Tagged: bodies

By Luna Dolezal Social distancing has dislodged all human bodies from the usual taken-for-granted fabric of embodied social relations, leading to a repertoire of interaction rituals that are increasingly dominated by fear and mistrust. In this article, I explore some of the experiential consequences of social distancing, considering face-to-face interaction and interactions mediated by telepresence […]

By Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal During the COVID-19 crisis,  metaphors of “saving face”, and its corollary “losing face”, have emerged as motivating forces that explain the policy decisions of some nation states and organizations. However, an Orientalist tendency to associate “face saving” with Asian countries has led to a pseudo division between countries that rationally […]

By Gemma Lucas Within my wider project on well-being and gendered body shame, I am preparing a series of short essays exploring  the reconfiguration of bodily capacities and body-geographies during the pandemic, as the use well shaming rhetoric, its relationship to neoliberalism, and its impact on social inequality. Further information: Link