通过同情控制:监督的合法化,权力的动态,以及芬兰改造电视节目中专家的角色,Jutta和超级饮食和Jutta和半年超级饮食

IF 0.9 Q3 WOMENS STUDIES
S. Ritter
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对性别脂肪体的纪律实践是减肥改造电视节目的核心方面;然而,它们很微妙,很难识别。我想知道,在芬兰的《尤塔和超级饮食》和《尤塔和半年超级饮食》两大美容秀中,监视和控制是如何被合法化为实现身体变化的适当方法的,以及专家们是如何强化不平等的权力结构的。芬兰的平等精神非常强烈,这也体现在专家作为“团队中的一员”的特殊建构上。研究材料是根据米歇尔·福柯的权力理论和温顺的身体概念进行检查的,并作为后女权主义媒体文化的一部分,其中“选择自由”和“服从作为授权”的思想至关重要。然而,这些节目的参与者的选择是非常有限的,只留下足够的自由,让他们接受他们所纠缠的权力动态。我认为控制和监视作为帮助参与者实现理想身体和生活的手段是合法的。而不是打破现有的权力动态,专家的细心和关怀的建设加强了这些结构,因为纪律是为了参与者的“最佳利益”而制定的。因此,(纪律)权力的动态是微妙的,以一种特别隐蔽的方式起作用。
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Control through Compassion: Legitimizations of Surveillance, Dynamics of Power, and the Role of the Expert in the Finnish Makeover TV Shows Jutta and the Super Diet and Jutta and the Half-Year Super Diet
ABSTRACT Disciplinary practices on the gendered fat body are a central aspect of weight-loss makeover TV shows; however, they are subtle and hard to identify. I ask how surveillance and control are legitimized as appropriate methods for achieving bodily change in the Finnish makeover shows Jutta ja Superdieetit (Jutta and the Super Diet) and Jutta ja Puolen Vuoden Superdieetit (Jutta and the Half-Year Super Diet) and how the experts reinforce unequal power structures. The ethos of equality is very strong in Finland, which is also apparent in the special construction of the expert as “one of the team”. The research material is examined in light of Michel Foucault’s theories of power and the concept of docile bodies, and as part of postfeminist media culture in which the ideas of “freedom of choice” and “submission as empowerment” are crucial. The choices for the participants of the makeover shows are, however, very limited, leaving just enough freedom so that they accept the power dynamics they are entangled in. I argue that control and surveillance are legitimized as means of helping participants achieve their ideal body and life. Instead of breaking existing power dynamics, the construction of the expert as attentive and caring works to reinforce these structures since discipline is enacted in the “best interest” of the participant. The dynamics of (disciplinary) power are thus subtle and work in a particularly hidden way.
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