Somatic States

On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity

Franck Billé (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2849-9 (ISBN)

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In Somatic States, Franck BillÉ examines the conceptual link between the nation-state and the body, particularly the visceral and affective attachment to the state and the symbolic significance of its borders. BillÉ argues that corporeal analogies to the nation-state are not simply poetic or allegorical but reflect a genuine association of the individual body with the national outline-an identification greatly facilitated by the emergence of the national map. BillÉ charts the evolution of cartographic practices and the role that political maps have played in transforming notions of territorial sovereignty. He shows how states routinely and effectively mobilize corporeal narratives, such as framing territorial loss through metaphors of dismemberment and mutilation. Despite the current complexity of geopolitics and neoliberalism, BillÉ demonstrates that corporeality and bodily metaphors remain viscerally powerful because they offer a seemingly simple way to apprehend the abstract nature of the nation-state.

Franck BillÉ is Program Director of the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor of Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I.
1. Cartographic Revolutions 29
2. The Goddess, the Book, and the Square 60
Part II.
3. Territorial Phantom Pains 103
4. Epidermic States 137
5. Archipelagoes, Enclaves, and Other Cartographic Monsters 163
Coda. Beyond the Map? 192
Notes 205
Bibliography 263
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.02.2025
Zusatzinfo	35 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-2849-1 / 1478028491
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2849-9 / 9781478028499
Zustand	Neuware