Description
This PhD course develops the concept of body economies to highlight the ways in which bodies are, on the one hand, constituted as physio-psycho-social assemblages, assembled by and for social and political authorities (Mauss 1973), generating various material and symbolic effects; and on the other, are sites and means through which material and symbolic value is produced, transformed, transported, marketed and exchanged both by subjects/citizens themselves and by various external actors. The analytical focus is on the political and economic dynamics through and for which bodies are assembled or disassembled, and mobilised or immobilised. The notion of body economies hence brings the dual lenses of political economy and the body to bear on issues of gender and sexuality; mobility, insecurity, and confinement; forms of value and production and reproduction; and citizenship and sovereignty in the Global South. The dual lenses of an economy of bodies and economies of the body – or bodies as objects of governance and units of economies on the one hand and the body as the vehicle of techniques for training, disciplining and performing the self, or sites of value and exchange on the other hand – opens up to understanding the inter-related materiality and symbolism of bodily practices and systems of relationships in a number of core areas.| Period | 5 Apr 2017 → 7 Apr 2017 |
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| Event type | Course |
| Location | Copenhagen, DenmarkShow on map |