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Exoskeletal Devices and the Body: Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Autor Denisa Butnaru
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 iul 2023
This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.
Challenging material boundaries of human bodies, their capacities, (in)abilities and skills, exoskeletal devices question social norms of corporeal “deviance” and “extension.” Through multi-sited ethnography, interviews and analyses of contemporary science and technology studies (STS), sociological literature and current approaches from the phenomenology of the body, this book shows how exoskeletons contribute to forging three contemporary “corporeal worlds”: impairment, ability and above-average ability.
The text questions deeply held ideas about enhancement and augmentation, corporeal deviance and “normality,” in the three studied fields of rehabilitation, industry and the armed forces. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students across the social sciences and humanities, including from sociology, philosophy, body studies, and science and technology studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032503769
ISBN-10: 1032503769
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Advances in Sociology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academic, General, and Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction: From science fictions to science facts
Part I. Technological objects facing embodied subjects
2. Among bodies, exoskeletons and sites
3. Where exoskeletons aim to enter: Realms of human bodies
Part II. Exoskeletons and their corporeal worlds
4. Impaired bodies
5. Able bodies
Part III. What exoskeletons do to the body: Advancing corporealities
6. New body shapes
7. Reinvesting corporeal capabilities: "Deviance" and "extension" redefined
8. Epilogue: Producing bodies while extending them

Notă biografică

Denisa Butnaru is Deputy Professor of General and Cultural Sociology in the Department of History, Sociology, Empirical Educational Research and Sport Science, University of Konstanz, Germany. Her areas of research are socioanthropology of the body and technology, contemporary developments in phenomenology of the body, and qualitative methodology in the social sciences.

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This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.