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Title: BODIES OF NATURE
By: Phil Macnaghten (Editor), Professor John Urry (Editor)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0761973354
ISBN 13: 9780761973355
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Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Pub. date: 15 August, 2001
Series: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Pages: 208
Description: This book examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. It is therefore part of the deep-seated `turn towards the body', which has been such a pronounced feature of sociology in the last two decades. The book argues that bodies in nature are subject to novel, complex and contradictory opportunities of freedom and escape, surveillance and monitoring, and guides readers through the various ways in which these bodily opportunities and constraints are temporally and spatially organized and managed.
Synopsis: This book examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. It is therefore part of the deep-seated 'turn towards the body'. However, it is partly critical of this development in as much as it affirms thatthe sociology of the body has downplayed the extent to which the body is located in, and involved with, nature, the countryside, the outdoors, landscape and wilderness.The book argues that bodies in nature are subject to novel, complex and contradictory opportunities of freedom and escape, surveillance and monitoring. The book guides readers through the various ways in which these bodily opportunities and constraints are temporally and spatially organized and managed.
Publication: US
Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
Returns: Returnable
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