Toward an Anthropology of Ethics: Foucault and the Pedagogies of Autopoiesis

Faubion, James D.

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“…(Foucault, 2000b, pp. 255-256) Foucault rejects the possibility that ethics based on duty, rules, or virtues could offer ontological or metaphysical security (Faubion, 2001). Foucault suggests, instead, a sociohistorically contextualized approach offers a more robust way of analyzing how individuals within particular situations come to understand their selves as ethical subjects.…”

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Foucault, Flying Discs and Calling Fouls: Ascetic Practices of the Self in Ultimate Frisbee

Crocket

2015

Sociology of Sport Journal

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Dominant analyses of sporting subjectivities suggest the contemporary athletic subject embodies a win-at-all-costs instrumental rationality. Yet, as Carless and Douglas (2012) argue, athletes are able to find less problematic alternatives to this understanding of sport. In this article, I use Foucault’s concept of “practices of the self” to undertake a sociological analysis of ethical subjectivities within Ultimate Frisbee. I focus specifically on ascetic, or self-controlling, practices of the self through which players create relationships between their self, Ultimate’s moral code and others. I use this case study to argue that ethical subjectivities offer a productive perspective for sociology of sport.

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Foucault, Flying Discs and Calling Fouls: Ascetic Practices of the Self in Ultimate Frisbee

Crocket

2015

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“…It is this general discipline-wide assumption, I contend, that has made it difficult for those of us who have attempted an anthropological study of moralities to agree on our subject of study. Related to this is the fact that we have no theoretical or methodological foundation for a systematic approach to the study of local moralities (Faubion, 2001b;Laidlaw, 2002). Because of this, anthropologists of moralities have thus far had to borrow their theories and methods from other anthropological studies.…”

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Moral breakdown and the ethical demand

Zigon

2007

Anthropological Theory

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Recently social scientists in general and anthropologists in particular have invoked the concept of morality in their studies. The use of this concept is seen by many as a way to bypass the complexities and contradictions of such traditional social scientific concepts as culture, society and power. Nevertheless, it is becoming increasingly evident that in many of these studies morality is used in a way that may be more reminiscent of the moral understanding of the social scientist than that of their subjects. Therefore, a well-founded anthropology of moralities must break from this assumption and rethink the ways in which the moral can be explicitly studied. By engaging in a dialogue with 20th-century continental philosophies of sociality and ethics, this article articulates a theory and model by which an explicit anthropology of moralities becomes possible. Two ethnographic examples, utilizing very different methodological techniques and focusing on two very different societies, are used to illustrate the strength of this theory as a framework for a proper anthropological study of local moralities.

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“…Much time has been spent discussing our own professional ethics (Asad, 1973;Clifford and Marcus, 1986;Said, 1989;Scheper-Hughes, 1992, outlining the contours of the ethical problems that have come into being alongside recent advances in the biological sciences (Rapp, 1999;Rose, 2006), examining the problems related to translating bioethics cross-culturally (Adams, 2003(Adams, , 2004(Adams, , 2005Stonington and Ratanakul, 2006), and exploring the effects of ethical discourse in contemporary forms of governance (Rose, 1999). More recently, anthropologists have also turned towards idioms of ethics and morality 1 as resources for conceptual tools that might allow us to better describe a series of persistent problems related to the analysis of practical reason, social change, and conflicts over the valuation of incommensurable goods (Boltanski and Thevenot, 2006;Faubion, 2001;Laidlaw, 2002;Lambek, 2000;Robbins, 2004Robbins, , 2007Zigon, 2008).…”

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‘You aren’t the first and you won’t be the last’

Scherz

2010

Anthropological Theory

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During the last decades of the 20th century, notions of morality related to sexuality and family life underwent a dramatic transition in Ireland. In this paper, I explore changing attitudes towards a rapidly growing population of unmarried mothers in a small community in rural Ireland. In my analysis, I draw upon recent work on the anthropology of ethics, morality, and cultural change to analyze the ways in which individual experiences of ethical conflict and transformation relate to aggregate processes of cultural change. My analysis of one woman's account of her own moral epiphany speaks to the limits of conceptualizing ethico-moral change as a necessarily conscious or cognitive process.

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Toward an Anthropology of Ethics: Foucault and the Pedagogies of Autopoiesis

Cited by 40 publications

References 5 publications

Foucault, Flying Discs and Calling Fouls: Ascetic Practices of the Self in Ultimate Frisbee

Foucault, Flying Discs and Calling Fouls: Ascetic Practices of the Self in Ultimate Frisbee

Moral breakdown and the ethical demand

‘You aren’t the first and you won’t be the last’

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