Remaking the post ‘human’: a productive problem for health sociology

McLeod, Kim; Fullagar, Simone

doi:10.1080/14461242.2021.1990710

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“…I recognise how whiteness has an ongoing history of orienting bodies, which directly influences the theoretical space I can take up and what I can accomplish conceptually in terms of attuning to race, gender, and sexuality (Ahmed, 2021). I also understand how assemblage thinking is shaped by colonisation (McLeod & Fullagar, 2021) and that I espouse a minoritarian view of race, gender, and sexuality from a majoritarian position. Consistent with the work of Rosiek et al (2020), I apprehend how Indigenous studies deploy agent ontologies with considerable explanatory power in areas where assemblage thinking and other new materialist and posthumanist theories have identified limitations.…”

Section: Positionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such new ways of thinking involve a move beyond humanist logics that the earth exists for us. Here, "we" and "us" are deployed in recognition of pluriversal histories (McLeod & Fullagar, 2021), signifying how we are all in this planetary condition together, while recognising the asymmetry of human oppression and its resulting slow violence (Alaimo, 2019). The "we" is thus heterogenous from a race, gender, and sexuality standpoint, given that we differ greatly in our access to social entitlements, safety, prosperity, and services (Braidotti, 2020).…”

Section: Youth Sport Research and Capitalismmentioning

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Assemblage Thinking as Attunement to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Youth Sport Research

Camiré

2022

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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Youth sport is often prefaced as an accessible social practice facilitating development and wellbeing, yet social controls and inequalities abound along racial, gender, and sexual divisions. In efforts of transformative theoretical manoeuvring, the purpose of the paper is to deploy assemblage thinking as attunement to race, gender, and sexuality in youth sport research. A rationale for assemblage thinking is provided, followed by explanations of what assemblage thinking can do. Assemblage thinking is then deployed, situating race, gender, and sexuality as provisional performative doings. Key considerations are offered as to how youth sport researchers can engage in performative participation, acting as becoming-resources who consider the ever-evolving dynamics of academia and capitalism. Assemblage thinking is positioned as a provincial lens that can instigate more sustainable transformative research.

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Section: Youth Sport Research and Capitalismmentioning

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Assemblage Thinking as Attunement to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Youth Sport Research

Camiré

2022

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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“…These strains of thought, along with many others, are what translate into a posthumanist sociology, most recently exemplified in a flurry of articles by health and environmental sociologists, such as Nick Fox and Pam Alldred (2020a, 2020b). As well, a recently published special issue of Health Sociology Review was devoted explicitly to the posthumanist movement (McLeod and Fullagr, 2021). Fox and Alldred cut through the binary logics that underlie the separation of humans from their social and environmental ecologies.…”

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Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic

Vallee

2022

Current Sociology

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This article asks whether we need a posthumanist sociology, arguing that such a perspective can export a good deal of useful methodological and theoretical insight into the sociological toolbox. A posthumanist sociology is not a flattened ontology, in which we find agency in all things living and non-living. A posthumanist sociology asks instead what we do with the fundamental question of becoming both more and less human, following a surge of interest in decentring human exceptionalism. Moreover, a posthumanist sociology returns to the question of what it means to be an intersectional being, to proliferate the involvement of entities at the intersections of histories and social structures. Thus, it is a perspective that emerges from within the conditions of related crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic has highlighted the need to decentre human exceptionalism, raising a challenge for sociologists to return to the premises of what it means to be a social being. In some sense, management of the pandemic already assumes a decentring. This article builds an argument by first reviewing what broadly constitutes a ‘posthumanist’ sociological perspective, then moves on to a case study of the interrelated human and non-human actors that constituted the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The case study usefully marks the intersection between human and non-human bodies as nodes in the interpretive production chain of this global event – one that acknowledges human extensions and connections to multispecies and ecological systems. Such interlinkages become foundational to interrogating what it means to become human in a posthuman world. The article ends on this posthuman question: under the posthuman condition, if we do not discern a difference between the human and other-than-human entities, how will this homogenization affect the human collective ability to enact and maintain cross-species and cross-entity protections?

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“…The developers of these programs and strategies should take into account the state of health awareness of the patients and adapt the recommendations to the possibility of their assimilation by laymen in order to conduct accordingly. The possibility of examining the health awareness of laymen creates a modern standard of medical sociology, oriented, inter alia, to the analysis of the experience of the disease by the patients [2,3]. It includes the fact that, for the patient, the disease is not only a somatic experience, but, above all, an existential one significantly changing the way he or she functions in a society.…”

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Expectations of Patients Recovering from SARS-CoV-2 towards New Forms of Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Migała

Płonka-Syroka

Rasławska

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of patients attending an innovative technology-enhanced pulmonary rehabilitation program of National Health Found Program in Poland. The study included two groups of patients participating in post-COVID-19 stationary rehabilitation. Patients from group I (127 individuals) contracted COVID-19 in 2020, while patients from group II fell ill in 2021 (68 individuals). The study used a self-administered questionnaire. This study was designed as an acceptability study. In the experience related to COVID-19 in both groups of the respondents, the possibility of undertaking inpatient rehabilitation in a hospital ward played an important and positive role. Patients who experienced COVID-19 symptomatically expected that rehabilitation would eliminate the related dysfunctions, such as reduced respiratory efficiency of the lungs, disorders of the nervous system, and cognitive disorders (the so-called brain fog). All respondents who experienced symptomatic COVID-19 positively assessed the rehabilitation program offered. Among the highest-rated rehabilitation, elements were identified: exercise on a cycle ergometer implemented with video stimulation, group fitness exercises, and breathing exercises. Other innovative forms of rehabilitation were positively evaluated by 10 to 25% of patients.

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Remaking the post ‘human’: a productive problem for health sociology

Cited by 10 publications

References 46 publications

Assemblage Thinking as Attunement to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Youth Sport Research

Assemblage Thinking as Attunement to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Youth Sport Research

Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic

Expectations of Patients Recovering from SARS-CoV-2 towards New Forms of Pulmonary Rehabilitation

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