基本説明
Creatively combines contributions on disability, illness, scars, sleep, complementary medicine, running, as well as the lifecourse themes of childhood, youth and death.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction PART I: THEORIZING EMBODIED PRACTICE: METAPHOR AND METHODS The Storyteller's Paradox: Homeopathy in the Borderlands; A.Scott Bodies, Battlefields and Biographies: Scars and the Construction of the Body as Heritage; K.A.Burnett & M.Holmes Dissonant Choreographies: Performativity and Method in Social-cultural Research; J.van Loon & B.H.Rockwell ; Refusing to Fight: A Playful Approach to Chronic Disease; G.Pillsbury PART II: NEGLECTED BODIES AND EVERYDAY LIFE Disability Studies and Phenomenology: Finding a Space for both the Carnal and the Political; K.Paterson The Body and Death; C.Seale The (Im)possibilities of Living as People with AIDS: Incorporating Death into Everyday Life; B.Heaphy 'Dormant Issues? Towards a Sociology of Sleep'; S.J.Williams PART III: EXPLORING BODIES, SPACE AND LEISURE Techniques of Neutralization, Techniques of Body Management and the Public Harassment of Runners; G.Smith Stop Making Sense? The Problem of the Body in Youth/Sub/Counter-Culture; P.Sweetman 'All We Needed To Do was Blow the Whistle': Children's Embodiment of Time; P.Christensen, A.James & C.Jenks Dreams of Disembodiment: The Secret History of the Remote Control; M.Michael Index
