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Estranged bodies : shifting paradigms and the biomedical imaginary

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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

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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
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
Dates:
DateEvent
7 January 2015Available
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
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This article is from the Body & Society Special Issue 'Estranged
Bodies : Shifting Paradigms and the Biomedical Imaginary', edited by
Margrit Shildrick and Deborah Lynn Steinberg.

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)
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