Alter(ed) Bodies

Beyond Biopolitics
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1884-8
Verlag: V & R Unipress GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 015, 238 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 466 g

Reihe: TRANSitions / Transdisciplinary, Transmedial and Transnational Cultural Studies / Transdisziplinäre, transmediale und transnationale Studien zur Kultu

The fundamental assumption behind the volume is that the current civilizational crisis, manifested in such phenomena as climate change, environmental catastrophes, pandemics and wars, puts into question the biopolitical means of optimizing the life of populations and individuals. To narrow down the thematic concerns of the volume, the chapters are centered around the notion of body, fundamental for the majority of theoretical takes on biopolitics. The volume shows that in the current age of catastrophes bodies are not only shaped and individualized through procedures of institutionalized discipline, but by an entanglement of environmental and planetary factors, typically omitted in extant accounts of biopolitics. The chapters go beyond biopolitics, because they show bodies as sites of operation of non-human or more-than-human agencies that work on scales inaccessible to human sensorium.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borowski, Mateusz

Sugiera, Malgorzata

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chaberski, Mateusz

Póltorak, Arkadiusz

Iwanczewska, Lucja

Baluch, Wojciech

Bal, Ewa

Urbanowicz, Piotr

Ryba, Filip

Mieczkowska, Sylwia

Dziadek, Martyna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Sugiera, Malgorzata
Malgorzata Sugiera is a Full Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies. Her research concentrates on performativity theories, speculative and decolonial studies, particularly in the context of the history of science.

Sugiera, Malgorzata
Malgorzata Sugiera is a Full Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies. Her research concentrates on performativity theories, speculative and decolonial studies, particularly in the context of the history of science.

Borowski, Mateusz
Mateusz Borowski is a Professor at the Department for Performativity Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Currently his main areas of interest are green humanities, counterfactual discourses and speculative fabulations in the context of climate change.