Crisis and Body Politics in Twenty-First Century Cultural Production

Territorial Bodies
Herausgeber: Spear, Charlotte; Sinclair, Madeleine

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining themes such as (inter)national bodily governance, racialised bodies, eco-feminist movements, spatial justice and bodily displacement, this collection provides a deeper analysis of the interconnected forms of violence perpetrated against marginalised human and non-human bodies

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032689036
• ISBN-10: 103268903X
• Artikelnr.: 72107276

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Spear is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her thesis is titled "Locating the Human: World Literature and the Concept of Rights" and explores the role of literature in rethinking dominant human rights frameworks. She has published on the notion of the "state of emergency" in Modern Language Review, on refugee-migrant fiction in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, on postcolonial humanitarian intervention with De Gruyter and on sex workers' rights in debt economies in The Journal of World-Systems Research. Madeleine Sinclair is a Comparative Literature PhD candidate and Early Career Teaching Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning at University of Warwick, UK. Entitled "World-Literature, Neoliberalism and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century Short Story-Cycle", her Wolfson Foundation-funded PhD thesis foregrounded the short story as a distinctive genre in world-literature by examining the interconnections between aesthetics and politics in contemporary short fictional forms. Her work is published, or forthcoming, in Literature Compass, Journal of World-Systems Research and Journal of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. She is guest editor of a special issue on "Short Fiction: Landscape and Temporality", forthcoming with the Journal of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Territorial Bodies in Crisis
I: Aquatic Bodies
1. Inhuman Futures: Unmooring Extractivism through Drexciyan
Afrofuturism
2. Feminist Aquapelagic Relational Bodies in Mussiro Women of Ibo
Island: Diving in Submerged/Emergent Praxes Of Existence, Resistance
and Peace in/with the Oceans
3. Troubled Waters: Thin Places, the Troubles, and Nature Writing
II: Bodily Integrity
1. Transcorporeal Alliances: Mapping the Territorial Bodies in Middle
Eastern Women's Video Art
2. The Breaking of the Body: Blackness, Nature, and Animality in David
Dabydeen's Slave Song
III: De-Territorial Bodies
1. Tracking the Politics of (De)Territorial Language in Postcolonial
Algeria
2. Territories of Transition: Navigating Trans Embodiment, Identity, and
Activism in Neoliberal Landscapes
IV: Bodily Futures
1. Inscribed Capital, Human Bodies: Interpellating Contemporary World
Bank Expressions
2. The Ghosts We See From the Mountains: Scenario Planning and the
Territorial Body in Time
3. Peasant Futurisms rooted in Body-as-Territory: how Peasant Practices
of Subsistence Farming and Food Sovereignty Challenge the Hegemony of
Late Capitalism
Index