Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect: Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability

by Carsten Stage and Britta Timm Knudsen

Book Overview

Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect shows how mediations of bodily vulnerability have become a strong political force in contemporary societies. In discussions and struggles concerning war involvement, healthcare issues, charity, democracy movements, contested national pasts, and climate change, performances of bodily vulnerability is increasingly used by citizens to raise awareness, create sympathy, encourage political action, and to circulate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138548642
• ISBN13: 9781138548640
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"