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Shildrick, Margrit and Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (2015) Estranged bodies : shifting paradigms and the biomedical imaginary. Body & Society, 21 (3). pp. 3-19. doi:10.1177/1357034X15586242 ISSN 1357-034X.
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Abstract
This introductory article provides a contextual and theoretical overview to this special issue of Body & Society. The special issue presents five selected case studies – focusing on the contexts of transplantation, psychiatry, amputation and war, and a transvalued media ecology of cancer – to offer meditations on a number of interlinked questions. The first of these is the entanglement of biomedical governance – political/economic as well as self-disciplinary – with the nexus of estrangement, which can denote both the distancing of otherness and self-division. Second is the realm of feeling, of phantasmatic projection and of the ways in which the biopolitical becomes reciprocally, discursively, enmeshed in a wider cultural imaginary. Third is the shifting terrain of gender and feminist politics, a key dimension of which is the necessary reworking of feminist thought in the wake of a radically altered biomedical and biotechnological landscape. Under the rubric of Estranged Bodies, the collection considers themes of dissolution and the fragility of the body/subject read through bodily catastrophe, radical body modification and extreme medical intervention. Also considered is the notion of assemblage – the provisional coming together of disparate parts – which encourages a rethinking of questions of reconstituted, displaced and re-placed bodies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Biopolitics, Human body, Body marking | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Body & Society | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1357-034X | ||||
Official Date: | 7 January 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 21 | ||||
Number: | 3 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 16 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 3-19 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1357034X15586242 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Description: | This article is from the Body & Society Special Issue 'Estranged |
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Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||
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