Summary
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Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about “otherness” and “encounter” which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city. It situates these arguments in a wider political context, looking at power-relations through case studies at urban, national and transnational scales. These arguments are situated across disciplinary boundaries, at the borderline between between philosophy and social science that is associated to critical phenomenology, and reaches across Human Geography, Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Urban Studies.
Introduction
Introduction
Before producing effects in the material realm (tool and objects), before producing itself by drawing nourishment from that realm, and before reproducing itself by generating other bodies, each living body is space and has its space: it produces itself in space and it also produces that space. (Lefebvre, 1991a: 170)
The aim of this book is to argue for an approach to social life and the production of space based on an understanding of space as genuinely embodied space. From a practice-orientated re-reading of phenomenology, it will explore the relationship between bodily practices, socio-cultural encounters and spatial formations rooted in what we will embark upon as a critical phenomenology. We shall return to this term in our first chapter and now just say that we ...
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