Synopses & Reviews
This book explores the 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, and running, as well as the lifecourse themes of childhood, youth and death. The different approaches to reaching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case studies, interviews, and participant observation.
Table of Contents
Part I: Theorizing Embodied Practice: Metaphor and Methods * The Storyteller's Paradox: Homeopathy in the Borderlands—Anne Scott * Bodies, Battlefields and Biograpies: Scars and the Construction of the Body as Heritage—Kathryn A. Burnett & Mary Holmes * Dissonant Choreographies: Performativity and Method in Socio-Cultureal research—Joost van Loon & B. Hannah Rockwell * Refusing to Fight: A Playful Approach to Chronic Disease—Gerald Pillsbury *
Part II: Neglected Bodies and Everyday Life * Disability Studies and Phenomenology: Finding a Space for Both the Carnal and the Political—Kevin Paterson * The Body and Death—Clive Seale * The (Im)Possibilities of Living as People with AIDS: Incorporating Death into Everyday Life—Brian Heaphy * "Dormant Issues? Towards a Sociology of Sleep"—Simon J. Williams *
Part III: Exploring Bodies: Time, Space and leisure * Techniques of Neutralization, Techniques of Body Management and the Public Harassment of Runners—Greg Smith * Stop Making Sense? The Problem of the body in Youth/Sub/Counter-Culture—Paul Sweetman * "All We Needed to do Was Blow the Whistle": Children's Embodiment of Time—Pia Christensen, Allison James & Chris Jenks * Dreams of Disembodiment: the Secret History of the Remote Control—Mike Michael Part I: Theorizing Embodied Practice: Metaphor and Methods * The Storyteller's Paradox: Homeopathy in the Borderlands—Anne Scott * Bodies, Battlefields and Biograpies: Scars and the Construction of the Body as Heritage—Kathryn A. Burnett & Mary Holmes * Dissonant Choreographies: Performativity and Method in Socio-Cultureal research—Joost van Loon & B. Hannah Rockwell * Refusing to Fight: A Playful Approach to Chronic Disease—Gerald Pillsbury *
Part II: Neglected Bodies and Everyday Life * Disability Studies and Phenomenology: Finding a Space for Both the Carnal and the Political—Kevin Paterson * The Body and Death—Clive Seale * The (Im)Possibilities of Living as People with AIDS: Incorporating Death into Everyday Life—Brian Heaphy * "Dormant Issues? Towards a Sociology of Sleep"—Simon J. Williams *
Part III: Exploring Bodies: Time, Space and leisure * Techniques of Neutralization, Techniques of Body Management and the Public Harassment of Runners—Greg Smith * Stop Making Sense? The Problem of the body in Youth/Sub/Counter-Culture—Paul Sweetman * "All We Needed to do Was Blow the Whistle": Children's Embodiment of Time—Pia Christensen, Allison James & Chris Jenks * Dreams of Disembodiment: the Secret History of the Remote Control—Mike Michael