Kirsten Simonsen, Lasse Koefoed

Geographies of Embodiment

Critical Phenomenology and the World of Strangers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about otherness and encounter which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city. It situates these arguments in a wider political context, looking at power-relations through case studies at urban, national and transnational scales.

These arguments are situated across disciplinary boundaries, at the borderline between between philosophy and social science that is associated to critical phenomenology, and reaches across Human Geography, Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Urban Studies.

Produktdetails

• Society and Space
• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 165mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781526463586
• ISBN-10: 152646358X
• Artikelnr.: 56975998

Autorenporträt

Kirsten Simonsen is Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research concerns issues of philosophy of geography, Nordic geography, spatial conceptualizations, urban theory and everyday practices, and the living of racialized Others in contemporary European Cities. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Figuring the ground
a.What is critical phenomenology
b.Critical phenomenology as a 'New Humanism'
Chapter 2. Bodies and embodiment
a.Thinking the body
b.Embodied Identities
c.The temporality and spatiality of the body (including case '(re)scaling identities)
d.Affectivity and emotions
Chapter 3. Encountering the Other
a.The concept of encounter
b.Different modes of encounter
c.Collective planned encounters
d.Encounters with authorities
e.Banal everyday encounters
Chapter 4. Urban Perspectives
a.The Flesh of the urban
b.The urban as a world of strangers
c.From invisibility to visibility: Opening of a purpose-built mosque in Copenhagen
Chapter 5: Political Perspectives
a.Everyday politics
b.Everyday nationalism
e.Politics of hospitality

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Introduction
Chapter 1. Figuring the ground
a. What is critical phenomenology
b. Critical phenomenology as a 'New Humanism'
Chapter 2. Bodies and embodiment
a. Thinking the body
b. Embodied Identities
c. The temporality and spatiality of the body (including case '(re)scaling
identities)
d. Affectivity and emotions
Chapter 3. Encountering the Other
a. The concept of encounter
b. Different modes of encounter
c. Collective planned encounters
d. Encounters with authorities
e. Banal everyday encounters
Chapter 4. Urban Perspectives
a. The Flesh of the urban
b. The urban as a world of strangers
c. From invisibility to visibility: Opening of a purpose-built mosque in
Copenhagen
Chapter 5: Political Perspectives
a. Everyday politics
b. Everyday nationalism
e. Politics of hospitality

Rezensionen

Geographies of Embodiment by Koefoed and Simonsen presents articulate and sophisticated insights into issues about encounters, space and bodies through a practice-orientated reading of phenomenology. The book draws upon four projects over the last fifteen years about cities, encounters and nationalism to offer critical and engaging readings of encounters, embodiment, and the politics of urban life. This is an important text for critical and engaged scholars working in human geography, urban studies and racial and ethnic studies.

Peter Hopkins, Professor of Social Geography, Newcastle University

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