Biopolitics of swimming and the re-articulation of able-bodiedness : bodies of latent potential

Biopolitics of swimming and the re-articulation of able-bodiedness : bodies of latent potential / Touko Vaahtera.

"This wonderfully written book subjects swimming to a much-needed queer and disability analysis. Vaahtera asks us to reconsider the innocence of the question can you swim?and to explore together wider societal assumptions that we hold over ourselves and others associated with capacity, capabili...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaahtera, Touko (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Subjects:
Sociology of disability.
Body image > Philosophy.
Biopolitics.
Swimming > Social aspects > Finland.
Swimming > Political aspects > Finland.
Biopolitics
Sociology of disability
Swimming > Social aspects
Finland
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: Re-articulation of Able-Bodiedness
  • 2 Bodies of Latent Potential
  • 3 Miscellaneous Ambitions around the Fit Citizenship: Genealogy of the Ability to Swim
  • 4 The Real Body and the Repressive Hypothesis of the Body
  • 5 Able-Bodied Belonging: Human Beings as Part of the Animal World
  • 6 Epilogue. .

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