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Autore: |
Wingard Jennifer <1975->
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Titolo: |
Branded bodies, rhetoric, and the neoliberal nation-state [[electronic resource] /] / Jennifer Wingard
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Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (163 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.4 |
Soggetto topico: | Human body - Social aspects |
Human body - Political aspects | |
Human body - Symbolic aspects | |
Neoliberalism | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Branded bodies, rhetoric, and the neoliberal nation-state ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-7391-8021-5 |
1-299-18486-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910452280603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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