Browsing by Subject "Care"

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Formation and care of self : foucauldian analysis
(University of North Bengal, 31-03-2020) Goswami, Gargi
Foucault’s major work revolves around formation of self with regard to the relationship between three major forces: power, truth and subjectivity. Each of this has a unique relationship with the other, and the three forces in tandem have a major impact in the formation of the individual being. For Foucault, one must be aware of oneself and one’s surroundings, and also must have the freedom to question it. This freedom manifests and perpetuates itself through the ancient practice called care of the self. Foucault often turns to the ancient Greeks in his work and analyses the individual in relation to this power dynamics. Care of the self-constitutes a lifelong work on one’s body, mind and soul in order to better relate to people. This paper explores the aspect of care of self along with the constituents.
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Growing up in Unfreedom: A Reflection on the Childhood Memories of Urban Middle-Class Women
(University of North Bengal, 2025) Roy, Sinjini
Unfreedom, cruelty, domination, and violence exist in disguise as ‘normal’ in our everyday life in social relations, in the process of growing up of children of all classes; their nature of manifestation and reasons, however, vary depending on economic, social and cultural conditions of the population. The middle class in India is located in a context which is fundamentally different from the context of the other classes, the poor and the rich. The Indian middle class now is educated, enjoys a degree of material affluence, lives in small and nuclear families, and is ambitious yet ridden with uncertainties and risks embedded in the neo-liberal social-economic order. The middle-class children in India thus grow up under the close care of their informed and conscious parents who operate in a narrow terrain of traditional normative patterns and the pressure of competition for career opportunities in the market economy. While bringing up their children, the parents consciously or unconsciously enforce their will in their children with authoritarian vigour in the name of care and support in making a successful career for them, without engaging their children in free dialogue. Growing up in such a conditioned terrain, the children, when they learn to live with agencies, realise that they lived a life of unfreedom.