Somatic states : on cartography, geobodies, bodily integrity / Franck Billé.
| Author/creator | Billé, Franck author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xi, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cartographic revolutions -- The goddess, the boot, and the square -- Territorial phantom pains -- Epidermic states -- Archipelagoes, enclaves, and other cartographic monsters -- Coda. Beyond the map? |
| Abstract | "At the intersection of anthropology, political geography, and cultural studies, Somatic States is a study of the affective force of mapping. It focuses on the outside attention that large countries such as India, Russia and China expend defending relatively small pieces of territory (such as Kashmir or China's territorial extension into the South China Sea), and specifically their insistence on the cartographic representation of their dominion over these territories, even when the political geography is less clear. Franck Billé argues that cultural representations of the nation-state are undergirded and sustained by corporeal analogies, and that the identification of the nation with the body has been greatly facilitated by the emergence of the national map. Moving from radial power in the medieval period, in which authority was based on networks of patronage and fealty, to the modern nation state, defined through a boundary around homogenous interior space, the cultural imaginary of the nation state depends both on modern cartographic technologies and the displacement of the body of the sovereign to the body of the nation"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Billé, Franck. Somatic states. Durham : Duke University Press, 2025 9781478060703 |
| LCCN | 2024041565 |
| ISBN | 9781478031727 |
| ISBN | 1478031727 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781478028499 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1478028491 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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