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Zusatztext 'We need much more work on embodied political economy to understand power in its deepest senses. The breadth of this volume is an excellent indication of how rich this terrain is for critical understanding towards a better world.' Gillian Youngs! University of Brighton! UK 'Body/State offers an innovative take on how relationships between money and politics! representation and embodiment! visibility and political participation increasingly detour through flesh and blood! leaving our bodies at once ruled and unruly sites for political transformation.' Kath Weston! University of Virginia! USA Informationen zum Autor Angus Cameron, University of Leicester, UK; Jen Dickinson, University of Leicester, UK and Nicola Smith University of Birmingham, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;...
