Abstract
Adult educators are increasingly concerned with issues of power and identity. Drawing on my research text, The Body’s Tale, and Foucault’s writings, I explore how pastoral power effects construct subjectivities. Using three genealogical narratives—of eating, elimination and swarming—I show how we can interrupt self-regulation, and through self-writing, develop an embodied ethical practice.
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Recommended Citation
Chapman, V.
(2002).
“Knowing One’s Self”: Selfwriting, Power and Ethical Practice.
Adult Education Research Conference.
https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2002/papers/13
“Knowing One’s Self”: Selfwriting, Power and Ethical Practice
Adult educators are increasingly concerned with issues of power and identity. Drawing on my research text, The Body’s Tale, and Foucault’s writings, I explore how pastoral power effects construct subjectivities. Using three genealogical narratives—of eating, elimination and swarming—I show how we can interrupt self-regulation, and through self-writing, develop an embodied ethical practice.
