Placental surfaces and the geographies of bodily interiors
Placental surfaces and the geographies of bodily interiors
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DOI：
10.1068/a44698
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Fannin, Maria
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作者：
Colls, Rachel;Fannin, Maria
在对“身体”的地理研究中，关注身体的表面对于考虑身体边界（通常暗示开始和结束于皮肤）如何限制、调节和稳定我们所知道的“身体”是有用的。这些作品让人们注意到意义是如何铭刻在这些表面上的，以及在这些表面上、内部和通过这些表面的液体上的：例如血液、母乳和排泄物。然而，这篇论文考虑了通过与胎盘接触来从地理上思考身体内部表面的潜力。胎盘是一个临时器官，仅在怀孕期间在妇女体内形成，其目的是调解妇女身体和胎儿之间的物质流动。它通常被认为有两个表面，母体表面和胎儿表面，或者本身就是“一个”表面。我们的目的是从地理上考虑“胎盘”，以便专注于内部表面可以“做”什么，而不是“它们意味着什么”。在这样做时，我们的贡献是双重的。首先，我们将专注于胎盘的“表面重塑”，当它移动到身体外放置在其他（身体）表面，带回体内的起源，或投入研究使用。这对于突出内部身体表面的特定移动性和时间性是重要的。其次，我们考虑胎盘的地理学的理论和伦理意义，通过与吕斯Irigaray的帐户之间的胎盘关系的母亲和胎儿理解为调解的空间或“两个之间的空间”。特别是，我们有兴趣考虑内部身体表面的性别特异性的地理潜力，或者它们的“形态逻辑”，以理解自我与他人之间以及身体与世界之间的关系;简而言之，我们将胎盘作为一个“关系器官”，以揭示新的和潜在的活跃的伦理交换空间。
Within geographical research on 'the body', a focus on the surfaces of bodies has been useful for considering how body boundaries, most often implied to begin and end at the skin, (de)limit, (de)regulate, and (de)stabilise what we come to know as 'a body'. Such work draws attention to how meaning is inscribed 'upon' such surfaces and on the fluids that move across, within, and through those surfaces: for example blood, breast milk, and excrement. This paper, however, considers the potential for thinking geographically about interior bodily surfaces by engaging with the placenta. The placenta is a temporary organ that forms in a woman's body only during pregnancy and whose purpose is to mediate the flow of substances between a woman's body and the foetus. It is often considered to have two surfaces, the maternal and foetal surface, or to be 'a' surface in and of itself. Our intention is to think geographically 'with' the placenta' in order to focus on what interior surfaces can 'do' rather than 'what they mean'. In so doing our contribution is twofold. Firstly, we will focus on the 'resurfacing' of the placenta when it moves outside of the body to be placed upon other (bodily) surfaces, taken back inside the body of origin, or put to use in research. This is significant for highlighting the specific mobilities and temporalities of interior bodily surfaces. Secondly, we consider the theoretical and ethical significance of the placenta for geography by engaging with Luce Irigaray's account of the placental relation between mother and foetus understood as a space of mediation or 'space between two'. In particular we are interested in considering the geographical potential of the sexed specificities of interior body surfaces, or their 'morpho-logics', for understandings of relationality, between self and other, and body and world; in short, we work with the placenta as a 'relational organ' in order to uncover new and potentially enlivening ethical spaces of exchange.