Disciplinary power aimed to render soldier bodies docile and curable

Evidence

The body thus became the subject of power, not in the manner it was used as its spectacular exhibit but by being the domain on which discourses and practices of power were tried out, refined and adjusted so as to render it, the body, docile, manageable and curable. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 729

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Military commanders frame urban warfare as surgery on a diseased body — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1263