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Repairing, restoring or refining bodies I 
Convenors:
Kristofer Hansson (Malmö University)
Andréa Wiszmeg (Malmö University)
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Chairs:
Kristofer Hansson (Malmö University)
Andréa Wiszmeg (Malmö University)
Format:
Panel
Stream:
BASE (Bodies, Affects, Senses, Emotions)
:
Room H-209
Sessions:
Thursday 16 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Do we go back when we repair or restore the body and forward when we refine it - and who gets to decide? These issues are relevant to folkloristics and ethnology studying the body in e.g. medicine, psychiatry and disability. This panel welcomes empirical as well as theoretical contributions.

Long Abstract:

When are bodies being repaired or restored - and when are bodies being refined? Repairing or restoring is often defined as going back to a previous state, or making up for something that has been lost - while refining is rather associated with improvement or upgrading. On surface level, the difference seems obvious. Still, what is considered normal or base line is normatively and politically negotiated, and therefore fluid and ever changing. These has been significant topics in folkloristics and ethnology for several decades. But new theories in social sciences and humanities as well as new emerging technologies make imprints in e.g. biomedicine, personalized medicine, psychiatry and dis-/ability studies, through practices like biohacking or a posthumanist view. This calls for rethinking our methods and theories. As the state of normality in society is something usually defined on a communal basis and not on a personal - the distinctions, the motives behind them and their applications and consequences, become even more difficult - if not impossible - to disentangle. This panel is nonetheless dedicated to doing just that: discussing and dealing with who and what decides and defines what is repaired or restored, and what is refined when it comes to the body? The panel welcomes ethnographical and empirical as well as philosophical and theoretical contributions drawing on the present as well as the past.

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Session 1 Thursday 16 June, 2022, -
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