Vulnerable/Dangerous Bodies? The Trials and Tribulations of Sleep

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ID5016306
AuthorsSimon J Williams (0000-0003-0664-7203, University of Warwick, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume55
Issue1_suppl
Pages142-155
Publication date2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-954x.2007.00698.x
OpenAlexW2134229929
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited18

Sleep provides us with a unique vantage point on the sociology of living in/as a body. We are sleeping as well as waking beings. Sleeping, moreover, is embodied and embedded in the social world. Whilst many of us derive great comfort or pleasure from our sleep, this chapter explores the other face of sleep, namely the vulnerabilities and dangers it embodies and engenders, potentially at least, to self and others. This in turn provides the basis, towards the end of the chapter, for a broader series of sociological reflections on the growing problematization or politics of sleep in a 24/7 risk society where sleep is now becoming a matter of 'public concern'. Sleep, it is concluded, is a crucial yet sociologically overlooked aspect of our embodiment; a shared embodied vulnerability that, at one and the same time, unites and divides us

Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Problematization · Sleep (system call) · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing) · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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