Conclusion: Politics of (Dis)embodiment
摘要
This concluding chapter contrasts Chatterjee’s socially grounded “politics of disembodiment” with the phenomenological account developed in the book. While her notion describes how institutions and cultural narratives produce disempowered, estranged figures at the collective level, the book emphasizes disembodiment as an individual disturbance of embodied self-experience. The chapter argues that this experiential focus also has political implications: attending to first-person accounts of bodily alienation can inform therapeutic, pedagogical, and social interventions that reshape how individuals inhabit their bodies and how those bodies are perceived by others. Politics of (dis)embodiment thus names a transformative practice aimed at restoring agency and reconfiguring lived experience across both clinical and socio-cultural contexts.