Painscapes: Communicating Pain
by EJ Gonzalez-Polledo /
2017 / English / PDF
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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 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.
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.