CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Sulamanidze, Medea |
|---|---|
| Title | Embodied Subjects, Self-ed Bodies: Exploring Emotionality of Eating Disorders in Georgia |
| Summary | The thesis explores the complex emotionality of eating disorders among Georgian women. While studied extensively across the countries and disciplines, eating disorders have never been studied in Georgia before. In the absence of public awareness and institutionalized practices, the study explores the cultural and social situatedness of eating disorders in the dynamic and changing environments where they remain undocumented and underdiagnosed. Drawing on in-depth interviews and self-descriptive biographical accounts, the study focuses on the less explored aspects of subjective experience of eating disorders. Relying on the theoretical and methodological framework of phenomenological anthropology, the paper argues that eating disorders are existential projects of selfhood, grounded in emotionality and epistemologies of socially and culturally informed body. By analyzing both first-person experience and contexts in which these experiences are shaped, the research concludes that eating disorders can be read as emotional practices through which the dialectics and frictions between social structures, cultural schemes, and embodied self are felt, registered, and expressed, while the women struggle to attain certain embodied subjectivity that reconciles their conflicted, ambiguous experiences. |
| Supervisor | Naumescu, Vlad; Monterescu, Daniel |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/sulamanidze_medea.pdf |
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