Interview with Professor Bryan S Turner: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Body & Society

Image: Professor Bryan S Turner. Source: Edward Cadbury Centre.

‘Interview with Bryan S Turner: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Body & Society’ (Free to read until May 2021)

Published in Body & Society 2020, Volume 26, Issue 4

Abstract

Body & Society started in 1995. The journal has been continuously exploring and problematizing critical issues which have been opening up new horizons in the field of body studies. As an interdisciplinary journal, it has engaged with a wider range of innovative approaches to the body, which includes sociology, cultural studies, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, history, science and technology studies, sensory studies and media studies. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Body & Society, managing editor Tomoko Tamari invited Professor Bryan S Turner, who was one of the journal’s founders (with Mike Featherstone), to reflect on the academic and historical background of Body & Society along with his own academic trajectory over the last 40 years.