Exoskeletal Devices and the Body: Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction: From science fictions to science facts
	Exoskeletal devices and their societal challenges
	What exoskeletons are and what they are not
	Looking at corporeal deviance through corporeal extension: exoskeletons and their contexts
	Sociological worlds of movement
	Why phenomenology still matters: its contemporary relevance for a sociological research on exoskeletons
	Demystifying technology: Exoskeletons and enhancement?
	Synopsis of the Book
	Notes
	References
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Part I Technological objects facing embodied subjects
	Chapter 2 Among bodies, exoskeletons and sites
		The “Hows” and “Whats” of fieldworking with exoskeletons and their bodies
		Technological objects and their mono-usage
		Phenomenology as methodology: Empathy and sympathy
		Needing a “proper body” when doing research on bodies and embodiment: Re-conceptualizing methodological situationism
		Notes
		References
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	Chapter 3 Where exoskeletons aim to enter: Realms of human bodies
		Novel corporeal extensions and materialities: Bodies as media
		Exceptional bodies
		Phenomenology again? Living bodies and their multiple realities
		Notes
		References
Part II Exoskeletons and their corporeal worlds
	Chapter 4 Impaired bodies
		Motility impairments as a source of corporeal alterity: The case of SCI and CVA
			Objectifying one’s “own body”: The “body present”
			Discovering an “other” in the self: New corporeal potentialities
			Recovering the other in the self
		Exoskeletons as ability markers for impaired bodies
			Understanding what “I still can”: Residual subjectivities
			The production of new corporeal habits: Body work
			Bodies defying technologies: Subjectivity and selfhood
			Mapping the body: Facing the quantified self?
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5 Able bodies
		Introduction
		Corporeal assistance: Bodies at work
			The “tooled” body: Limits and possibilities of exoskeletons in work environments
			Creating embodiments: Some issues on technological skepticism
			Resisting embodiments: No “second” skin
			Questioning augmentation, claiming assistance: Technologies for future bodies at work
		Corporeal assistance: Bodies at fight
			Partial extensions: Entering the “snail’s house”
			Soldierly phenomenologies of corporeal vulnerability: Embodiment variations
			The factual body: Deconstructing Iron Man, reassessing augmentation
		Notes
		References
Part III What exoskeletons do to the body: Advancing corporealities
	Chapter 6 New body shapes
		Challenging body images: Fictions facing facts
		Body knowledge(s): Exoskeletons as experimental environments for bodies
		Redistributing performance while building new bodies
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7 Reinvesting corporeal capabilities: “Deviance” and “extension” redefined
		Recontextualizing corporeal forms of “I can”
		Questioning bodily techniques and movement technologies
		Deviant bodies, their abilities and inabilities: Shifting corporeal norms
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8 Epilogue: Producing bodies while extending them
		Revisiting corporeal deviance
		Bodies (still) hardly “dancing” with machines: Corporeal “surprises”
		Creating “above-average ability” or repairing it?
		Notes
		References
Index