Cascais, Maria Augusta Babo
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
By the end of the course, students are expected to:
a) understand the specificity of reflection on corporeality and its capture by modern technical devices and on the configuration of the subject applied in the realm of women´s studies and gender;
b) have acquired the ability to apply their knowledge about corporeality, its technological capture and resubjectivation processes to solving problems in unfamiliar situations, in expanded multidisciplinary contexts;
c) have acquired the ability to integrate knowledge, deal with complex issues, design solutions and utter critical judgements in situations of limited information regarding corporeality, its technological capture and to the subject reconfiguration;
d) have acquired the ability to communicate their conclusions and the reasonings underlying them both to experts and non-experts in a clear and unambiguous manner;
e) have acquired lifelong learning skills in a self-driven and autonomous manner.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Corporeality and subject devices configuration
1.1 The body in contemporary society
1.2 The body as a place of affection
1.3 Body and technic
2.1 The body and the civilizing process: from Sigmund Freud to Norbert Elias
2.2 The capture of the body by the device: Michel Foucault
2.3 Biopolitics: from Michel Foucault to Giorgio Agamben
Bibliography
Teaching method
Seminar. The teaching methodologies consist of theoretical lecture of the syllabus contents by means of oral and powerpint presentation (50%), and in the presentation, analysis and discussion of case studies and practical examples with audiovisual and digital support (25%) and the analysis and discussion of student´s research projects (25%).
Evaluation method
The oral presentation and discussion, in class, of the research project (25%), and the research project´s final written essay (75%) will be the object of evaluation.