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Exoskeletal Devices and the Body: Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies book cover

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Exoskeletal Devices and the Body Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies

By Denisa Butnaru Copyright 2024
256 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices. Challenging material boundaries of human bodies, their capacities, (in)abilities and skills, exoskeletal devices question social norms of corporeal “deviance” and “extension.” Through multi-sited ethnography, interviews and analyses of contemporary science and... Read more

1. Introduction: From science fictions to science facts

Part I. Technological objects facing embodied subjects

2. Among bodies, exoskeletons and sites

3. Where exoskeletons aim to enter: Realms of human bodies

Part II. Exoskeletons and their corporeal worlds

4. Impaired bodies

5. Able bodies

Part III. What exoskeletons do to the body: Advancing corporealities

6. New body shapes

7. Reinvesting corporeal capabilities: "Deviance" and "extension" redefined

8. Epilogue: Producing bodies while extending them

Biography

Denisa Butnaru is Deputy Professor of General and Cultural Sociology in the Department of History, Sociology, Empirical Educational Research and Sport Science, University of Konstanz, Germany. Her areas of research are socioanthropology of the body and technology, contemporary developments in phenomenology of the body, and qualitative methodology in the social sciences.

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