On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture; Alexandra Stuhlmann and Siyu Li (Web)
Proposals by: 01.06.2026
Since the so-called “corporeal turn” of the 1980s and 1990s, bodies have become a central concern across the social sciences and humanities (e.g., Csordas 1999, Shilling 2003, Sheets-Johnstone 2009, Tambornino 2002). As a result, embodiment has emerged as a key analytical lens across a number of disciplines. Csordas (1994:6) famously conceptualizes it as “the existential ground of culture and self,” thereby foregrounding the body as the starting point for analyzing how culture and self take shape. Within embodiment research, scholars have approached the body in multiple ways, including as a central medium through which social life is constituted (Shilling 2005), and as the site of perception, lived experience, and embodied engagement with the world (Csordas 1994). Embodiment itself has been understood as a performative phenomenon that shifts attention from having a body to being and doing bodies (Ellingson 2017). Together, these perspectives highlight that bodies are not fixed entities but emerge through ongoing social, experiential, and practical dynamics. Here, body points to the situated, material, and sensed entity, while embodiment draws attention to the processes through which such entities are continuously constituted in relations and practices, shifting analytical focus from what the body is to how bodies come to be and to matter.
Despite the crucial role this scholarship has played in redirecting attention to the body, embodiment is often addressed in separate theoretical and disciplinary conversations across cultural studies, the social sciences, and the life sciences. In this 21st issue of On_Culture, we explore how bodies come into being through intersecting cultural, social, and biological dynamics. Approaching embodiment as a plural phenomenon, we examine how these processes interact to form bodies that, in turn, generate cultural meanings and practices. Read more … (Web)
On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
On_Culture is a biannual, Open Access peer-reviewed scholar-led journal edited by doctoral researchers, postdocs, and professors working at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig Univ. Giessen. It provides a forum for reflecting on the study of culture. It investigates, problematizes, and develops key concepts and methods in the field by means of a collaborative and collective process. Read more … (Web)
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