Social Bodies & Social Justice

Lewis, S; Thomson, M

Social Bodies & Social Justice

Lewis, S Thomson, M

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Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: International Journal of Law in Context, 2019, 15 (3), pp. 344 - 361
Issue Date:: 2019-04-02

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dc.contributor.author	Lewis, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Thomson, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1570-2481	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-04-02	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	International Journal of Law in Context, 2019, 15 (3), pp. 344 - 361	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1744-5523	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132964
dc.description.abstract	This article identifies, and engages with, the social bodies emerging by virtue of the biosocial turn in the life sciences and the contemporaneous advent of embodied approaches to social justice. Across diverse domains, then, bodies are increasingly understood as shaped by and dependent upon their environments. To explore this potentially important and productive convergence, we bring Martha Fineman’s vulnerability theory into conversation with developmental neuroscience and environmental epigenetics. We foreground significant intersecting concerns and argue that vulnerability theory is strengthened by engaging with a richer understanding of embodiment that attends to these new biosocial knowledge claims. This engagement can enhance the political traction of this and other embodied theories. These can, in turn, provide important alternatives to the neoliberal lens through which neuroscience and epigenetics have hitherto been translated into policy and practice. Exploring this new terrain, we nevertheless acknowledge the limitations and dangers posed by current biopolitical governance practices.	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge University Press	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	International Journal of Law in Context	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1017/S1744552319000053	en_US
dc.title	Social Bodies & Social Justice	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

This article identifies, and engages with, the social bodies emerging by virtue of the biosocial turn in the life sciences and the contemporaneous advent of embodied approaches to social justice. Across diverse domains, then, bodies are increasingly understood as shaped by and dependent upon their environments. To explore this potentially important and productive convergence, we bring Martha Fineman’s vulnerability theory into conversation with developmental neuroscience and environmental epigenetics. We foreground significant intersecting concerns and argue that vulnerability theory is strengthened by engaging with a richer understanding of embodiment that attends to these new biosocial knowledge claims. This engagement can enhance the political traction of this and other embodied theories. These can, in turn, provide important alternatives to the neoliberal lens through which neuroscience and epigenetics have hitherto been translated into policy and practice. Exploring this new terrain, we nevertheless acknowledge the limitations and dangers posed by current biopolitical governance practices.

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