The politics of suffering in the public sphere: the body in pain, empathy, and political spectacles

Can private bodily pain be transformed into a communication medium fit for the public sphere? Can the body in pain be utilized as a means for political participation? If so, how? Under what circumstances? By whom? And to what effect? To begin answering these questions, this dissertation concentrates...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cho, Young Cheon
Other Authors: Gronbeck, Bruce E.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2009
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/936
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2321&context=etd