Chair: Prof. Gisela Cánepa-Koch (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru)
The development of consumer societies has popularized a series of “knowledges” and practices related to knowing and caring for the body (e.g., physical disciplines, self-help techniques, aromatherapy, cosmetics, cosmetic surgery, massages, shamanic tourism), which in turn are “packaged” in a series of products that constitute the nucleus of key branches of various industries (pharmaceutics, publishing, tourism, communications, and education).
The goal of this work group is to approach these “knowledges” and practices as technologies of the self (M. Foucault), aiming to: 1) discuss their constitutive power over contemporary subjectivities, and 2) examine the type of subjectivities that such technologies design in specific local and national contexts.