Impolitic bodies and the body impolitic
The “global hierarchy of value’ is the cultural instrument of colonial cultural domination and its aftermath, assigning entire countries to putative status levels established and maintained by the major powers; the example of Greece is especially suggestive of this dynamic. Individual bodies as well...
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2026
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | The “global hierarchy of value’ is the cultural instrument of colonial cultural domination and its aftermath, assigning entire countries to putative status levels established and maintained by the major powers; the example of Greece is especially suggestive of this dynamic. Individual bodies as well as local populations reproduce the resulting inequalities at multiple, nested levels. While the anthropological focus on human bodies has been a welcome and necessary move, this model encourages more scalar exploration of the reciprocal interaction of human bodily experience with the various civic entities in which it is enmeshed. By thereby discovering the institutional “civil disability’ that such “bodies impolitic” encounter and resist, we can track the complex tension between the statist vision of the body politic and the bodies impolitic that resist and refashion its values and identities. |
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