Reframing (Dis)Ordered Bodies: Understanding <em>Agonias</em> via the <em>Habitus</em>

Authors

  • Lisa Vieira Dias University of Toronto

Abstract

The expression of agonias among Portuguese populations is an embodied experience of emotions and/or illness that defies Western medical categorization. Within Portuguese communities agonias has multiple meanings. This paper proposes that the embodiment of agonias can be understood via the habitus where the body is a meaning (re)producing social agent. Résumé Au sein des populations portugaises, l'expression agonias incarne une gamme d'émotions et/ou la maladie qui défie toute catégorisation du monde médical occidental. Au cœur des communautés portugaises, agonias a plusieurs sens. Cet essai suggère que l'incarnation de agonias peut être comprise par l'entremise de l'habitus, tandis que le corps représente un agent social de (re)production.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

Author Biography

Lisa Vieira Dias, University of Toronto

Lisa Vieira Dias is pursuing her PhD in Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto with a focus in social science health research. Her research interests include women’s health, sexual and reproductive health, health promotion, theories of governmentality and risk, social theories of practice, and critical discourse analysis.

Downloads

Published

2012-05-17

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 2 (2012): "Disorderly Conduct" / Women's Studies and Pedagogy

Section

Original Research

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

2. Authors are aware that articles published in Atlantis are indexed and made available through various scholarly and professional search tools, including but not limited to Erudit.

3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to preprint their work, that is, post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process. This can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work. Read more on preprints here.