Bodies of Information: Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop
- Submitting institution
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University of Winchester
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 34CM5
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367360481
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Bodies of Information is the third collection of essays in the three presented in this REF cycle and derived directly from the VariAbilities conference series. It initiated the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series, co-edited by Chris Mounsey, Stan Booth (University of Winchester) and Madeleine Mant (University of Toronto).
The series aims to act as a nexus for debates about diverse but explicitly interrelated essays about the histories and literatures of bioethical debates from a wide spectrum of disciplines and methodologies, periodic and geographical contexts, interdisciplinary collision spaces, considering the effects of physical and metaphysical environments from factual and fictional spaces.
The Introduction of Bodies of Information adds information streams and genealogy to VariAbility as a way to integrate history into the bioethical debates that the volume and subsequent volumes will express. Chris Mounsey and Stan Booth chose the essays to encompass interdisciplinary bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including osteobiography, final resting place, religious practice, bodily denial, a personal belief system, contradictory images, amputation, art imitating life, famous bodies, professional bodies, physical and figurative bodies, injured bodies, preventative care, therapies, intoxication, reconstructing bodies, embodiment, perception, style, predictable bodies, alluring bodies, reading a variety of types of artifacts from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop.
Mounsey’s essay in the collection concerns the rapper, Nicki Minaj and argues that her songs represent a black experience of a female body, be it feminist or not, which performs black womanhood in a new and clearly contextual way, building on the experiences of Nicki Minaj’s foremothers. It questions the idea that any objective statement can be made convincingly on a popular medium such as Hip Hop.
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- Non-English
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