Full Description
Body/State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has different empirical and/or theoretical focus, authors consider a number of overlapping themes to appreciate the state's engagement with, and concern about, bodies. Divided into five parts, the first part, 'Bodies Modified and Divided' considers how the production, regulation, policing and maintenance of borders (physical, social, sexual, political, religious, etc.) are used to enable or constrain the physical (re)shaping of the body. Part two, 'Capital Bodies', extends the state's concern with the flows of bodies that make up the nation to consider how they are enrolled in the complex structures of capitalist exchange that form the basis for maintaining and contesting a set of relationships between states and markets. Part three, 'Deviance and Resistance', examines both how states seek to discipline 'non-normal' bodies and appreciates the capacity of changes in the socio-cultural meaning and nature of bodies to resist and/or escape states. Part four, 'Sovereignty and Surveillance', develops themes of deviancy and resistance by considering the impact of new technologies both on the intimate regulatory reach of states into and across bodies and on the nature of embodiment itself. Finally, Part five, 'The Body Virtual', examines the impact of new technologies and online spaces both on the intimate regulatory reach of states into and across bodies and on the nature of embodiment itself. A varied collection of essays that address important and complex topics in a readable and creative way.
Contents
Chapter 1 Bodies, States and Body-States, Angus Cameron, Jen Dickinson, Nicola Smith; Part I Bodies Modified and Divided; Chapter 2 Female Circumcision vs. Designer Vaginas: Surgical Genital Practices and the Discursive Reproduction of State Boundaries, Emma A. Foster; Chapter 3 Hunger Strike: The Body as Resource, Reecia Orzeck; Chapter 4 Organ Transplantation: The Debt of Life? 1 Adapted by permission of Taylor and Francis from the journal article 'Repaying the gift of life: self-help, organ transfer and the debt of care', in Social and Cultural Geography volume 12, issue 8, pp. 889-903. Copyright © 2011, Jen Dickinson, Matthew Sothern; Part II Capital Bodies; Chapter 5 The Body in Capitalist Conditions of Existence: A Foundational Materialist Approach, Ian Bruff; Chapter 6 Money Bodies, Bill Maurer, Elham Mireshghi; Chapter 7 Corporeal Capitalism: Invisible Male Bodies in the Global Sexual Economy, Nicola Smith; Chapter 8 Asian Bodies/Western States (of Mind): A Postmodern Feminist Reading of Reproduction in East Asian Cultures, Ming Lim; Part III Deviance and Resistance; Chapter 9 Bodies of the State: On the Legal Entrenchment of (Dis)Ability, Katie Ledingham; Chapter 10 Unruly Bodies (Standing Against Apartheid), Gavin Brown; Chapter 11 Moments of Withdrawal: Homeschooling Mothers' Experiences of Taking Their Children Out of Mainstream Education, Peter Kraftl; Chapter 12 Greatest Treasures of the Pacific: Multicultural Genders and HIV Prevention in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Matt Sothern; Part IV Sovereignty and Surveillance; Chapter 13 Governing Mobile Bodies: Human Trafficking and (In)security States, Claudia Aradau; Chapter 14 The Smell of Power: A Contribution to the Critique of the Sniffer Dog, Mark Neocleous; Chapter 15 The Faceless Map: Banning the Cartographic Body, Angus Cameron; Part V The Body Virtual; Chapter 16 Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg, Tom Boellstorff; Chapter 17 The Story of the 'I', Heather Palmer; Chapter 18, Authority, Angus Cameron;
