Overview
- Brings together interdisciplinary contributions from the social sciences, humanities visual and performing arts
- Posits that pain is not just a sensation inside the body or limited to one individual but is an experience that is expressed and emergent via different frameworks and devices of communication
- Examines how chronic pain is expressed and communicated
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About this book
This book brings into dialogue approaches from anthropology, sociology, visual art, theatre, and literature to question what kinds of relations, frames and politics constitute pain across disciplines and methodologies. Each chapter offers a unique window onto the notoriously difficult problem of how pain is defined and communicated. The contributors reimagine the value of images and photography, poetry, history, drama, stories and interviews, not as ‘better’ representations of the pain experience, but as devices to navigate the complexity of pain across different physical, social, and intersubjective domains.
This innovative collection provides a new access point to the phenomenon of pain and the materialities, affects, structures and institutions that constitute it. This book will appeal to readers seeking to better understand pain’s complexity and the social and affective ecologies through which pain is known, communicated and lived.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
EJ Gonzalez-Polledo is Lecturer in the department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Jen Tarr is Assistant Professor of Research Methodology in the Department of Methodology at the LSE, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Painscapes
Book Subtitle: Communicating Pain
Editors: EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Jen Tarr
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95272-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95271-7Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95781-1Published: 28 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95272-4Published: 13 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 254
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Sociology, Knowledge - Discourse, Sociology of the Body, Communication Studies