Professor of Sociology, Chris Shilling’s latest book ‘The Body: A Very Short Introduction’ has just been published by Oxford University Press.
The body is an amazing mechanism that enables us to exist, move and function throughout our daily lives, but we often overlook its importance for our social identities and for the maintenance and development of societies. Chris’s book highlights how ‘body matters’ are key to contemporary social trends and problems, explores the potential of classical sociology to aid our understanding of embodiment, and identifies some of the multiple reasons why the body has become a source of conflict in the contemporary era.
Chris’s blog on the body has also been published by Oxford University Press and can be read here http://blog.oup.com/2016/01/bodies-of-culture-knowledge-vsi/ and he will be giving a talk on the body at the Edinburgh Science Festival in April.