Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity.
Franck Billé (UC Berkely)
Join BIG_LAB on Monday, November 24th at 10 am (PST) at the University of Victoria (SED C168) or online via Zoom for a BIG_Talk by Franck Billé (UC Berkeley) on his latest book, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity.
Franck Billé (University of California, Berkeley) is an anthropologist and geographer working at the intersection of cartography, sovereignty, and territoriality. His research interest has led to several book projects organized around the theoretical foci of the volumetric, the corporeal, and the topological. His most recent books include Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination (2020), On the Edge: Life along the Russia-¬ China Border (with Caroline Humphrey, 2021), Writing in the Negative Space of the State (2024), and Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (2
