Bodies Without Borders

by E. Casanova (Editor), A. Jafar (Editor)

Overview

Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the driving force of global change, and people have bodies that are absent from current conversations about globalization. The original scholarly research and first-person accounts of embodiment in this volume explore the role of bodies in the flows of people, money, commodities, and ideas across borders. From Zumba fitness classes to martial arts to fashion blogs and the meanings of tattooing, the contributors examine migrating body practices and ideals that stretch across national boundaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349476039
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/18/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kamille Gentles-Peart, Roger Williams University, USA Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Newcastle University, UK Joel Gwynne, National Institute for Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Barbara Sutton, the University at Albany, USA Nahed Eltantawy, High Point University, USA Lionel Loh, University of Singapore, Singapore Thomas J.D. Armbrecht, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Verena Hutter, DePauw University, USA Anisha Gautam, University of New South Wales, Australia Diana Brenscheidt, University of Sonora, Mexico

Table of Contents

1. The Global Martial Circuit and Globalized Bodies; Lionel Loh Han Loong 2. West Indian Immigrant Women, Body Politics and Cultural Citizenship; Kamille Gentles-Peart 3. Don't You See? (Personal Reflection); Mónica Moreno Figueroa 4. New Femininity, Neoliberalism and Young Women's Fashion Blogs in Singapore and Malaysia; Joel Gwynne 5. Fashion of Fear: Securing the Body in an Unequal Global World; Barbara Sutton 6. My Struggle with the Headscarf (Personal Reflection); Nahed Eltantawy 7. The Face is the Mask: Global Modifications of Body and Soul (Personal Reflection); Thomas J.D. Armbrecht 8. Images in Skin: Tattooed Performers in Germany in the Twentieth Century and Today; Verena Hutter 9. Fragments: Stories of An-Other Life (Personal Reflection); Anisha Gautam 10. 'A Mover la Colita': Zumba Dance-Fitness in Mexico and Beyond; Diana Brenscheidt gen. Jost

Editorial Reviews

Bodies without Borders makes an important connection between globalisation and the border versus body modification and boundaries of the body. … the book traces not only the powers of globalisation and neoliberalism but also the porosity of both political borders and physical bodies. It raises crucial questions around the debates on embodiment and subjectivity and will be of much interest to scholars working on gender issues, borders, globalisation, and neoliberalism.” (Rimple Mehta, Border Criminologies, law.ox.ac.uk, May, 2016)

"From Zumba and tattooing to bulletproof fashion and beauty regimes, a unique and provocative look into the body politics of globalization that blends transdisciplinary and transnational analyses of and personal reflections on the restructuring of bodies, identities, and embodied knowledge." - Anne Sisson Runyan, Professor, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Cincinnati, USA

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