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Embodied Biographies, Virtual Bodies
Embodied Biographies, Virtual Bodies
Wednesday, 13 July 2016: 09:00-10:30
Location: Seminarraum Geschichte 1 (Main Building)
RC38 Biography and Society (host committee) Language: English
Biographical research has not paid much attention to the ways complex forms of border crossing and transnationality shape people’s embodied experiences. Moreover, the introduction and development of new social media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) have opened the field to the study of embodied biographies to include the biographical construction of virtual bodies.
We seek papers that consider connections between bodies and biographical practices from individual accounts to the social structural and historical processes within which these practices take place. We are especially interested in extending the conceptual and empirical reach of the field of biographical research to interrogate how biographies are constructed in ways that attend to the role of both embodiment and transnationality in people’s life stories. Topics of interest include:
- institutional contexts in which identities are inscribed in/on the body (medicine, prisons);
- the embodied traces of homelands, border crossings and remittances in the life stories of refugees and migrants;
- the construction of embodied communities (transgender, intersex, body modification) and political movements (FEM, Pussy Riot).
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