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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963816703321

Autore

Wingard Jennifer <1975->

Titolo

Branded bodies, rhetoric, and the neoliberal nation-state / / Jennifer Wingard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2013

ISBN

979-82-16-27989-1

0-7391-8021-5

1-299-18486-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Collana

Cultural studies/pedagogy/activism

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Human body - Social aspects

Human body - Political aspects

Human body - Symbolic aspects

Neoliberalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-137) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: Othering and Branding; Chapter Two: Branding the Family; Chapter Three: (Dis)Embodying the Branding of Protection; Chapter Four: "José Padilla" and "Osama bin Laden"; Chapter Five: From Branding to Bodies; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Branded Bodies, Rhetoric, and the Neoliberal Nation-State, by Dr. Jennifer Wingard, explores how neoliberal economics has affected the rhetoric of the media and politics, and how in very direct, material ways it harms the bodies of some of the United States' most vulnerable occupants. Wingard explains how the state uses certain bodies that will never be accepted as citizens as an underclass in service of capital, and explores how those underclassed "bodies" are identified through