Bodies, Biopolitics, and Mushrooms Once Again: A Response to Donovan Schaefer
Issue: Vol 46 No. 3-4 (2017)
Journal: Bulletin for the Study of Religion
Subject Areas: Religious Studies Buddhist Studies Islamic Studies Biblical Studies
DOI: 10.1558/bsor.33415
Abstract:
In this short essay, I respond to Donovan Schaefer's response to my paper, "Do Mushrooms Have Religion, Too?" Continuing the line of critique originally formulated, I suggest that Schaefer's exclusion of non-animal life from the realm of bodies conceals a biopolitical decision.
Author: Hollis Phelps
References :
Schaefer, Donovan. 2017. “Animal Politics: Species, Evolution, and Religious
Affects,” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 46 (3–4): 40–45. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.34126.