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GCST4205: Health, Pleasure and Consumption
2020 unit information
Pleasure is often thought to make everyday life worthwhile, but it is also commonly positioned as the antithesis of health. In this unit we explore how key strands of cultural studies have approached this paradox with reference to specific examples: drug use, sex, consumption, leisure activities are possibilities. By considering how authorities have attempted to govern these practices, and with what effects, students will develop new associations between conceptual innovation, cultural intervention and policy impacts.
Unit details and rules
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Gender and Cultural Studies
| Code | GCST4205 |
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| Academic unit | Gender and Cultural Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate an understanding of key critical and cultural approaches to embodiment, health and consumption
- LO2. Demonstrate understanding of how key traditions in cultural studies grasp questions of bodies and bodily nature
- LO3. Develop capacities to conduct conceptually innovative, empirically engaged research
- LO4. Develop critical capacities to analyse governmental practices in relation to practices of consumption and everyday life
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