ISBN:
9780230501966
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (264 pages)
Series Statement:
Explorations in Sociology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Human body-Social aspects-Congresses..
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Human body-Research-Congresses
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of empirical work on different themes, each taking the body and its study as its central problematic. It creatively combines contributions on disability, illness, scars, sleep, complementary medicine, running, as well as the lifecourse themes of childhood, youth and death. The different approaches to researching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case-studies, interviews and participant observation.
Abstract:
Cover -- Exploring the Body -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Theorizing Embodied Practice: Metaphor and Methods -- 1 The Storyteller's Paradox: Homeopathy in the Borderlands Anne Scott -- 2 Bodies, Battlefields and Biographies: Scars and the Construction of the Body as Heritage -- 3 Dissonant Choreographies: Performativity and Method in Socio-cultural Research -- 4 Refusing to Fight: A Playful Approach to Chronic Disease -- Part II Neglected Bodies and Everyday Life -- 5 Disability Studies and Phenomenology: Finding a Space for both the Carnal and the Political -- 6 The Body and Death -- 7 The (Im)possibilities of Living as People with AIDS: Incorporating Death into Everyday Life -- 8 Dormant Issues? Towards a Sociology of Sleep1 -- Part III Exploring Bodies: Time, Space and Leisure -- 9 Techniques of Neutralization, Techniques of Body Management and the Public Harassment of Runners -- 10 Stop Making Sense? The Problem of the Body in Youth/Sub/Counter-Culture -- 11 'All We Needed to do was Blow the Whistle': Children's Embodiment of Time -- 12 Dreams of Disembodiment: The Secret History of the Remote Control -- Index.
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