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Lupton incorporates the very latest current critical scholarship and research offered in the humanities and social sciences on fat embodiment and fat politics. The volume is a lively, at times provocative introduction for the general reader, as well as for students and academics interested in the politics of embodiment and health.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296495448437,"sku":"9781138493049","price":155.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781138493049_407a71bc-4a37-4b80-90f7-dc0ab75f32a2.jpg?v=1786018007"},{"product_id":"9781509500604","title":"The Quantified Self","description":"With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.  In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood and human embodiment and the value of the data that underpin them.  The book incorporates discussion of the consolations and frustrations of self-tracking, as well as about the proliferating ways in which people's personal data are now used beyond their private rationales. Lupton outlines how the information that is generated through self-tracking is taken up and repurposed for commercial, governmental, managerial and research purposes. In the relationship between personal data practices and big data politics, the implications of self-tracking are becoming ever more crucial.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301828637045,"sku":"9781509500604","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781509500604_8f078bd8-d72f-4442-8d95-efaa0af9d90c.jpg?v=1786022265"},{"product_id":"9781509536429","title":"Data Selves – More–than–Human Perspectives","description":"As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed and exploited by third parties.    Using rich examples from popular culture and empirical research, Deborah Lupton develops a fresh and intriguing perspective on how people make sense of and use their personal data, and what they know about others who use this information. Drawing on feminist new materialism theory and the anthropology of material culture, she acknowledges the importance of paying attention to embodied experiences, as well as discourses and ideas, in identifying the ways in which people make and enact data, and data make and enact people. Arguing that personal data are more-than-human phenomena, invested with diverse forms of vitalities, Lupton reveals significant implications for data futures, politics and ethics.    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Adopting an international perspective informed by social theory, \u003cem\u003eThe Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis\u003c\/em\u003e offers an intriguing and original investigation of the social, cultural and historical dimensions of face-masking as a practice in the age of COVID.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRather than Beck’s ‘risk society’, we are now living in a ‘COVID society’, the long-term effects of which have yet to be experienced or imagined. Everything has changed. The COVID crisis has generated novel forms of sociality and new ways of living and moving through space and time. In this new world, the face mask has become a significant object, positioned as one of the key ways people can protect themselves and others from infection with the coronavirus. The face mask is rich with symbolic meaning as well as practical value. 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They have had to learn how to make sense of face masking as a protective practice and how to incorporate face masks into their everyday practices and routines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFace masking practices have become highly political. The USA has witnessed protests against face mask wearing that rest on ‘sovereign individualism’, a notion which is highly specific to the contemporary political climate in that country. Face masks have also been worn to make political statements: bearing anti-racist statements, for example, but also Trump campaign support. Meanwhile, celebrities and influencers have sought to advocate for face mask wearing as part of their branding, while art makers, museums, designers and novelty fashion manufacturers have identified the opportunity to profit from this sudden new market. 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We bring together sociomaterial theoretical perspectives with compelling examples from public health advice and campaigns, anti-mask activism as well as popular culture (news reports, blog posts, videos, online shopping sites, art works) to illustrate our theoretical points, and use Images to support our analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309685649781,"sku":"9783110723250","price":35.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783110723250_af19fe36-c557-4cc4-bac8-46d0246dd3cf.jpg?v=1786032083"},{"product_id":"9781138022775","title":"Digital Sociology","description":"New digital media technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life and social relations for many people in developed societies, and increasingly in developing societies. 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