ABSTRACT
The challenge of developing non-dualist approaches that can do justice to all the entangled processes (human and more-than-human) which shape bodily matters remains a central one for scholars interested in the body and embodiment, as authors will explore throughout the book. This includes issues related to the experience of disembodiment, death, disability, queer bodies and performativity, animal studies, indeterminate bodies, and racialization and bodily matters. This chapter focuses on feminist-inspired work, work on class, racialization, disability, trans and queer studies, as well as landmark and classic studies on difference as it is lived and enacted in different milieu and settings. It explores traditions on the lived body that have a long history within body studies, as the field intersects with the anthropology of the body, the medical humanities, sociology of the body, sensory studies, disability studies, crip theory, and cultural studies of health and illness.
