Weighing Posthumanism: Fatness and Contested Humanity

Our project on fatness begins by turning attention to the multiple cultural instances in which fatness has been intrinsically linked with notions such as self—neglect and poor self—management. In Foucauldian terms, we analyse the fat subject as a failed homo economicus, an individual who has failed...

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Authors: Apostolidou, Sofia (Author) ; Sturm, Jules (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cogitatio Press 2016
In: Social Inclusion
Year: 2016, Volume: 4, Issue: 4, Pages: 150-159
Further subjects:B prosthesis
B fat studies
B Biopolitics
B Posthumanism
B Disability studies
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