Embodied Action, Embodied Theory: Understanding the Body in Society
special issue of Societies, edited by dr. Jaqueline Low and prof.dr. Claudia Malacrida
This special issue of Societies, called "Embodied Action, Embodied Theory: Understanding the Body in Society", follows the ISA World Forum on "The Body in the Social Sciences" to be held in Buenos Aries Aug 1-4, 2012, but is also open to submissions of papers not presented at the Forum. This special issue focuses on the interconnectedness of the body and society, thus it will include works that explore how the body is shaped by and constrained through socio-cultural processes, as well as those that focus on how bodies in action affect the societies in which they operate. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the connections between the lived body and the body as a set of social experiences, insights into the body as a site of social control, and examinations of the body as a vehicle for the expression and consumption of culture.