Cunningham-Burley / Backett-Milburn Exploring the Body

2001
ISBN: 978-0-230-50196-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Explorations in Sociology.

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cunningham-Burley, S.

Backett-Milburn, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

KATHRYN BURNETT Lecturer in Sociology, University of Paisley
PAI CHRISTENSEN Lecturer in Anthropology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Social Study of Childhood, University of Hull
BRIAN HEAPHY Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Nottingham Trent University
MARY HOLMES Lecturer in Sociology, University of Aberdeen
ALLISON JAMES Reader in Applied Anthropology, University of Hull
CHRIS JENKS Professor of Sociology and Pro-Warden (Research) at Goldsmiths College, University of London
MIKE MICHAEL Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
KEVIN PATERSON Research Student, School of Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
GERALD PILLSBURY Associate Professor of Educational Studies, Western Michigan University
HANNAH ROCKWELL Associate Professor of Communication and Director of Peace Studies, Loyola University, Chicago
ANNE SCOTT Lecturer in Women's Studies and Social Policy, University of Bradford
CLIVE SEALE Reader in Medical Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
GREG SMITH Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Salford
PAUL SWEETMAN Lecturer in Sociology, University of Southampton
SIMON WILLIAMS Reader in Sociology, University of Warwick
JOOST VAN LOON Senior Lecturer in Social Theory, Department of English and Media Studies, Nottingham Trent University