Jetzt in Open Access verfügbar: 49.3 - Debating Self-Optimisation

24.03.2025
Kategorien: HSR-News

Special Issue – Debating Self-Optimisation: Practices, Paradoxes, and Power. (Daniel Nehring, Anja Röcke, and Suvi Salmenniemi)

Anja Röcke, Daniel Nehring & Suvi Salmenniemi: Dynamics of Self-Optimisation: An Introduction.

Contributions

I) Practices of Self-Optimisation: Forms and Contradictions

Edgar Cabanas: CrossFit and Self-Optimization in CrossFit’s Popular Literature.
Nicole Zillien: Self-Tracking as a Dietetic Practice.
Agnieszka Krzeminska: Self-Optimisation and the Technologically Mediated Self: Balancing Self-Care and Self-Control.
Tristan Fournier & Sébastien Dalgalarrondo: From Self-Optimization to Minimalism and Back. The Promises and Practices of Fasting in France.

II) Self-Optimisation and “Therapeutic Culture”

Sam Binkley: Opening Up and Going In: Metaphors of Interiority and the Case of Humanistic Psychology.
Senta Brandt & Jürgen Straub: A Critique of Guided Self-Optimisation: Mental Health, Success, Happiness, and Virtue in Missionary Positive Psychology and Psychotherapy.

III) Self-Optimisation, Power, and Politics

Deborah Lupton & Clare Southerton: #ActuallyAutistic: Competing Cultures of Expertise and Knowledge in Relation to Autism and ADHD Self-Diagnosis on TikTok.
Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa, Ramona Franz, Diana Lindner, Benedikt Salfeld, Micha Schlichting, Julia Schreiber & Maike Stenger: Self-Optimization via Figures and Digital Parameters – Psychic Repercussions of Digital Measurement and Comparison.
Amir Hampel: Practical Daydreams: Self-Optimization through Consumer Lifestyles in China.
Daniel Nehring, Talia Esnard & Dylan Kerrigan: Re-Thinking Self-Optimisation: Power, Self, and Community in the Global South.

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