The Politics of Bodies at Risk: The Human in the Body - Softcover

Struble, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786601230 ISBN 13: 9781786601230

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

An understanding of International Relations exclusively as a sphere plagued by countless known and unknown risks, looming disasters and imminent threats leaves an important aspect of the study of politics unengaged – that of the human herself.

The Politics of Bodies at Risk re-engages and re-conceptualizes politics from the point of view of the everyday experiences of human materiality living with risk across geopolitical worlds and state borders. Re-imagining human bodies as productive, singular and embodied materiality removes them from an understanding of “life” in an age of terror as pejorative, dispensable, and burdensome, enabling a novel understanding of politics as an embodiment of human bodies with risk, and not as a sphere of activity aimed primarily at managing, silencing, and normalizing the risky other.

Drawing on case studies from several countries and across several disciplines, The Politics of Bodies at Risk investigates the possibility of developing an understanding of the productive possibilities contained in engaging with the human body as a site of a radical interconnectedness between politics, singularity, risk, and security.

About this title

About the Author

Maria Struble is an Associate Professor of Politics and Government at Western State Colorado University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786601230
• ISBN 13: 9781786601230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195