Body & Society- Volume: 23, Number: 1 (March 2017)

Articles

Architecture of Sensation
Mark Paterson
Mark Paterson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has conducted research on the use of haptic technologies within museums, the role of haptics in human–robotic interaction (HRI), and the role of the bodily senses within ethnographic fieldwork. He is the author of The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (2007), Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch after Descartes (2016), and co-edited Touching Place, Spacing Touch (2012). Research for this article will be part of his next book project, How We Became Sensorimotor: Mapping Movement and Modernity.

Self-tracking in the Digital Era
Rachel Sanders
Rachel Sanders is an assistant professor of Political Science at Portland State University. Her research interests are in biopower, critical race studies, feminist theory, popular culture, and health and body politics. Her work has appeared in Law, Culture and the Humanities and Political Theory. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled The Color of Fat, the Shape of Power: Racial and Gender Biopolitics of Obesity.

Wireless Heart Patients and the Quantified Self
Julie Christina Grew, Mette Nordahl Svendsen
Julie Christina Grew holds an MSc in Public Health and a PhD from the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests lie in medical and telecare technology, patient–technology–society relations, and chronic patient care, particularly how patients, healthcare professionals, and technology mutually shape each other in clinical practice and patients’ everyday lives. The research that the article is based on is part of her PhD dissertation, which was defended in September 2015.

Mette Nordahl Svendsen is an anthropologist, associate professor and head of Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research centres on what the human becomes in the light of new advances in medical science and technology. In particular she takes an interest in how relationships, boundaries, and exchanges between human and animal are practised in the interface between laboratory, clinic, and patient lives. She has published extensively on these issues in anthropological, sociological and STS journals.

Notes & Commentary

The Phenomenology of Architecture
Tomoko Tamari
Tomoko Tamari is a lecturer in the Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship and member of the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is managing editor of Body & Society (Sage). Her long-standing research interests focus on consumer culture in Japan and Japanese new women, which will be discussed in her forthcoming book entitled, Women and Consumer Culture: The Department Store, Modernity and Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-century Japan (Routledge). She has recently published ‘Metabolism: Utopian urbanism and the Japanese modern architecture movement’ (Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 31 (7–8)). She is currently working in the following areas: body image and prosthetic aesthetics, Olympic culture and cities; human perception and the moving image; probiotics and immunity.

Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa
Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, professor emeritus, Helsinki. Practised design first in collaboration with other architects, and since 1983 through his office in Helsinki. He has held positions such as Rector of the Institute of Industrial Design Helsinki, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, and Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, and several visiting professorships in the USA, and taught and lectured extensively in numerous universities in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury 2008–14.