Crisis and Body Politics in Twenty-First Century Cultural Production

Territorial Bodies
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-68903-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Warwick Series in the Humanities

The twenty-first century has been deemed the “Age of Crisis”. We are witnessing the catastrophic unfolding of environmental crisis, financial crisis, pandemic and conflict. But are we to understand these crises as new phenomena? Is their seemingly simultaneous existence purely coincidental? Or rather do they instead form part of a singular, historically produced, unfolding crisis, which only today has reached a generalised consciousness? And perhaps most urgently, how far can we separate the crises of human experience from those exacted upon the land?

The chapters collected in Crisis and Body Politics in Twenty-First Century Cultural Production: Territorial Bodies deploy the framework of “Territorial Bodies” to address urgent social, ecological and political challenges. 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, taking this combined violence as the defining feature of contemporary crisis.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spear, Charlotte

Sinclair, Madeleine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

 

Introduction: Territorial Bodies in Crisis

I: Aquatic Bodies            

- Inhuman Futures: Unmooring Extractivism through Drexciyan Afrofuturism    

- Feminist Aquapelagic Relational Bodies in Mussiro Women of Ibo Island: Diving in Submerged/Emergent Praxes Of Existence, Resistance and Peace in/with the Oceans       

- Troubled Waters: Thin Places, the Troubles, and Nature Writing

II: Bodily Integrity

- Transcorporeal Alliances: Mapping the Territorial Bodies in Middle Eastern Women’s Video Art      

- The Breaking of the Body: Blackness, Nature, and Animality in David Dabydeen’s Slave Song 

III: De-Territorial Bodies 

- Tracking the Politics of (De)Territorial Language in Postcolonial Algeria

- Territories of Transition: Navigating Trans Embodiment, Identity, and Activism in Neoliberal Landscapes            

IV: Bodily Futures

- Inscribed Capital, Human Bodies: Interpellating Contemporary World Bank Expressions           

- The Ghosts We See From the Mountains: Scenario Planning and the Territorial Body in Time       

- Peasant Futurisms rooted in Body-as-Territory: how Peasant Practices of Subsistence Farming and Food Sovereignty Challenge the Hegemony of Late Capitalism                 

 

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.