Bodies, Affects, Politics: The Clash of Bodily Regimes

ISBN-13: 9781118901984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 224 str.

Steve Pile

Spis treści

List of Figures Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: bodies, affects and their politicization Chapter 2. Dislocated by Epidermal Schemas: skin, race and a proper place for the body Chapter 3. The Chafing of Bodily Regimes: skin and the corporeal model of the ego Chapter 4. Bodies, Affects and their Passionate Forms: animal phobias and the topologies of bodily and psychic space Chapter 5. The Worldliness of Unconscious Processes: the repressive and distributive functions of the unconscious Chapter 6. The Transference of Affect: the communicative function of the unconscious Chapter 7. Crazy about their Bodies: the art-work of Sharon Kivland and the politics of the female body Chapter 8. Conclusion: bodies, affects, politics

O autorze

Steve Pile teaches Geography at The Open University, UK. Publishing on issues concerning place and the politics of identity, Steve is the author of Real Cities (2005) and The Body and The City (1996), which both develop a psychoanalytic approach to geography. It is through these projects that he became interested in bodies and affects and their relationship to contemporary modernity. His many collaborative projects include Psychoanalytic Geographies (2014) edited with Paul Kingsbury, and Spaces of Spirituality (2018) edited with Nadia Bartolini and Sara MacKian.