Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Purnell, Kandida

Titel

Rethinking the Body in Global Politics: Bodies, Body Politics, and the Body Politic in a Time of Pandemic

Auflage

1st

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book rethinks the body in global politics and the particular roles bodies play in our international system, foregrounding processes and practices involved in the continually contested (re/dis)embodiment of both human bodies and collective bodies politic. Presented in the form of reflective/reflexive and theoretically innovative essays, the book explores bodies in general and their precarious, excessive, ontologically insecure, and emotional facets; the fleshing out of contemporary necro(body)politics; and the visual-emotional politics embodied through the COVID-19 pandemic. The empirical analyses presented feed into contemporary International Relations (IR) debates on British and American politics and international relations and the Global War on Terror, while also speaking to broader interdisciplinary (Sociological, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy) theoretical literature on bodies and embodiment, visual politics, biopolitics, necropolitics, and affect/emotions and feelings.