@article{1448244,
      recid = {1448244},
      author = {Vaahtera, Touko,},
      title = {Biopolitics of swimming and the re-articulation of  able-bodiedness : bodies of latent potential /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {"This wonderfully written book subjects swimming to a  much-needed queer and disability analysis. Vaahtera asks us  to reconsider the innocence of the question can you  swim?and to explore together wider societal assumptions  that we hold over ourselves and others associated with  capacity, capability, and ability." Dan Goodley, Professor  of Disability Studies and Education, University of  Sheffield, UK "Tackling urgent questions regarding the  biopolitics of transnational and local bodily  'capabilities,' Touko Vaahtera challenges us to examine how  we oriented towards able-bodiedness. Focusing on a wide  range of cultural texts, and challenging what we might  understand as both culture and text, this book offers a  queercrip methodology for analysing the intersectional  politics of embodied, collective living. It opens up how we  read, understand and experience collective bodily norms and  their contexts, whilst offering specifically queercrip ways  of imagining alternative modes of being." Donna McCormack,  School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde, Scotland  In this book, Touko Vaahtera explores how "bodies of latent  potential", a cultural attachment to the idea of body as  potentiality, carries with it hierarchizing hopes about  better bodies. Vaahtera combines disability studies,  cultural studies, feminist science studies, transgender  studies, post-colonial studies, and Foucauldian genealogy  to offer a provocative approach that interrogates  capacities and capabilities as obvious frameworks for  thinking about the body. Vaahtera explores how swimming  skills emerged as a specific biopolitical question in  Finland, a country that has been described as the "Land of  a Thousand Lakes." Through a profound cultural analysis  focusing both on Finnish cultural texts on swimming as well  as manifold more globalized texts, Vaahtera considers how  the legacy of eugenics and colonialism, the hopes of  civilization, and homogenizing assumptions about bodies  frame how we think about human capacity. Touko Vaahtera is  a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social  Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. They are the  editor of Troubling Educational Cultures in the Nordic  Countries (2017). .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1448244},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06274-2},
}