This book examines the embodied nature of people′s experience in, and of, the modern world. It is therefore part of the deep-seated ′turn towards the body′. However, it is partly critical of this development in as much as it affirms that
the sociology of the body has downplayed the extent to which the body is located in, and involved with, nature, the countryside, the outdoors, landscape and wilderness.
The book argues that bodies in nature are subject to novel, complex ...
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Bodies of Nature — Phil Macnaghten and John Urry
Introduction
′Botanizing on the Asphalt′ — Nigel Clark
The Complex Life of Cosmopolitan Bodies
Still Life in the Nearly...
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His main research in recent years has been in advocating and developing a new paradigm for the social sciences, the new mobilities paradigm