Tag: healthism
Public defence of doctoral thesis | Healthism and professional identity: Group fitness instructors navigating health discourses | Karin Andersson, Malmö University, September 9, 2024
Karin Andersson’s mixed methods dissertation employs a survey, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions to investigate the health consciousness of Les Mills International (LMI) group fitness instructors. Using Foucauldian concepts such as discourse and bio-power, the study examines instructors’ construction of their professional identity, and the link between professional identity and healthism, a discourse that promulgates health as an individual responsibility.
