Embodied Belonging: In/exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion

• DOI: 10.1007/s11013-020-09693-3
• Publication Date: 2020-11-21T07:02:31Z
• Authors: Dominik Mattes; Claudia Lang
• Keywords: Social Exclusion

Abstract In this introduction, we propose the notion of ‘embodied belonging’ as a fruitful analytical heuristic for scholars in medical and psychological anthropology. We envision to help us gain more nuanced understanding entanglements political, social, affective dimensions belonging their effects on health, illness, healing. A focus embodied belonging, argue, reveals how displacement, exclusion, marginalization cause existential health-related ruptures people’s lives bodies, affected people, struggle re/emplacement re/integration, may regain health sustain well-being. Covering variety regional contexts (Germany/Vietnam, Norway, UK, Japan), contributions special issue examine non/belonging is experienced, re/imagined, negotiated, practiced, disrupted, contested, achieved (or not) by protagonists, who are excluded marginalized diverse ways. Each article highlights intricate trajectories dynamics inscribe themselves human bodies. They also reveal can be utilized drawn forceful means resource social resilience, if not (self-)therapy