Insecure bodies/selves: introduction to theme section |
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Authors: | Chris Philo |
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Affiliation: | School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK, christopher.philo@glasgow.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | This short piece introduces a three-paper theme section on the theme of ‘Insecure bodies/selves’, growing out of a conference session held in 2012. Using the brief example of a brain-injured soldier's ‘shattered world’, creating a thoroughly ‘unsecured’ self/body, attention is given to how contemporary human geography has gradually opened itself to engaging with the multiple spaces of insecure bodies/selves. The three papers are then formally outlined and situated within these new currents of geographical and trans-disciplinary scholarship. |
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Keywords: | bodies selves bodies/selves security insecurity |
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