The Body: The Key Concepts

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Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with brand new chapters on affective bodies, indeterminate bodies, assemblaged bodies and a new conclusion, and featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up-to-date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates around the body in contemporary culture. Lisa Blackman outlines and illuminates those debates which have made the body central to current interdisciplinary thinking across the arts, humanities and sciences. Since body studies hit the mainstream, it has grown in new regions, including China, and moved in new directions to question what counts as a body and what it means to have and be a body in different contexts, milieu and settings. Lisa Blackman guides the reader through socio-cultural questions around representation, performance, class, race, gender, disability and sexuality to examine how current thinking about the body has developed and been transformed. Blackman engages with classic anthropological scholarship from Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock, revisits black feminist writings from the 1980s, as well as engaging with recent debates, thought and theorists who are inventing new concepts, methods and ways of apprehending embodiment which challenge binary and dualistic categories. It provides an overview of the proliferation of body studies into other disciplines, including media and cultural studies, philosophy, gender studies and anthropology, as well as mapping the future of body studies at the intersections of body and affect studies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction: Thinking through the body Beyond binaries Anthropology of the body The problem of dualism The problem of the body as substance The body as an ‘absent present’ The transdisciplinarity of ‘body studies’ Horse–human relations The affective body Chapter 1: Bodily Matters Chapter 2: Affective bodies Chapter 3: Bodies and difference Chapter 4: Lived bodies Chapter 5: Bodily assemblages Conclusion: Indeterminate bodies 1. Bodily matters Introduction The sociological and anthropological body The naturalistic body The materialist body The socially constructed body Fear, fetish and phobia The micro and the macro The disciplined body Agency and the body The somatically felt body Uses of anger Naturally queer Conclusion 2. Affective bodies Introduction Affect studies Social influence Becoming (horse–human) The feeling body Emotional labour Racialization and emotional labour Public Feeling Emotional contagion Self-containment and othering Affective transmission The vitalist body The networked body Transcorporeality Racism as a technology of affect Conclusion 3. Bodies and difference Introduction Bodily markers of respectability Corporeal capital Feelings and bodily dispositions Bodily affectivity Body image to body without an image Fabulousness and werking ‘the look’ Throwing like a girl Beyond the binary (sex and gender) Corporeal feminism Gender performativity Becoming or unpredictable potential(s) Able-ism and non-normative morphologies New materialism Conclusion 4. Lived bodies Introduction Sensory bodies Touch Skin knowledge Digital skins Taste The mouth The mouth and taste Abjection Abjection and racism Smell The articulated body Health, illness and bodily matters Migrant bodies Self-health Cancer cultures Narratives and bodily matters Morphological imagination: Cripping and queering theories Living with autoimmunity, or shit happens Conclusion 5. Bodily assemblages Introduction Process The body-in-movement Bodies without organs Mixed natures Racializing assemblages New materialist assemblages Sociality and historicity of indeterminacy Queer assemblages Actor network theory Doing hypoglycaemia The body multiple Companion species and multispecies ethnographies Conclusion: Enacted materialities Conclusion: Indeterminate bodies Introduction: Imagining the future of body studies within the academy 1 Affective bodies 2 Immaterial bodies 3 Biomediation and necropolitics 4 Indeterminate bodies Conclusion Questions for essays and classroom discussion Introduction 1 Bodily matters 2 Affective bodies 3 Bodies and difference 4 Lived bodies 5 Bodily assemblages 6 Imaging the future of the body within the academy Annotated guide for further reading Bibliography Index