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Rejecting static and reductionist understandings of subjectivity, this book asks how people find their place in the world. Mapping the Subject is an inter-disciplinary exploration of subjectivity, which focuses on the importance of space in the constitution of acting, thinking, feeling individuals.
The authors develop their arguments through detailed case studies and clear theoretical expositions. Themes discussed are organised into four parts: constructing the subject, sexuality and subjectivity, the limits of identity, and the politics of the subject.
There is, here, a commitment to mapping the subject - a subject which is in some ways fluid, in other ways fixed; which is located in constantly unfolding power, knowledge and social relationships. This book is, moreover, about new maps for the subject.
List of contents
1: Introduction; 2: Mapping the Subject; I: Constructing the Subject; 3: Knowing the Individual; 4: Maps and Polar Regions; 5: ‘The Art of Right Living'; 6: Families and Domestic Routines; II: Sexuality and Subjectivity; 7: The Sexed Self; 8: Women on Trial; 9: Men, Heterosexualities and Emotional Life; III: The Limits of Identity; 10: Mapping ‘Mad' Identities; 11: Bodies without Organs; 12: Exploring the Subject in Hyper-Reality; 13: Migrant Selves and Stereotypes; IV: The Politics of the Subject; 14: Time, Space and Otherness 1; 15: Subject to Change without Notice; 16: Making Space for the Female Subject of Feminism; 17: Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Street Rebels; 18: Conclusions
About the author
Steve Pile, Nigel Thrift
Summary
Is it possible to map the human subject? This book explores the places of the subject in contemporary culture from a variety of directions and in the process, maps new territory for that subject, seeking new spaces, politics and possibilities.
