The Body

Landzelius, Michael

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“…A back-and-forth abductive process (Peirce 1934;Reichertz 2007) between participants' narratives and photographs of their bodies highlight how the latter are spatially conceived and managed. Various theories of space, place, and the body are considered (Casey 2001;Lefebvre 1974;Landzelius 2004;Massey 1994;Thrift 2004;Tuan 1979), of which Foucault's work on the "Utopian Body" (2006) and "Of Other Spaces" (1986) best substantiates our data. Prolonged engagement in the field, a "recursive process of double-fitting data and theories" (Timmermans and Tavory 2012, 179), as well as final discussions with key participants ensure the credibility of our analytical framework.…”

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The Body as (Another) Place: Producing Embodied Heterotopias Through Tattooing

Roux

Belk

2018

Journal of Consumer Research

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While previous research has mobilized sociological and psychological readings of the body, this study considers it ontologically as the ultimate place we must live in, with no escape possible. A phenomenological framework and a four-year, multimethod, qualitative study of tattoo recipients and tattooists substantiates the conceptualization of the body as a threefold articulation: an inescapable place (topia), the source of utopias arising from fleeting trajectories between here and elsewhere, and the “embodied heterotopia” that it becomes when people rework their bodies as a better place to inhabit. We show how tattooed bodies are spatially conceived as a topia through their topographies, territories, landscapes, and limits. We then highlight how this creates a dynamic interplay between past, present, and future, resulting in utopian dreams of beautification, escape, conjuration, and immutability. Finally, we show how tattooees produce embodied heterotopias, namely other places that both mirror and compensate for their ontological entrapment. In considering the body as a place, our framework enriches phenomenological and existential approaches to self-transformation in contemporary consumption.

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The Body as (Another) Place: Producing Embodied Heterotopias Through Tattooing

Roux

Belk

2018

Journal of Consumer Research

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“…Objects may thus in a certain sense produce subjects, and the nationstate may be seen as such a productive machinic assemblage, a more-than-human-aggregate through which subjects are made to appear in a certain fashion. As is clear from the enumeration above of different measures taken to combat alleged 'Communist' security risks within the nation-state, dehumanizing anti-communism was not a matter of simply naming real risks, but a productive element in the creation and transformation of political bodies in the body politic (Landzelius, 2004). Since no systematic research exists on the topic at hand, the empirical material presented below consists of fragments from research on other topics, as well as information gathered during my own archival research on related or other topics.…”

Section: Biopower/biopolitics -Extending the Real/ Politics Of 'Realpmentioning

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‘homo sacer’ out of left field: communist “slime” as bare life in 1930s and second world war sweden

Landzelius¹

2006

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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This article maps ways in which radical left‐wing politics in 1930s and Second World War Sweden were conceived in medico‐biological and eugenic terms that expressed strong dehumanizing sentiments. The article engages Agamben's and Foucault's thinking on ‘biopolitics’ and ‘biopower’, and extensively exemplifies dehumanizing discourse as deployed by leading Social Democratic politicians, leading figures of government within the police and military, as well as by editors of both right‐wing and Social Democratic press. Ways in which individuals labelled ‘Communists’ were spatially managed in terms of extensive surveillance, registration, detainment planning and forms of incarceration are addressed. I further discuss state measures that may be seen as elements of a state of exception, some measures implemented against ‘Communists’, and others against individuals deemed to have undesirable characteristics seen to be hereditary. In employing Agamben's notion of ‘inoperosity’ in a discussion of a state paradigm of social productivity, eugenic measures in the building of the Swedish welfare state are then related to the dehumanizing framing of ‘Communists’. In conclusion, conditions for regaining a place in the body politic are briefly addressed. The article's focus on ways in which the ethnic and racial same was dehumanized within a democracy on political grounds results from a conscious effort to complement studies of dehumanization as related to colonialism, dictatorial regimes as well as identity politics.

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Contesting and Surviving Memory: Space, Nation, and Nostalgia inLes Lieux de Mémoire

Legg

2005

Environ Plan D

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In this paper I explore the writings of Pierre Nora on lieux de mémoire (realms of memory). Nora's work is a standard reference in geographical writings on memory, yet there are various assumptions in his work that often go unchallenged. An investigation of the concept of nostalgia allows certain levels of yearning to be made clear in Nora's writings. A melancholic nostalgia for ‘real environments of memory’ and for the unifying power of the nation-state pervades this work. However, Nora hints at the possibility for the survival of memory in the body, and for its defence through the mobilisation of counterhistorical narratives. I conclude through using interdisciplinary theories on embodied memory and sites of countermemory to expand the range of spaces in which the memories of a nation might be constructed, contained, and contested.

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The Body

Cited by 6 publications

References 86 publications

The Body as (Another) Place: Producing Embodied Heterotopias Through Tattooing

The Body as (Another) Place: Producing Embodied Heterotopias Through Tattooing

‘homo sacer’ out of left field: communist “slime” as bare life in 1930s and second world war sweden

Contesting and Surviving Memory: Space, Nation, and Nostalgia inLes Lieux de Mémoire

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