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OverviewIn this book, Touko Vaahtera explores how “bodies of latent potential,” a cultural attachment to the idea of body as potentiality, carries with it hierarchizing hopes about better bodies. Vaahtera combines disability studies, cultural studies, feminist science studies, transgender studies, post-colonial studies, and Foucauldian genealogy to offer a provocative approach that interrogates capacities and capabilities as obvious frameworks for thinking about the body. Vaahtera explores how swimming skills emerged as a specific biopolitical question in Finland, a country that has been described as the “Land of a Thousand Lakes.” Through a profound cultural analysis focusing both on Finnish cultural texts on swimming as well as manifold more globalized texts, Vaahtera considers how the legacy of eugenics and colonialism, the hopes of civilization, and homogenizing assumptions about bodies frame how we think about human capacity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Touko VaahteraPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.324kg ISBN: 9783031062735ISBN 10: 3031062736 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 03 July 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1 Introduction: Re-articulation of Able-Bodiedness 2 Bodies of Latent Potential 3 Miscellaneous Ambitions around the Fit Citizenship: Genealogy of the Ability to Swim 4 The Real Body and the Repressive Hypothesis of the Body 5 Able-Bodied Belonging: Human Beings as Part of the Animal World 6 EpilogueReviewsAuthor InformationTouko Vaahtera is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. They are the editor of Troubling Educational Cultures in the Nordic Countries (2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |