Bodies, Boundaries and Vulnerabilities: Interrogating Social, Cultural and Political Aspects of Embodiment

Author:   Lisa Folkmarson Käll
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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9783319224930


Pages:   174
Publication Date:   10 November 2015
Format:   Hardback
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This volume explores the interrelations between bodily boundaries and vulnerabilities. It calls attention to the vulnerability of bodies as an essential aspect of having boundaries and being bound to other bodies. The volume advances an understanding of embodiment as the central aspect of subjectivity, its identity formation and its relations to others and the world. The essence of embodiment is what connects us with others and in equal measure what distinguishes us from others. The collection also addresses the centrality of the body to political and cultural activity, targeting the role and constitution of norms in the regulation of bodies, and the construction of spaces that bodies inhabit, in constructing national and cultural identities. It raises questions of how bodies and boundaries materialize in co-constitutive relation to one another; how bodies are situated and come to embody various bodies and intersections between different categories of identity and systems of value, meaning and knowledge; how the regulation and policing of bodies and the boundaries between them come to constitute bodies as being weak, strong, vulnerable or resilient and as having more or less fixed or fluid boundaries. The chapters in the volume all demonstrate how individual human bodies are formed in relation to each other as they are regulated and distinguished from one another by larger collective bodies of nature, culture, science, nation and state, as well as by other human or non-human animal bodies.

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Author:   Lisa Folkmarson Käll
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   3.967kg
ISBN:  

9783319224930


ISBN 10:   331922493
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   10 November 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Lisa Folkmarson Käll: Vulnerable Bodies and Embodied Boundaries.- Lihua Wang with Linda M. Blum: Rural Women’s Bodies and Invisible Hands: Neoliberalism and Population Control in China.- Jenny Björklund: Arrogant Perceptors, World-Travellers, and World-Backpackers: Rethinking María Lugones’ Theoretical Framework through Lukas Moodysson’s Mammoth.- May-Britt Öhman: Embodied Vulnerability in Large Scale Technical Systems – Vulnerable Dam Bodies, Water Bodies and Human Bodies.- Jacob Bull: Toxic Skin and Animal Mops: Ticks and Humanimal Vulnerabilities.- Linda M. Blum with Estye R. Fenton: Mothering With Neuroscience in a Neoliberal Age: Child Disorders and Embodied Brains.- Fredrik Palm: Sexual Arousal, Danger and Vulnerability.- Anne Fleche: The Author’s Body: Almodóvar, auteur, and the Film Object.- Lisa Folkmarson Käll: Performativity and Expression: The Case of David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly.

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