Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place

by Nirmal Puwar

Overview

This groundbreaking book interrogates the pernicious, subtle but nonetheless widely held view that certain bodies are naturally entitled to certain positions of power, while others are not

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859736548
Publisher:	Berg Publishers
Publication date:	09/15/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Nirmal Puwar is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology, University College Northampton. She is the co-editor of South Asian Women in the Diaspora, and Fashion Theory: Volume 7 Issue 3-4, a special double issue on Orientalism (Berg Publishers, 2003).

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Somatic Norm * Foreign Bodies * Disorienting States, of Men and Empire * Occupying Space * (In)Visible Bodies * Performative Rites: Ill-fitting Suits * The Civility of Language: Bourdieu meets Fanon * Seeing the Invisible