#12305. Unruly bodies: resistance, (in)action and hysteresis in a public health intervention

August 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Our case study is an intervention focused on the future health of children’s bodies (‘The Daily Mile’), which, we argue, also resulted in the surveillance of educators’ bodies. We draw on Bourdieu’s concept of hysteresis to explore how those bodies can become ‘unruly’. Hysteresis proved a useful concept for exploring embodiment at a point when there were mismatches between habitus and the changing field of primary education. We show how the non-participation of some actors (e.g. teachers) was positioned as part of a broader resistance to health as a dominant value, whereas non-participation of less-privileged social actors (e.g. Teaching Assistants) was problematised in different ways. We argue that attending to moments of hysteresis, in which the changing symbolic values of physical capital become explicit, surfaces how dominant discourses (e.g. healthism) become reproduced in fields, how they change, and with what effects.
Keywords:
Bourdieu; Education; Field; Habitus; Hysteresis; Public health

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