Corporeality: The Body and Society (Issues in the Social Sciences): 8 - Softcover

Cassandra A. Ogden; Stephen Wakeman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905929978 ISBN 13: 9781905929979

Publisher: University of Chester Press, 2013

Synopsis

Regardless of how a person spends her or his day, in a classroom, in work or outside employment, whatever our thoughts, beliefs and experiences of life, all living is embodied. We are of and within our bodies. During the last thirty years, social scientists have increasingly turned their attention to the body as a site of both theoretical engagement and empirical exploration. Recently, public discourse has also become preoccupied with embodied debates: the obesity crisis and the London 2012 Paralympics have located the body firmly in the realm of public interest. The new essays collected in Corporeality: The Body and Society demonstrate some of the unique advantages attainable through studying the body sociologically. Focusing in on a series of embodied fields related to lifestyle media, war, disability, drugs and mental health, the book re-states the fundamental importance of a body-centred approach in the social sciences. Work by established experts in the field sits side by side with new voices to provide an accessible and stimulating snap-shot of the role of the body in society in the early-twenty first century.

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About the Author

Dr Cassandra A. Ogden is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Sociology at the University of Chester. She gained her BA (Hons) at the University of Leeds in 2001 and a PhD at the University of Central Lancashire. Her PhD thesis explored the quality of life and experiences of children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which fuelled her interest in the social disgust of the leaky realities of the body. Much of her current work utilises a critical disability studies perspective but Cassandra has also published and co-published on disability hate crime, childhood illness experiences and the narrative inquiry technique. Cassandra is also one of the key organisers of the international Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane annual conference. Steve Wakeman is a criminologist interested in all aspects of the sociology of intoxication. Having received a BSc and MA from the University of Chester he is now undertaking his doctoral research in the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Manchester. His research (funded by the ESRC), is an ethnographic study of heroin and crack cocaine users and dealers in North West England and is due to be completed in 2014. In addition to this, he also teaches sociology and criminology at Chester and Manchester respectively.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chester Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905929978
• ISBN 13: 9781905929979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 163
• Editor: Cassandra A. Ogden, Stephen Wakeman