Geographies of Embodiment: Critical Phenomenology and the World of Strangers (Society and Space)

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. Contents About the Authors Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Figuring the Ground 2 Bodies and Embodiment 3 Encountering the Other 4 Urban Perspectives 5 Political Perspectives References Index