Assembling Therapeutics : Cultures, Politics and Materiality Paperback / softback
Edited by Suvi (University of Turku, Finland) Salmenniemi, Johanna (University of Turku, Finland) Nurmi, Inna (University of Turku, Finland) Perheentupa, Harley (University of Turku, Finland) Bergroth
Part of the Therapeutic Cultures series
Paperback / softback
Description
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351233392, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume examines the ways in which people engage with therapeutic practices, such as life coaching, mindfulness, complementary and alternative medicine, sex and relationship counselling, spiritual healing and self-tracking.
It investigates how human and non-human actors, systems of thought and practice are assembled and interwoven in therapeutic engagements, and traces the situated, material and political dimensions of these engagements.
By focusing on lived experiences through ethnographically informed case studies, the book elucidates the diverse forms, meanings and embodied effects of therapeutic engagements in different settings, as well as their potential for both oppressive and subversive social change.
In this way, Assembling Therapeutics contributes to our understanding of multiple modes of healing, self-knowledge and power in contemporary societies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/03/2021
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- ISBN:9780367726768
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/03/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367726768