Rethinking the body in global politics : bodies, body politics and the body politic in a time of pandemic / Kandida Purnell.

Rethinking the body in global politics : an introduction -- On bodies -- Body politics -- The body politic -- Conflicted bodies -- Rethinking the body in global politics : some conclusions.

'This book rethinks the body in global politics and the particular roles bodies play in our international system, foregrounding processes and practices involved in the continually contested (re/dis)embodiment of both human bodies and collective bodies politic. Purnell provides a new, innovative, and detailed theory of bodily (re)making and un-making that shows how bodies are simultaneously (re)made and moved and (re)make and move other bodies and things. Presented in the form of reflective/reflexive and theoretically innovative essays, the book explores: bodies in general and their precarious, excessive, ontologically insecure, and emotional facets; the fleshing out of contemporary necro(body)politics; and the visual-emotional politics embodied through the COVID-19 pandemic'-- Provided by publisher.

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