Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other
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DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2021.1958553
Abstract: abstract Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics and patriarchal subjectivity.… read more here.
Keywords: obstetric violence; rite passage; passage; obstetric subject ... See more keywords
Schooling as a rational rite of passage
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DOI: 10.1177/1478210317721312
Abstract: Starting from Illich’s identification of the compulsory schooling process with the rational initiation rite to the modern, free-market, society, the paper aims to detach the philosophical premises this expensive and unequal ritual is grounded in.… read more here.
Keywords: schooling rational; rite passage; rational rite; genealogy ... See more keywords
Being and Becoming a Monk on Mount Athos: An Ontological Approach to Relational Monastic Personhood in the “Garden of the Virgin Mary” as a Rite of Passage
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DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0008
Abstract: Abstract This paper brings together ethnography as practice research, and theology as experiential theory, towards an ontological interdisciplinary understanding of relational personhood on Mount Athos. The first part of the paper consists of ethnographic data… read more here.
Keywords: rite passage; mount athos; personhood; monk ... See more keywords