Embodied life

A Companion to Social Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 346-361

  Dyck, Isabel ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bodies, embodiment, and geography understanding embodiment, tension rooted in relationship between corporeality of body; Changing places, identities in flux Ray, notes that food practices of migrant cuisine, effect reorientation of hegemonic conceptions of place; Diasporic space, and migrant populations bodies as carriers of "traces of other places"; Embodied life, images promoting goods to improve our looks whether men or women; Geographical imagination, notions of embodied life co constitution of place and subjectivities, spatiality of everyday life; home spaces and care, long term care of frail elderly chronically ill, and disabled in homes; Idea of body practices, involved in constitution social and geographical worlds, theorizations of this "most peculiar thing"; Spaces of cities, bombarded with images and messages about bodies; Understanding the body and its relationship identities and lives, complex intertwining of physicality, ideas, sense of self and notion of "embodied life"; Walking along a city street, engaging in media whether print or visual

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886054744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395211.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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