LEADER 04696nam 22006735 450 001 9910580139603321 005 20230810175350.0 010 $a9783031062742$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031062735 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-06274-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7029028 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7029028 035 $a(CKB)24148424100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-06274-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924148424100041 100 $a20220702d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBiopolitics of Swimming and the Re-articulation of Able-Bodiedness $eBodies of Latent Potential /$fby Touko Vaahtera 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (135 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Vaahtera, Touko Biopolitics of Swimming and the Re-Articulation of Able-Bodiedness Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031062735 327 $a1 Introduction: Re-articulation of Able-Bodiedness -- 2 Bodies of Latent Potential -- 3 Miscellaneous Ambitions around the Fit Citizenship: Genealogy of the Ability to Swim -- 4 The Real Body and the Repressive Hypothesis of the Body -- 5 Able-Bodied Belonging: Human Beings as Part of the Animal World -- 6 Epilogue. . 330 $a"This wonderfully written book subjects swimming to a much-needed queer and disability analysis. Vaahtera asks us to reconsider the innocence of the question- can you swim?-and to explore together wider societal assumptions that we hold over ourselves and others associated with capacity, capability, and ability." -Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education, University of Sheffield, UK "Tackling urgent questions regarding the biopolitics of transnational and local bodily 'capabilities,' Touko Vaahtera challenges us to examine how we oriented towards able-bodiedness. Focusing on a wide range of cultural texts, and challenging what we might understand as both culture and text, this book offers a queercrip methodology for analysing the intersectional politics of embodied, collective living. It opens up how we read, understand and experience collective bodily norms and their contexts, whilst offering specifically queercrip ways of imagining alternative modes of being." -Donna McCormack, School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde, Scotland In this book, Touko Vaahtera explores how "bodies of latent potential," a cultural attachment to the idea of body as potentiality, carries with it hierarchizing hopes about better bodies. Vaahtera combines disability studies, cultural studies, feminist science studies, transgender studies, post-colonial studies, and Foucauldian genealogy to offer a provocative approach that interrogates capacities and capabilities as obvious frameworks for thinking about the body. Vaahtera explores how swimming skills emerged as a specific biopolitical question in Finland, a country that has been described as the "Land of a Thousand Lakes." Through a profound cultural analysis focusing both on Finnish cultural texts on swimming as well as manifold more globalized texts, Vaahtera considers how the legacy of eugenics and colonialism, the hopes of civilization, and homogenizing assumptions about bodies frame how we think about human capacity. Touko Vaahtera is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. They are the editor of Troubling Educational Cultures in the Nordic Countries (2017). . 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aCritical theory 606 $aSex 606 $aFeminism 606 $aFeminist theory 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aSocial Philosophy 606 $aCritical Theory 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aFeminism and Feminist Theory 606 $aCultural Studies 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aCritical theory. 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aFeminism. 615 0$aFeminist theory. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 14$aSocial Philosophy. 615 24$aCritical Theory. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aFeminism and Feminist Theory. 615 24$aCultural Studies. 676 $a306.4613 676 $a362.4 700 $aVaahtera$b Touko$01250469 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910580139603321 996 $aBiopolitics of Swimming and the Re-Articulation of Able-Bodiedness$92898056 997 $aUNINA