Exoskeletal Devices and the Body: Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies

Author:   Denisa Butnaru (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032503769


Pages:   242
Publication Date:   21 July 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Denisa Butnaru (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9781032503769


ISBN 10:   1032503769
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   21 July 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"1. Introduction: From science fictions to science facts Part I. Technological objects facing embodied subjects 2. Among bodies, exoskeletons and sites 3. Where exoskeletons aim to enter: Realms of human bodies Part II. Exoskeletons and their corporeal worlds 4. Impaired bodies 5. Able bodies Part III. What exoskeletons do to the body: Advancing corporealities 6. New body shapes 7. Reinvesting corporeal capabilities: ""Deviance"" and ""extension"" redefined 8. Epilogue: Producing bodies while extending them"

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Denisa Butnaru is Deputy Professor of General and Cultural Sociology in the Department of History, Sociology, Empirical Educational Research and Sport Science, University of Konstanz, Germany. Her areas of research are socioanthropology of the body and technology, contemporary developments in phenomenology of the body, and qualitative methodology in the social sciences.

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