Reconstruction of the face with botox and filler injections
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2023
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Ankara Üniversitesi
Abstract
This article deals with the women’s narratives of “natural” and
“unnatural” appearance and the possible meanings in which these
narratives indicate regarding the use of botox and filler technologies and
applications, which are among the today’s “youth” work interventions.
This study, which was based on a field research and the participant
observation technique, was carried out at the X Aesthetic Center in
Ankara/Turkey between the years of 2021-2022. The data were obtained
from in-depth interviews with the doctor who performed the botox and
filler procedure and from the female participants in different range of
ages who have these applications. In this study, which is based on the
meanings attributed by the participants to the “natural” and “unnatural”
appearance, and which takes the concept of “natural” as problematic, the
discourse of “naturalness” is discussed in connection with the literature
on nature, culture, body and technology. In the light of these discussions,
we will focus on where and how we should position the bodily regimes
of the participants involved in botox and filler procedures, and on the
boundaries between the “natural” and “unnatural” body which will be
tried to be blurred. In oder to do so, it will be argued that Donna J.
Haraway’s cyborg figure, i.e. “machine-organism hybrids”, can be adapted
to the field of botox and filler applications.
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Botox and filler injections, “natural appearance”, “natural/ unnatural” body, cyborg figure, technology