Compulsive Body Spaces

ISBN-13: 9780367626099 / Miękka / 2023 / 188 str.

Diana Beljaars

Opis

Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of compulsion. Providing a compelling account of the lives of 15 people with Tourette syndrome, it demystifies the seemingly irrational, purposeless and meaningless character of this behaviour.

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter 1: Confusions: Dead ends and (un)making sense

Chapter 2: Complications: Neuropsychiatric rationalisations

Chapter 3: Compulsive expressions

Chapter 4: Urgency: On becoming compulsive

Chapter 5: Configurations: Compulsive bodies

Chapter 6: Object excess: Movement in concert

Chapter 7: Compulsive durations: Ecologies of stability

Chapter 8: Mediations: Finding ways with compulsive life

Chapter 9: A compulsive worlding of (post)humanity

O autorze

Diana Beljaars is a research fellow at the Swansea University Geography Department. Interested in culture, disability, and health, she combines human geography, medical humanities, continental philosophy, and Tourette syndrome-related neuropsychiatry. She published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and co-edited Civic Spaces and Desire (Routledge).