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Living it on the skin:.

Authors :
Mol, Noelle J.
Source :
American Ethnologist; May2008, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p189-210, 22p, 2 Charts
Publication Year :
2008

Abstract

In this article, I examine the codification of an Italian work-related illness caused by mobbing, a type of psychological harassment that emerged at the moment neoliberal policies transformed Italy's historically protectionist labor market. I trace how the medicalization of mobbing has expanded workers’ access to compensation, resources, and discursive tools for criticizing neoliberal labor conditions, even as it has produced new structures of surveillance. I unravel the neoliberal politics of a state that protects workers’ health yet governs worker–citizens through an apparatus of medical experts. I find that workers’ labor problems are experienced and managed as bodily problems in ways important to remaking Italian citizenship. [ neoliberalism, state, labor, biopolitics, citizenship, bodies, Italy] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00940496
Volume :
35
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
American Ethnologist
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
32549267
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00030.x