Mapping the Subject

<p>Rejecting static and reductionist understandings of subjectivity, this book asks how people find their place in the world. <em>Mapping the Subject</em> is an inter-disciplinary exploration of subjectivity, which focuses on the importance of space in the constitution of acting, thinking, feeling individuals.<br> The authors develop their arguments through detailed case studies and clear theoretical expositions. Themes discussed are organised into four parts: constructing the subject, sexuality and subjectivity, the limits of identity, and the politics of the subject.<br> There is, here, a commitment to mapping the subject - a subject which is in some ways fluid, in other ways fixed; which is located in constantly unfolding power, knowledge and social relationships. This book is, moreover, about new maps for the subject.</p> 1: Introduction; 2: Mapping the Subject; I: Constructing the Subject; 3: Knowing the Individual; 4: Maps and Polar Regions; 5: ‘The Art of Right Living'; 6: Families and Domestic Routines; II: Sexuality and Subjectivity; 7: The Sexed Self; 8: Women on Trial; 9: Men, Heterosexualities and Emotional Life; III: The Limits of Identity; 10: Mapping ‘Mad' Identities; 11: Bodies without Organs; 12: Exploring the Subject in Hyper-Reality; 13: Migrant Selves and Stereotypes; IV: The Politics of the Subject; 14: Time, Space and Otherness 1; 15: Subject to Change without Notice; 16: Making Space for the Female Subject of Feminism; 17: Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Street Rebels; 18: Conclusions