Places Through the Body/Edited by Heidi J.Nast and Steve Pile
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PLACES THROUGH THE BODY It is relatively easy to imagine how bodies labour to make places and how the social conditions and physical form of a place might shape particular kinds of bodies. It is much more difficult to think about how bodies and places simultaneously and creatively make one another. Body parts, for example, are mapped onto spatial processes and places in culturally specific ways: in Western countries it is not unusual to say the bowels of the earth, the eye of the storm, the spine of a book, or the foot of a mountain. Similarly, spatial processes and landscape features are mapped onto human processes and bodies: an earthy person, a stormy marriage, a person who is a bookworm, or a person built like a rock. There is something remarkable about this transformation of bodies into places and places into bodies: something, that is, which is not easy to imagine. The authors in this collection draw on novel, creative and often poetic ideas to show how bodies and places make one another. Together they reveal how places through the body and how bodies through places, come to be. The volume is divided into four sections. In part one, Filtering Places Bodies, authors show how discourses, memories, and practices work to filter or screen experiences, shaping our symbolic and material understandings of the world. Part two, Confining Places Bodies, demonstrates how various kinds of bodies have historically been denigrated and confined, and how confined bodies and places emerge simultaneously in cultural imaginaries. In contrast, part three, Excessing Places Bodies, shows how bodies and places always exceed their cultural confinements. The final section, ProjectingPlacesBodies, focuses on how bodies and places are materially and symbolically displaced onto one another, across different scales and through radically different forms of communication. This exciting collection from and outstanding group of international authors opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and reveals the surprising, as well as poignant, ways in which people move through places through the body. Heidi J.Nast is an Assistant Professor in the International Studies Program at De Paul University, Chicago. She writes about sexuality and state formational processes and is the co-editor of Thresholds in Feminist Geography (1997). Steve Pile is a lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University. He is the author of The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity (1996) and co-editor, with Michael Keith, of Geographies of Resistance (1997). PLACES THROUGH THE BODY Edited by Heidi J.Nast and Steve Pile London and New York First published 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 36th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1998 Heidi J.Nast and Steve Pile for the collection; individual chapters: the contributors The right of Heidi J.Nast and Steve Pile to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Places through the body/edited by Heidi J.Nast and Steve Pile. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Human geography. 2. Body, Human-Social aspects. 3. Body, Human-Symbolic aspects. 4. Spatial behavior. 5. Personal space. I. Nast, Heidi J. II. Pile, Steve, 1961– GF50.P57 1998 304.2′3–dc21 97–37994 ISBN 0-203-97653-3 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0 415 17904 1 (hbk) ISBN 0 415 17905 x (pbk) CONTENTS List of figures vi List of contributors viii Acknowledgments xi The cover illustrations: a word from the artist xii by Cindy Davies 1 Introduction: MakingPlacesBodies 1 HEIDI J.NAST AND STEVE PILE PART 1 FilteringPlacesBodies 15 2 Queer(y)ing globalization 16 J.K.GIBSON-GRAHAM 3 Bodies-cities 31 ELIZABETH GROSZ 4 Human.language.machine 39 KEN HILLIS 5 Missing kitchens 54 SUSAN BORDO, BINNIE KLEIN AND MARILYN K.SILVERMAN 6 The body as “place”: reflexivity and fieldwork in Kano, Nigeria 69 HEIDI J.NAST PART 2 ConfiningPlacesBodies 87 7 Harem: colonial fiction and architectural fantasm in turn-of-the-century France 88 EMILY APTER 8 Dancing in the dark: the inscription of blackness in Le Corbusier’s Radiant City 99 MABEL O.WILSON 9 The South African body politic: space, race and heterosexuality 114 GLEN S.ELDER 10 The house behind 123 KAREN BERMANN v PART 3 ExcessingPlacesBodies 135 11 Beyond nomadism: the travel narratives of a “cripple” 136 MICHAEL L.DORN 12 Encountering Mary: ritualization and place contagion in postmodernity 153 ANGELA K.MARTIN AND SANDRA KRYST 13 Perverse desire: the lure of the mannish lesbian 171 TERESA DE LAURETIS 14 Reading the sexed bodies and spaces of gyms 182 LYNDA JOHNSTON 15 Ladies and gentlemen: train rides and other Oedipal stories 197 VIRGINIA L.BLUM PART 4 ProjectingPlacesBodies 210 16 Inscribing domestic work on Filipina bodies 211 GERALDINE PRATT in collaboration with the PHILIPPINE WOMEN CENTRE, VANCOUVER, CANADA 17 Mapped bodies and disembodied maps: (dis)placing cartographic struggle in 227 colonial Canada MATTHEW SPARKE 18 Embodying the urban Maori warrior 252 GREGORY A.WALLER 19 Sex, violence and the weather: male hysteria, scale and the fractal geographies of 267 patriarchy CHRISTOPHER LUKINBEAL AND STUART C.AITKEN 20 Written on the body: eroticism, death and hagiography 285 GIULIANA BRUNO CONCLUSION 301 21 EverydayPlacesBodies 302 HEIDI J.NAST AND STEVE PILE Index 311 FIGURES 4.1 “The Future of Television” by Bart Nagel 47 6.1 Royal concubines’ interpellation of me as a heterosexualized outsider and social equal 78 6.2 Female bayi’s positioning and identification of me as master and provider 79 6.3 Royal wifely disciplining of me as social inferior 80 7.1 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814 89 7.2 Frederick Goodall, A New Light in the Harem, 1884 90 7.3 Jean Léon Gérôme, The Guardian of the Harem, 1859 91 7.4 Eugène Delacroix, Women of Algiers in their Apartment, 1834 92 7.5 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, La Petite Baigneuse, 1882 92 7.6 Giulio Rosati, Inspecting the New Arrivals, undated 95 7.7 Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Slave-Market, undated 96 7.8 Frank Dillon, An Apartment in the Harem of Sheik Sâdât in Cairo, 1873 97 10.1 Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Courtesy of the Anne Frank Foundation, Amsterdam124 10.2 Sara Rothé, Doll’s house. Courtesy of the Haags Gemeentemuseum Collection133 12.1 The entrance to Our Lady’s farm in Falmouth, Kentucky, on the day of Mary’s monthly visitation 155 to a visionary at this site. Many people journey to the site on the eighth day of every month, some in specially chartered tour buses like the one shown, to witness her visitation to Sandy, the Falmouth visionary. Photograph courtesy of the authors 12.2 The statue representing Our Lady of Light situated in the “Grotto Area” where Mary’s visitation 157 occurs. Photograph courtesy of the authors 12.3 Many pilgrims enter the Grotto Area before and after Mary’s visitation to pray and touch the 160 statue. Photograph courtesy of the authors 12.4 Sandy, the Falmouth visionary, stands with a microphone and reads Mary’s message to the pilgrims160 shortly after her visitation. Photograph courtesy of the authors 12.5 Many pilgrims take photographs at apparition sites, including photographs of the sun, in the hope 164 of catching an image of Mary on film which they cannot detect with the naked eye. This polaroid was taken at Conyers, GA, and circulated over an apparition listserve. It includes a superimposed image of Mary extending her mantle across a woman who is kneeling and praying at the foot of a crucifix erected at the site. Written material circulated with the photograph asserts that the woman was pregnant at the time the picture was taken. Photograph: anonymous 14.1 Bev Francis. Source: Teper and Neveux 1994:43. Reprinted with permission from Ironman 184 magazine 16.1 “The Working Woman’s Nanny”. A representation of a domestic worker in a national Canadian 212 newspaper. Source: The Globe and the Mail, Tuesday, August 29, 1995. Drawn by Dominic Bucatto 17.1 Cook’s general chart of the island of Newfoundland230 17.2 Shawnadithit’s map with Cormack’s annotations. Courtesy of the Newfoundland Museum235 vii 17.3 A black and white copy of the Newfoundland portion of Plate 20 in the Historical Atlas of Canada,243 Volume One. Plain circles represent habitation sites. Circles with protruding additions represent burial sites. The arrows in the sea represent the directions of seasonal cod migrations 17.4 A black and white copy of the Newfoundland portion of Plate 69, “Native Canada, ca 1820”, in the245 Historical Atlas of Canada, Volume One 18.1 Grace’s corpse at the tangi, around which the community gathers 255 18.2 Jake and his mates at the Royal256 18.3 The first image of Boogie, model of hip-hop cool257 18.4 Boogie’s solo haka, performed in a space provided by the state258 18.5 Nig cruises with his Toa Aotearoa brothers-to-be260 18.6 Fleeting image of Beth’s ancestral village, seen from afar261 18.7 Dissolve links Beth’s face with the moko of a carved figure in the village 262 20.1 The dream of love, in Fantasia’e surdato (Soldier’s Fantasy, 1927) by Elvira Notari287 20.2 Michelangelo, Pietà, 1499288 20.3 Gianlorenzo Bernini, Saint Theresa in Ecstasy, 1645–52288 20.4 Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, 1674289 20.5 ’A Santanotte (The Holy Night, 1922) by Elvira Notari294 20.6 Francesco Guarino, Saint Agatha, 1637 295 CONTRIBUTORS Stuart C.Aitken is Professor of Geography at San Diego State University, California.