The Body: The Key Concepts

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