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Biopolitics of Swimming and the Re-articulation of Able-Bodiedness - Bodies of Latent Potential (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Biopolitics of Swimming and the Re-articulation of Able-Bodiedness - Bodies of Latent Potential (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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In this book, Touko Vaahtera explores how "bodies of latent
potential," a cultural attachment to the idea of body as
potentiality, carries with it hierarchizing hopes about better
bodies. Vaahtera combines disability studies, cultural studies,
feminist science studies, transgender studies, post-colonial
studies, and Foucauldian genealogy to offer a provocative approach
that interrogates capacities and capabilities as obvious frameworks
for thinking about the body. Vaahtera explores how swimming skills
emerged as a specific biopolitical question in Finland, a country
that has been described as the "Land of a Thousand Lakes." Through
a profound cultural analysis focusing both on Finnish cultural
texts on swimming as well as manifold more globalized texts,
Vaahtera considers how the legacy of eugenics and colonialism, the
hopes of civilization, and homogenizing assumptions about bodies
frame how we think about human capacity.
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