Geographies of Embodiment

Kirsten Simonsen is Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research concerns issues of philosophy of geography, Nordic geography, spatial conceptualizations, urban theory and everyday practices, and the living of racialized Others in contemporary European Cities. Lasse Koefoed is Associate Professor at the Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark, and is well known within Critical Geography. His research interests relate to urban geographies, cities and ethnic minorities, nation and nationalism, postcolonialism, cross-cultural encounters and everyday life.

Introduction Chapter 1. Figuring the ground a. What is critical phenomenology b. Critical phenomenology as a 'New Humanism' Chapter 2. Bodies and embodiment a. Thinking the body b. Embodied Identities c. The temporality and spatiality of the body (including case '(re)scaling identities) d. Affectivity and emotions Chapter 3. Encountering the Other a. The concept of encounter b. Different modes of encounter c. Collective planned encounters d. Encounters with authorities e. Banal everyday encounters Chapter 4. Urban Perspectives a. The Flesh of the urban b. The urban as a world of strangers c. From invisibility to visibility: Opening of a purpose-built mosque in Copenhagen Chapter 5: Political Perspectives a. Everyday politics b. Everyday nationalism e. Politics of hospitality