Body & Society
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Body & Society has from its inception in March 1995 as a companion journal to Theory, Culture & Society, pioneered and shaped the field of body-studies. It has been committed to theoretical openness characterized by the publication of a wide range of critical approaches to the body, alongside the encouragement and development of innovative work that contains a trans-disciplinary focus.
The disciplines reflected in the journal have included anthropology, art history, communications, cultural history, cultural studies, environmental studies, feminism, film studies, health studies, leisure studies, medical history, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, science studies, sociology and sport studies. The journal has also sought to examine a wide range of issues which have arisen from the writings of theorists such as: Baudrillard, Bergson, Bourdieu, Butler, Cixous, Deleuze, Douglas, Elias, Ettinger, Foucault, Haraway, Kristeva, Latour, Mauss, Merleau-Ponty, and Simondon.
Emergent Themes
In recent years studies of the body and embodiment have become increasingly central to discussions of technologies, film, media practices, communication, performance, art, regeneration, architecture, labour, dance, affect and life. These are some of the emergent objects, practices and themes that have been enriched by a turn to the body and embodiment, and which are reflected in the emergence of a huge and growing body-studies literature*.*
Body & Society has become the key journal for publishing work related to the trans-disciplinary field of body-studies. There is a renewed interest in life and affect across the social sciences and humanities. The paradigms of life and affect break down the distinction between humans and other life forms, and is echoed in debates across the biological and 'environmental' sciences. This is a new post-humanism that examines our communality with other forms of creaturely life and companion species, and the need for a non-anthropocentric ethics. The body that organizes such diverse practices and areas of experience is a body that is open, relational, human and non-human, material, indeterminate, immaterial, multiple, sentient and processual. These issues also relate to a wide array of debates pertinent not only to science and technology, but also to philosophy and social theory. The journal therefore addresses issues such as: body image, the self, ageing, consumer culture, the body as a social agent, the body as a sign and symbol, affectivity and emotions, sport, gender, sexuality, and the history of the body.
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Body & Society has from its inception in March 1995 as a peer-reviewed companion journal to Theory, Culture & Society, pioneered and shaped the field of body-studies. It has been committed to theoretical openness characterized by the publication of a wide range of critical approaches to the body, alongside the encouragement and development of innovative work that contains a trans-disciplinary focus.
The disciplines reflected in the journal have included anthropology, art history, communications, cultural history, cultural studies, environmental studies, feminism, film studies, health studies, leisure studies, medical history, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, science studies, sociology and sport studies. The journal has also sought to examine a wide range of issues which have arisen from the writings of theorists such as: Baudrillard, Bergson, Bourdieu, Butler, Cixous, Deleuze, Douglas, Elias, Ettinger, Foucault, Haraway, Kristeva, Latour, Mauss, Merleau-Ponty, and Simondon.
Emergent Themes
In recent years work on the body has exploded and studies of the body and embodiment have become increasingly central to discussions of technologies, film, media practices, communication, performance, art, regeneration, architecture, labour, dance, affect and life. These are some of the emergent objects, practices and themes that have been enriched by a turn to the body and embodiment, and which are reflected in the emergence of a huge and growing body-studies literature.
Special Re-Launch Issue - Body, Affect, Life
It thus seemed timely to re-launch Body & Society as the key journal for publishing work related to body-matters, and also to re-position the journal as leading and shaping the trans-disciplinary field of body-studies. In our role we have identified a number of emergent themes that are shaping the field, and these include a renewed interest in relation to life and affect across the social sciences and humanities. The paradigms of life and affect break down the distinction between humans and other life forms, and is echoed in debates across the biological and 'environmental' sciences. This is a new post-humanism that examines our communality with other forms of creaturely life and companion species, and the need for a non-anthropocentric ethics. The body that organizes such diverse practices and areas of experience is a body that is open, relational, human and non-human, material, indeterminate, immaterial, multiple, sentient and processual.
| Mike Featherstone | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Lisa Blackman | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Tomoko Tamari | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Samantha Schäfer | Freelance Editorial Office, UK |
| Lisa Blackman | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Roger Burrows | University of York, UK |
| Patricia Clough | The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA |
| Nick Crossley | University of Manchester, UK |
| Mike Featherstone | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Chris Shilling | University of Kent, UK |
| Gary L Albrecht | University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
| Rosi Braidotti | State University of Utrecht |
| Robin Bunton | University of York, UK |
| Pasi Falk | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Arthur Frank | University of Calgary, Canada |
| Sarah Franklin | Cambridge University, UK |
| Ann Game | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Uta Gerhardt | University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Rick Gruneau | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada |
| David Le Breton | Faculte des sciences sociales, France |
| Mica Nava | University of East London, UK |
| John O'Neill | York University, Ontario, Canada |
| Elspeth Probyn | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Kevin Robins | Independent Researcher, Istanbul |
| Chris Rojek | City, University of London, UK |
| Nancy Scheper Hughes | University of California, USA |
| Michael J. Shapiro | University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA |
| Richard Shusterman | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
| Meenakshi Thapan | Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India |
| Estella Tincknell | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| Loic Wacquant | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
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