Andrew Dickson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3967976 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Dickson |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Dickson |
| FIRMA | DICKSON A |
| AFILIACIONES | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5488-0459 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1945 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Biomassochism
The fantasy of healthy food
Healthy Food Guide (HFG) has been a hugely successful magazine, both dominating the health magazine market and becoming deeply imbedded within the public health discourse, sanctioned and legitimated through a range of State apparatuses. Central to this has been an ability to differentiate itself from ‘restrictive diet programs’ and other forms of ‘misleading’ health advice, which they claim, unlike their magazine, are ungrounded in the latest sci…
To the horror of experts’
Pro-ana online communities in which people share their experiences of eating disorders have attracted concern among scholars and health practitioners because of fears about their potential to encourage disordered eating. This article draws upon concepts from feminist psychoanalysis to ‘read beneath’ a selection of scholarly work on pro-ana communities and consider the implications of this reading for theory and practice in public health. In parti…
Anxious academics
Our New Zealand university recently required us to produce portfolios for a research evaluation process. At a presentation promoting and explaining the process, we raised questions and objections. Pointlessly, it seemed. But we continued to rail and rant about it. One of us set in motion the following discussion, presented here as a series of critical and creative autoethnographic responses. We have resisted, with some anxiety, the urge and the e…
Hysterical inquiry and autoethnography
This article questions the ethical commandments issued by research ethics committees, particularly in relation to autoethnography, and points towards an alternative based on an examination and application of the psychoanalytic ethics of hysterical inquiry. The authors demonstrate the ethics of hysterical inquiry in operation in qualitative research via a discussion of an autoethnography by Elizabeth Dauphinee and contrast this with a paper 'on' a…
Social movements, resistance and social change in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Beginning with the legitimacy crisis of the neoliberal economy and representative democracy following the 2008 financial collapse and bail out decisions, the world witnessed series of mass mobilisa
The biopolitics of Māori biomass
In this paper we consider what impact a biopolitics that creates a compliant self-governing weight-focused population has had on Māori health in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We frame this discussion with three vignettes that in different ways demonstrate the deleterious effects of the individualisation of health on Māori. We argue that the current biopolitics is best explained as ‘the health of Maoris’ not ‘Māori Health’. To counter this current biopoli…
Re
In this paper, I demonstrate how autoethnography can be utilized as a methodology to conduct public health research. My argument is structured around an application of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory which I see as supporting and extending a critical understanding of the so-called obesity epidemic and related issues. I argue that the body mass index (BMI) measure has achieved an unconscious position as a ‘Sovereign Good’ and, as such, provi…
Hysterical Blokes and the O ther's Jouissance
This paper represents an attempt to theorize the feminine writing of organization through the L acanian logic of sexuation. It also represents an attempt by a man to practise the feminine writing of organization. Using autoethnographic methods, I attempt to reformulate the ‘female’ problem of weight anxiety through the eyes of a weight anxious man and thus to provide a radical (re)thinking of gender. By linking a man's experience of weight anxiet…
The jouissance of the Lard(er)
In this paper, I use the Lacanian concept of jouissance to examine how weight-loss industry organisations trade in the desire of anxious weight-loss consumers. The weight-loss industry is rife with ‘new’ knowledge; it seems that every week a story hits the press about the newest way to ‘shed the pounds’. Just as frequently, we see stories of yo-yo dieters who constantly seek new, better ways to lose weight, but fail each time to satisfy their art…
German Book Exhibition. Autumn 1955. A Retrospect
Mass Education in Togoland
After commanding an Army unit charged with Mass Education work in East Africa during the war (this Journal for January 1945), the writer went in early 1948 to the Gold Coast as Mass Education (later Social Development) Officer. His work was delayed for various reasons, the Government considering that the troubled times did not warrant any of the usual approaches, through mass literacy, village development (Udi or Jamaica Welfare), or citizen trai…
Studies in War-time Organisation
This article is based on an extended description of a six-month tour in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland by the Mobile Propaganda Unit of East Africa Command, of which the writer is the officer in charge. Captain Dickson prefaced his original account with two extracts from the Colonial Office Report on Mass Education: “It will be vitally important that such plans should be grafted on to war-time experience, and not expect to start de novo” (para. …
Anxious academics
Our New Zealand university recently required us to produce portfolios for a research evaluation process. At a presentation promoting and explaining the process, we raised questions and objections. Pointlessly, it seemed. But we continued to rail and rant about it. One of us set in motion the following discussion, presented here as a series of critical and creative autoethnographic responses. We have resisted, with some anxiety, the urge and the e…
Hysterical Blokes and the O ther's Jouissance
This paper represents an attempt to theorize the feminine writing of organization through the L acanian logic of sexuation. It also represents an attempt by a man to practise the feminine writing of organization. Using autoethnographic methods, I attempt to reformulate the ‘female’ problem of weight anxiety through the eyes of a weight anxious man and thus to provide a radical (re)thinking of gender. By linking a man's experience of weight anxiet…
The jouissance of the Lard(er)
In this paper, I use the Lacanian concept of jouissance to examine how weight-loss industry organisations trade in the desire of anxious weight-loss consumers. The weight-loss industry is rife with ‘new’ knowledge; it seems that every week a story hits the press about the newest way to ‘shed the pounds’. Just as frequently, we see stories of yo-yo dieters who constantly seek new, better ways to lose weight, but fail each time to satisfy their art…
Biomassochism
Mass Education in Togoland
After commanding an Army unit charged with Mass Education work in East Africa during the war (this Journal for January 1945), the writer went in early 1948 to the Gold Coast as Mass Education (later Social Development) Officer. His work was delayed for various reasons, the Government considering that the troubled times did not warrant any of the usual approaches, through mass literacy, village development (Udi or Jamaica Welfare), or citizen trai…
Studies in War-time Organisation
This article is based on an extended description of a six-month tour in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland by the Mobile Propaganda Unit of East Africa Command, of which the writer is the officer in charge. Captain Dickson prefaced his original account with two extracts from the Colonial Office Report on Mass Education: “It will be vitally important that such plans should be grafted on to war-time experience, and not expect to start de novo” (para. …
Mass Education in Togoland
After commanding an Army unit charged with Mass Education work in East Africa during the war (this Journal for January 1945), the writer went in early 1948 to the Gold Coast as Mass Education (later Social Development) Officer. His work was delayed for various reasons, the Government considering that the troubled times did not warrant any of the usual approaches, through mass literacy, village development (Udi or Jamaica Welfare), or citizen trai…
German Book Exhibition. Autumn 1955. A Retrospect
The jouissance of the Lard(er)
In this paper, I use the Lacanian concept of jouissance to examine how weight-loss industry organisations trade in the desire of anxious weight-loss consumers. The weight-loss industry is rife with ‘new’ knowledge; it seems that every week a story hits the press about the newest way to ‘shed the pounds’. Just as frequently, we see stories of yo-yo dieters who constantly seek new, better ways to lose weight, but fail each time to satisfy their art…
Re
In this paper, I demonstrate how autoethnography can be utilized as a methodology to conduct public health research. My argument is structured around an application of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory which I see as supporting and extending a critical understanding of the so-called obesity epidemic and related issues. I argue that the body mass index (BMI) measure has achieved an unconscious position as a ‘Sovereign Good’ and, as such, provi…
Hysterical Blokes and the O ther's Jouissance
This paper represents an attempt to theorize the feminine writing of organization through the L acanian logic of sexuation. It also represents an attempt by a man to practise the feminine writing of organization. Using autoethnographic methods, I attempt to reformulate the ‘female’ problem of weight anxiety through the eyes of a weight anxious man and thus to provide a radical (re)thinking of gender. By linking a man's experience of weight anxiet…
The biopolitics of Māori biomass
In this paper we consider what impact a biopolitics that creates a compliant self-governing weight-focused population has had on Māori health in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We frame this discussion with three vignettes that in different ways demonstrate the deleterious effects of the individualisation of health on Māori. We argue that the current biopolitics is best explained as ‘the health of Maoris’ not ‘Māori Health’. To counter this current biopoli…
Social movements, resistance and social change in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Beginning with the legitimacy crisis of the neoliberal economy and representative democracy following the 2008 financial collapse and bail out decisions, the world witnessed series of mass mobilisa
To the horror of experts’
Pro-ana online communities in which people share their experiences of eating disorders have attracted concern among scholars and health practitioners because of fears about their potential to encourage disordered eating. This article draws upon concepts from feminist psychoanalysis to ‘read beneath’ a selection of scholarly work on pro-ana communities and consider the implications of this reading for theory and practice in public health. In parti…
Anxious academics
Our New Zealand university recently required us to produce portfolios for a research evaluation process. At a presentation promoting and explaining the process, we raised questions and objections. Pointlessly, it seemed. But we continued to rail and rant about it. One of us set in motion the following discussion, presented here as a series of critical and creative autoethnographic responses. We have resisted, with some anxiety, the urge and the e…
Hysterical inquiry and autoethnography
This article questions the ethical commandments issued by research ethics committees, particularly in relation to autoethnography, and points towards an alternative based on an examination and application of the psychoanalytic ethics of hysterical inquiry. The authors demonstrate the ethics of hysterical inquiry in operation in qualitative research via a discussion of an autoethnography by Elizabeth Dauphinee and contrast this with a paper 'on' a…
The fantasy of healthy food
Healthy Food Guide (HFG) has been a hugely successful magazine, both dominating the health magazine market and becoming deeply imbedded within the public health discourse, sanctioned and legitimated through a range of State apparatuses. Central to this has been an ability to differentiate itself from ‘restrictive diet programs’ and other forms of ‘misleading’ health advice, which they claim, unlike their magazine, are ungrounded in the latest sci…
Biomassochism
Sociology (11 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Obesity and Health Practices (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Psychoanalysis (6 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Psychoanalytic theory (5 obras)