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1477-0881, 1474-4740

2022 ◽  
pp. 147447402110680
Author(s):  
Laura Kemmer ◽  
Wladimir Sgibnev ◽  
Tonio Weicker ◽  
Maxwell Woods

Developing thoughts on exposure in cultural geography, literary studies, and mobilities research, this article aims to provide a more comprehensive account towards the publicness of public space. What would happen if we assessed publicness not by degrees of openness and inclusion, but through the nexus of vulnerability and complicity that is fundamental to the notion of exposure? To grasp such an intrinsic dualism, our perspective goes towards public transport, where experiences of exposure are intensified by its specific conditions of encapsulation and movement. We illustrate this perspective drawing from the autobiographical chronicles of the Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel, in order to then propose a ‘learning from’ the case of public transport for a rethinking of publicness. Specifically, we argue that exposure provides new insights on agency, power and vulnerability as part of a more processual notion of public space.


2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110650
Author(s):  
Siew Ying Shee

This paper develops a more-than-representational approach to consumer agency in food biopolitics that is sensitive to people’s everyday eating experiences. In recent years, studies of food biopolitics have engaged with questions of agency by examining how socially constructed ideas of ‘good’ eating and citizenship are engaged on the ground. Yet, there remain opportunities to depart from the evaluative mind as a dominant site of ethical self-formation, and engage with the body as a site of political action and agency. In this paper, I argue that people’s sense of citizen selves has long been, and continue to be, organised across the interplay of material, discursive, and visceral spaces of eating. I develop this argument by drawing on a critical analysis of historical and contemporary news forums related to public eating in Singapore. For many consumers, their disdain for certain food—ranging from the erstwhile state-vaunted meal plans to leftover food on public dining tables—express an embodied agency in negotiating the technocratic designs of citizenship. In developing a visceral biopolitics of eating, this paper aims to expand understandings of consumers’ capacity in negotiating the ethical tensions between hegemonic imaginings of ‘good’ citizens and the everyday pleasures of eating. Approaching consumer agency this way orientates critical yet oft-overlooked attention to the body’s capacity to act, and possibly effect change, within the broader workings of dietary bio-power.


2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-161
Author(s):  
Jacob C. Miller ◽  
Kahina Meziant

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110575
Author(s):  
Jiaying Sim

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110589
Author(s):  
Dydia DeLyser ◽  
Harriet Hawkins ◽  
Anna Secor ◽  
Matt Wilson

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110579
Author(s):  
Caleb Johnston ◽  
Jamie Winders

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