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Neumann's call for taking bodies more seriously in IR is a welcome intervention but is framed problematically. Through a reading of Butler, I argue that Neumann's invocation of a 'physical body' that needs to be brought into IR is itself an object of discourse, and that Butler would deny the distinction Neumann makes between the social and physical body. I also discuss Neumann's call for a dialogue with the physical sciences in reference to recent works associated with the 'new materialisms' and conclude by calling for critical attention to the ways in which bodies are brought into IR theory.

Kleidung kann als Material zur Identitätskonstruktion verstanden werden, das anhand der Kenntnis impliziter wie expliziter Regeln situationsadäquat zur Inszenierung des erfolgreichen Subjekts eingesetzt wird. Dem devianten Körper wird der Zugang zu trendbewusster Kleidung limitiert und somit auch die Identitätskonstruktion als "fashionable persona" erschwert. Anhand einer inhaltsanalytischen Untersuchung von Blog-Postings des Curvy Sewing Collective (CSC) und Selbstpräsentationen der sich als kurvig oder fett bezeichnenden Autorinnen können die Auseinandersetzung mit Kleidung als Material und der Praxis des Ankleidens als an einer sozialen Umwelt ausgerichteten Form der Optimierung des eigenen Körpers nachgezeichnet werden. Im Zusammenhang mit der Gemeinschaft des CSC entwickeln die untersuchten Subjekte Technologien des Selbst, die es erlauben, sich trotz wahrgenommener Devianz sozial akzeptabel zu kleiden und eine erfolgreiche Identitätskonstruktion als attraktive, modebewusste Frau zu unterstützen. Obgleich die dargestellten Attraktivitätsnormen Vorstellungen von normativer Weiblichkeit reproduzieren, ermöglicht das Kollektiv so individuelles Empowerment für die Teilnehmerinnen.

This book brings together essays by an international group of scholars and artists, focusing on live performance inspired by living in exile, or created by exiled artists. Bringing together a range of perspectives to examine the full impact of political, socio-economic or psychological experiences of exile, Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies presents an inclusive mix of established and emerging voices from varied cultural and geographic affiliations. Chapters blend close critical analysis and autoethnography to document and interrogate performances and the political, religious, economic and cultural contexts that inform them. With a foreword by Yana Meerzon, and featuring essays on artists of Mexican, Korean-American, Lebanese-Quebecois, Spanish, Azerbaijani and Canadian Aboriginal origin, to name a few, Performing Exile is truly diverse.

To examine the political role of architecture, this book presents an original engagement with the largest center of attraction in Tehran, namely, its bazaar. Through a rigorous study, it goes beyond the conventional sociopolitical and architectural discourses of this marketplace by considering architecture as an event. This book offers alternative modes of spatial thinking on a micropolitical level. Emphasis is placed on the focused exploration of key notions mainly drawn from the works of Michel Foucault. It deploys effective methods and shows how philosophical concepts can be deployed as a tool to analyse the ways through which architecture transforms individuals through the act of exchange--whether of words, things, bodies, or thoughts.

Investigates gendered aspects of the virtual environment suit as a particular mode of disembodied subjectivity, drawing on the work of Zoe Sofia (1992), Elizabeth Grosz (1992), & Luce Irigaray (1985). It is suggested that scientific commentary on virtual environments commonly refers to them in terms of the creation & control of occupiable spaces. As a key aspect of this control, the virtual environment suit weds technology & body into a cyborg-like fantasy of eradicated corporeal limits & disembodied mastery. In the guise of the virtual environment suit, cyberspace becomes a kind of ideal love object that is endless, reiterative, & excessively recombinant. However, despite the effort to erase the gendered female Other, the body of disembodied consciousness is intrinsically tied to the bodies it excludes. It is this paradox that opens opportunities for redeploying cyberspace in terms of differences between the spatiality of bodies rather than in terms of a unitary, masterful subjectivity. 27 References. D. Ryfe

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Thinking About Gender, Bodies and Work -- PART 1: THEORISING GENDER, BODIES AND WORK -- 2 Gender, Bodies, Work: Re-reading Texts -- 3 Embodying Emotional Labour -- PART 2: EMBODYING GENDERED LABOUR -- 4 Gendered Bodies and Boundary Setting in the Airline Industry -- 5 Gut Feeling, Back-Slapping - Gendered Embodiment on the Exchange -- 6 Embodying Male Workers as Fathers in a Flexible Working Life -- 7 The Gendered Embodiment of Agricultural Work: Nature, Machinery and Patriarchy -- 8 Embodied Gender Talks - The Gendered Discourse of Tiredness -- PART 3: GENDER AND BODYWORK -- 9 Gender and Care: The Role of Cultural Ideas of Dirt and Disgust -- 10 Men, Bodies and Nursing -- 11 All Foetuses Created Equal? Constructing Foetal, Maternal and Professional Bodies with Obstetric Ultrasound -- 12 Lonely Heroes and Great White Gods. Medical Stories, Masculine Stories -- Author Index -- Subject Index