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Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all.
In this line of thinking, a fat life is framed as failure, and a
fast track towards death itself. Meanwhile, the histories of modern
fat existence, communities, activists, and artists have been
essentially unknown, written out of origins and existence. Most
medical and cultural evaluations of fat have rendered the fat body
more and more visible, and yet the lived experiences of fat people
are continually erased. At a moment when scholars from various
disciplines are contending with the question of who has a future,
this book explores the relationship between fat experience and the
social construction of time. The works in this volume draw from
fields as diverse as social geography, women and gender studies,
critical race theory, disability studies, cultural studies, visual
art and craft, social work, communication studies, and queer
theory, generating renewed understandings of the relationship
between fatness and temporality. The Future Is Fat reimagines
understandings of time to allow for new expressions of fat
experience. The chapters in this book were originally published as
a special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Body Weight and Society.
Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all.
In this line of thinking, a fat life is framed as failure, and a
fast track towards death itself. Meanwhile, the histories of modern
fat existence, communities, activists, and artists have been
essentially unknown, written out of origins and existence. Most
medical and cultural evaluations of fat have rendered the fat body
more and more visible, and yet the lived experiences of fat people
are continually erased. At a moment when scholars from various
disciplines are contending with the question of who has a future,
this book explores the relationship between fat experience and the
social construction of time. The works in this volume draw from
fields as diverse as social geography, women and gender studies,
critical race theory, disability studies, cultural studies, visual
art and craft, social work, communication studies, and queer
theory, generating renewed understandings of the relationship
between fatness and temporality. The Future Is Fat reimagines
understandings of time to allow for new expressions of fat
experience. The chapters in this book were originally published as
a special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Body Weight and Society.
Whereas biomedical and feminist literature treat abortion,
miscarriage, and stillbirth as differently conceptualized events,
this collection explores the connections between these three
categories. How have feminist debates and strategies around
reproductive choice invigorated the cultural conversation about
miscarriage and stillbirth? How can we imagine more nuanced
engagements with the spectrum of experiences that are at stake when
a pregnancy ends? And how can we effectively create a space where
pregnant people contend with the ways that loss makes meaning for
those who grieve and/or celebrate the end of pregnancy? This
collection centres pregnancy loss as an embodied and social
phenomenon within a framework that understands pregnancy as a
process with no guaranteed outcomes. Interrogating Pregnancy Loss
considers pregnancy as an epistemic source, one that has the
capacity to reveal the limits of our collective assumptions about
temporality, expectation, narrative, and social legitimacy. By
interrogating loss, this collection argues that the lessons learned
from loss have the capacity to serve our collective understandings
of both the expected and unexpected rhythms of social and
reproductive life.
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global
Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly
interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our
understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine
whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after the election
of the first black U.S. president, post-global financial crisis,
more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of
xenophobic incidents across the globe, the book distills several
key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness: the
individual and collective emotions of whiteness, the recentering of
whiteness through governing and legal strategies, and the retreats
from social equity and justice that have characterized the late
twentieth and twenty-first century nation state. It also attempts
the difficult work of reimagining white identities and cultures for
a new era. Chapters in Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First
Century draw from the fields of African-American studies, English
studies, media studies, philosophy, political science, psychology,
sociology, education, and women's studies. Using
transdisciplinarity as a mode of inquiry for the project and
responding to the changing phenomenon of whiteness across several
continents (Australia, Canada, France, Romania, South Africa,
Sweden, and the United States), the collection brings together
established and emerging scholars and a range of critical
approaches to unveil and intervene in the ideologies of whiteness
in our contemporary moment. Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First
Century demonstrates that complex inquiry and activism are needed
to challenge new iterations of whiteness in twenty-first-century
political and social spaces.
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