Understanding Moral Empathy: A Verbatim‐Theatre Supported Phenomenological Exploration of the Empathy Imperative

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilshan Pieris ◽  
Hartley Jafine ◽  
Shane Neilson ◽  
Ellen Amster ◽  
Joyce Zazulak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Verbatim Theatre ◽  
Phenomenological Exploration

Impact of Eve Teasing on Men and Women in Bangalore: A Phenomenological Exploration

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Aakhansha Varghese ◽  
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Neha Parashar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Men And Women ◽  
Eve Teasing ◽  
Phenomenological Exploration

scholarly journals Mobilizing the Sense of “Fat”: A Phenomenological Materialist Approach

Human Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Slatman
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Fat Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
Fat Bodies ◽  
The Way ◽  
Phenomenological Exploration

AbstractThis paper aims to mobilize the way we think and write about fat bodies while drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy of the body. I introduce Nancy’s approach to the body as an addition to contemporary new materialism. His philosophy, so I argue, offers a form of materialism that allows for a phenomenological exploration of the body. As such, it can help us to understand the lived experiences of fat embodiment. Additionally, Nancy’s idea of the body in terms of a “corpus”—a collection of pieces without a unity—together with his idea of corpus-writing—fragmentary writing, without head and tail—can help us to mobilize fixed meanings of fat. To apply Nancy’s conceptual frame to a concrete manifestation of fat embodiment, I provide a reading of Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger (2017). In my analysis, I identify how the materiality of fat engenders the meaning of embodiment, and how it shapes how a fat body can and cannot be a body. Moreover, I propose that Gay’s writing style—hesitating and circling – involves an example of corpus-writing. The corpus of corpulence that Gay has created gives voice to the precariousness of a fat body's materialization.

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