Mads Peter Karlsen and Kaspar Villadsen, Health Promotion, Governmentality and the Challenges of Theorizing Pleasure and Desire (2016) Body and Society, 22 (3), pp. 3-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X15616465 Abstract The relationship between pleasure and asceticism has been at the core of debates on western subjectivity at least since Nietzsche. Addressing this theme, this article explores the emergence …