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Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect: Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability book cover

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Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability

By Britta Timm Knudsen, Carsten Stage Copyright 2015
180 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge
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Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect shows how mediations of bodily vulnerability have become a strong political force in contemporary societies. In discussions and struggles concerning war involvement, healthcare issues, charity, democracy movements, contested national pasts, and climate change, performances of bodily vulnerability is increasingly used by citizens to raise awareness, create... Read more

Introduction  1. Illness Blogs and Online Crowding  2. Global Assemblages of Suffering and Protest  3. Charity, Seduction, and Productive Publics  4. Green Activist Bodies and the Sublime 5. War Commemoration and Affective Media Rhythms 6. Media Witnessing from Chora  Epilogue

Biography

Britta Timm Knudsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Aesthetics and Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her previous books include Enterprising Initiatives in the Experience Economy (co-ed, Routledge 2014), Re-investing Authenticity, Tourism, Place and Emotions (co-ed, 2009).

Carsten Stage is Associate Professor in the Department of Aesthetics and Communication, ARTS at Aarhus University, Denmark. His previous publications include "Online a-liveness" in Mediating and Re-Mediating Death (2014) and "Contagious bodies" (co-authored with Knudsen) in Emotion, Space and Society. He is co-editor of Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation.

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