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    Cochlear Implants: Young Adults’ Embodied Experiences of Deafness and Hearing through Implanted Technology.Anna Chur-Hansen, Susan R. Hemer & Claire Elizabeth Harris - 2023 - Body and Society 29 (1):3-27.
    This article ethnographically considers the experiences of Australian young people who were born deaf and who hear and listen through cochlear implants to explore the intersection between the sensory body, lived experience and technology. The article draws on phenomenology to examine how experiences of deafness are productive in analysing articulations of embodiment and the meanings embedded in a body that is valued as both deaf and hearing. Leaving aside binary conceptions of deaf versus hearing, and understandings of the cochlear implant (...)
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    Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Addiction and Enjoyment.Fredrik Palm - 2023 - Body and Society 29 (1):56-78.
    This article discusses how decentered understandings of addiction might benefit from ongoing debates in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Departing from recent critiques in critical addiction studies, it claims that psychoanalysis offers a framework that both challenges abstract, essentialist ontologies and recognises addiction as a valid phenomenon. Crucial to this framework is a notion of freedom linked to the symbolic break with bodily enjoyment, which, according to Lacan, lies at the origin of the constitution of subjectivity and which neither presupposes the existence of (...)
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    Programming Plasticity as Embodied in Childhood: A Critical Genealogy of The Biology of Adversity and Resilience.Kevin Ryan - 2023 - Body and Society 29 (1):28-55.
    The Biology of Adversity and Resilience coheres around the claim that early childhood experiences of stress and adversity get ‘under the skin’ and become ‘biologically embedded’, increasing the risk of negative health and behavioural outcomes later in life. Taking a genealogical approach to biosocial plasticity, this article situates The Biology of Adversity and Resilience within the arc of an apparatus of power/knowledge that emerged in tandem with liberal governmentality and which assumes childhood as a means of programming the future. The (...)
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    Redefining Bioavailability through Migrant Egg Donors in Spain.Christina Weis & Michal Nahman - 2023 - Body and Society 29 (1):79-109.
    This article utilises feminist technoscience studies’ notions of bodily ‘materialisation’ and ‘ontological choreographies’, offering a cyborg feminist account of ‘bioavailability’ as embodied becomings, rather than a fixed ontological state of being. Drawn from 2 years’ ethnographic study in in vitro fertilisation clinics in Spain with migrant women who provided eggs to the cross-border in vitro fertilisation industry, this work explores how global understandings of race and inequalities, clinical practices and women’s own emotional and physical labours collectively produce bioavailability. Through examples (...)
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