Indonesia’s Next Top Model: The Reproduction of Docile Bodies

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10.2991/978-2-38476-140-1_3How to use a DOI?

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docile bodies; body politic; fashion; Foucault; technologies of bodies; Indonesia’s Next Top Models

Abstract

This research is aimed to investigate the reproduction of docile bodies in Indonesia’s Next Top Model (INTM) and it uses content analysis methods to reveal the practice of body politic particularly in fashion models. The data are collected by investigating Indonesia’s Next Top Model cycle 3 in 2022. The data are analyzed using Foucault’s theory of discipline and punishment which inscribes the concept of docile bodies. The result shows that INTM reveals the modern practice of body politic. Through the enactment of technologies of the bodies, subjugation is practiced in some programs under the notion of discipline and punishment. Indeed, the ideal body as required by fashion’s modelling determines the power relation in the fashion industry. Therefore, the process of being the best model as required by industry subjugated the body not only physically but also mentally. Body is subjugated through the physical activities on the runway and photo shot challenges. Further, panopticon, through the eye of the camera, becomes modern tool for disciplining the body. All practices are potentially aimed at the commodification of the bodies. At last, the gender issues aimed at shaping the glocal mindset to fit the global mindset of the desired body that hegemonizes women’s ideal body which contributes to the local mindset of establishing the domestication of women as well. It is the hidden agenda for the sake of male visual pleasure.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lynda Susana Widya Ayu Fatmawaty
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/07
TI  - Indonesia’s Next Top Model: The Reproduction of Docile Bodies
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language, Linguistics, and Literature (COLALITE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 18
EP  - 25
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-140-1_3
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