Every 3-4 weeks I organize a 1,5 hours meeting during which we discuss important and actual theoretical literature pertaining to the meaning of embodiment in health and medicine.
We read chapters and papers from different disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, and disability studies. These meetings are open for all academics (PhD students, (post-doc)researchers) who have an interest in theories on the body and beyond.
These meetings are HYBRID: meeting online through zoom and meeting in person at the Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University.
If you would like to join us, or would like to get more information about our upcoming readings and schedule, please contact me.
Schedule
Spring 2025
Thursday 11-12.30
January 16, 2025
February 6, 2025
February, 27, 2025
March 20, 2025
April, 10, 2025
May 8, 2025
June 6, 2025
June 26, 2025
Readings from the past:
2024
to be added
2023
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2022
to be added
2021
Chapter 2 from Donna Dickenson’s Property in the body: Feminist Perspectives (2007)
Chapter 2 from Donna Dickenson’s ‘Body-shopping’ (2008)
Chapter 5 from Frantz Fannon’ ‘Black skin, white masks’ (originally published in 1952, English translation by Charles Lam Markmann)
Ataria and Tanaka (2020) When body image takes over the body schema: The case of Frantz Fanon. Human Studies
Chapter 1 from Helen Ngo’s ‘The habits of racism. A phenomenology of racism and racialized embodiment’ (2012)
Hardon and colleagues (2019) Sexual and reproductive self care among women and girls: Insights from ethnographic studies. BMJ: 1-4
Hardon and Idrus (2015) Magic power: changing gender dynamics and sex-enhancement practices among youths in Makassar, Indonecia. Anthropology & Medicine 22(1): 49-63
Chadwick (2017) Embodied methodologies: Challenges, reflections and strategies. Qualitative Research 17(1): 54-74
2020
Fuchs and Koch (2014) Embodied affectivity: On moving and being moved. Frontiers in Psychology 5 (article 508): 1-12
Sheets-Johnstone (2018) Why kinesthesia, tactility and affectivity matter: Critical and constructive perspectives. Body and Society 24(4): 3-31
Aho (2013) Depression and embodiment: Phenomenological reflections on motility, affectivity, and transcendence. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16: 751-759
Svenaeus (2013) Depression and the self: Bodily resonance and attuned being-in-the-world. Journal of Consciousness Studies 20(7-8): 15-32
Blease, Carel and Geraghty (2016) Epistemic injustice in healthcare encounters: Evidence from chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Medical Ethics 43: 549-557
Carel and Kidd (2014) Epistemic injustice in healthcare: A philosophical analysis. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 17: 529-540
Chapter 2 from Jean-Luc Nancy’s ‘Corpus’ (1992, translated by Richard A. Rand)
Chapter 3 from Ian James’ ‘The fragmentary demand: An introduction to the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy’ (2006)
Chapters 1 and 2 from Plessner’s ‘Laughing and crying: A study on the limits of human behavior’ (1940, translated by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene in 1970)
Grene (1966) Positionality in the philosophy of Helmuth Plessner. The Review of Metaphysics 20(2): 250-277.
Fausto-Sterling (2019) Gender/Sex, sexual orientation, and identity are in the body: How did they get there? The Journal of Sex Research: 1-27
Arinkha (2019) The interoceptive turn. AEON.co
Leder’s chapter ‘Inside insights: A phenomenology of interoception’ in The interoceptive mind: From homeostasis to awareness (2019, edited by Tsakiris and Preester)
Weiss’ chapter ‘The ‘normal abnormalities’ of disability and aging. Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir’ in Feminist phenomenology futures (2017, edited by Fielding and Olkowki)
Gilleard and Higgs (2015) Aging, embodiment, and the somatic turn. Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2: 17-33
Thomas Heerma van Voss’ novel ‘Condities’ (2020)
Dolezal (2017) The phenomenology of self-representation: Describing the structures of intercorporeality with Erving Goffman. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16: 237-254.
Damian Milton’s paper ‘‘Here comes the trouble’: Autism and gender performance’
Chapter 4 from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ‘The visible and the invisible’ (originally published in 1964, translation in 1968)
Chapter 4 from Sanneke de Haan’s ‘Enactive psychiatry’
Sections from Hanna Arendt’s ‘The human condition’ (second edition 1998)
2019
Introduction and chapter 5 from Susan Oyama’s ‘The ontogeny of information’
Mehling et al. (2009) Body awareness: Construct and self-report measures. PLoS ONE 4(5): e5614
Khoury et al. (2017) Embodied mindfulness. Mindfulness 8: 1160-1171
Chapter 4 from Elizabeth Grosz’ ‘The incorporeal’
Fox (2011) The ill-health assemblage: Beyond the body-with-organs. Health Sociology Review 20(4): 359-371
Groven, Råheim and Engelsrud (2013) Dis-appearance and dys-appearance anew: living with excess skin and intestinal changes following weight loss surgery. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16: 507-523.
Heyes (2018) Two kinds of awareness: Foucault, the will, and freedom in somatic practice. Human Studies 41: 527-544
First and second meditations from Rene Descartes’ (published in 1641)
Excerpt from Rene Descartes’ ‘Treatise on Man’ (written in 1630, published in 1664)
Pinch (2011) Karen Barad, quantum mechanics, and the paradox of mutual exclusivity. Social Studies of Science 41 (3): 431-441
Introduction and chapter 1 from Judith Butler’s ‘Bodies that matter
’Hanna Bervoet’s novel ‘Welkom in het rijk der zieken’ (2019)
Susan Sontag’s ‘Illness as Metaphor’ (1977)
Chapters 6 and 7 from Skof and Berndtson’s ‘Atmospheres of breathing’ (2016
Scheper-Hughes and Lock (1987) The mindful body: A prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1(1): 6-41
Section from Tomkins’ ‘Affect, imagery, consciousness: The positive affects’ (1962)
Jean-Paul Sartre’s ‘The emotions: Outline of a theory’ (1948, translated by Frechtman)
2018
Ian Hacking, “Making up people”
Ian Hacking, “The looping effect of human Kinds”
Ian Hacking, “Madness: Biological or Constructed”, in The Social Construction of What?
Bernard Williams, “The self and the future, from Problems of the Self
Selection of chapters from Annemarie Mol, The body multiple
Michael Jackson (1983). “Knowledge of the Body”, Man, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 327-345
Selection of chapters (1 and 3) from Sarah Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology
Nick Crossley, “Fat is a sociological issue”
Selection of chapters (5 and 6) from Drew Leder’s “The Absent Body”
Chapter 2 from Richard Shusterman’s “Body Consciousness. A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics”
Hubert L. Dreyfus (2002). “Intelligence without representation – Merleau-Ponty’s critique of mental representation”, Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 1, pp 367-383
Sections of Maurice Merleau Ponty’s “Phenomenology of Perception”
Chapter 2 from Drew Leder’s “The Distressed Body”
Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman, “Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain”, in Beyond the Body Proper
Selection of chapters (2 and 4) from Elizabeth Wilson’s “Gut Feminism”
Anne Fausto-Sterling (2005). “The Bare Bones of Sex”, Signs, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp 1491-1527
2017
Chapter 4 from Alva Noë, Out of our Heads
Marc Slors, Léon de Bruin, Derek Strijbos, Introduction and Chapter 1 from Philosophy of Mind, Brain and Behavior
Introduction from Shaun Gallagher & Dan Zahavi, The Phenomenological Mind
Nick Crossley, “Merleau-Ponty, the elusive body and carnal sociology”
Thomas Csordas (1990), “Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology”
Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson (2014), “Intense Embodiment: Senses of Heat in Women’s Running and Boxing”
Jean Grimshaw, “Working out with Merleau-Ponty”
Lakoff and Johnson (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh, chapters 3 & 25
Erwin Straus, “The Upright Posture”
Iris Young, “Throwing like a Girl”
Emily Heavey, “Narrative Bodies, Embodied Narratives”
Havi Carel, “Phenomenology and its application in medicine”
Megan Warin (2014). “Material Feminism, Obesity Science and the Limits of Discursive Critique”
2016
Deborah Lupton “Quantifying the body: Monitoring and measuring health in the age of Health technologies”
Selection of chapters Jenny Edkins Face Politics
Selection of chapters from Stacy Alaimo, Susan Hekamn Material Feminism
Selection of chapters from Rosemary Garland-Thompson Staring
Selection of chapters from Luna Dolezal The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Socially Shaped Body
Anne Pollock “Heart Feminism”
Tim Ingold “When ANT meets SPIDER”
Tim Ingold “Footprints through the weather-world”
Tim Ingold “Culture on the ground”
Lesley Sharp “The invisible woman: The bioaesthetics of engineered bodies”
Dawn Goodwin “Reshaping bodies, reshaping agency”
Stefan Hirschauer “The manufacture of bodies in surgery”
Lucie Dalibert “Living with spinal cord stimulation: Doing embodiment and incorporation”
Laura Mamo & Jennifer Ruth Fosket “Scripting the body: Pharmaceuticals and the (re)making of menstruation”
Deborah Lynn Steinberg “The bad patient: Estranged subjects of the cancer culture”
Kari Nyheim Solbraekke & Hilde Bondevik “Absent organs-present selves”
Jackie Leah Scully “Disability and the Thinking Body”
Before 2016
Daniel Black “What is a Face?”
Bernadette Wegenstein and Nora Ruck “Physiognomy, Reality Television and the Cosmetic Gaze”
Selection of chapters from James Aho and Kevin Aho A phenomenology of sickness, disease and illness
Max van Manen “Modalities of Body Experience in Illness and Health”
Selection of chapters from Lisa Blackman Immaterial Bodies
Selection of papers from Margaret Lock & Judith Farquhar (ed). Beyond the body proper
Selection of chapters from Sarah Ahmed Queer Phenomenology
Selection of chapters from Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception
Selection of chapters from Don Ihde Technology and the lifeworld
Selection of chapters from Chris Shilling The body and social theory
Annemarie Mol The Body Multiple
Nick Crossley The Social Body: Habit, Identity and Desire
Jackie Stacey Teratologies. A Cultural study of Cancer
Arthur Frank, The wounded story-teller
Nelly Oudshoorn “Sustaining cyborgs”