I. Skin as Boundary, Sensorium & Embodied World
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Claudia Benthien — Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and the World (2002)
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Nina Jablonski — Skin: A Natural History (2006)
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Constance Classen — The Deepest Sense (2012)
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Didier Anzieu — The Skin-Ego (1985)
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Michel Serres — The Five Senses (1985)
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Steven Connor — The Book of Skin (2004)
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Rosi Braidotti — Nomadic Subjects (1994)
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Tim Ingold — The Perception of the Environment (2000)
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Sarah Ahmed — The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004)
II. The Modified Body: Technologies, Marks & Interventions
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Victoria Pitts-Taylor — In the Flesh (2003)
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Margo DeMello — Bodies of Inscription (2000)
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Michael Atkinson — Tattooed (2003)
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Paul Sweetman — Modifying the Body (1999)
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Meredith Jones — Skintight (2008)
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Kathy Davis — Reshaping the Female Body (1995)
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Anthony Elliott — Making the Cut (2008)
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Virginia Blum — Flesh Wounds (2003)
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Elizabeth Grosz — Volatile Bodies (1994)
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Susan Bordo — Unbearable Weight (1993)
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Bryan S. Turner — The Body and Society (1984)
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Judith Butler — Bodies That Matter (1993)
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Amelia Jones — Body Art/Performing the Subject (1998)
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Margrit Shildrick — Embodying the Monster (2002)
III. Mobility, Nomadism & Transversal Bodies
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Jacques Attali — L’Homme Nomade (2003)
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Stuart Hall — Cultural Identity and Diaspora (1990)
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Avtar Brah — Cartographies of Diaspora (1996)
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Sara Ahmed — Strange Encounters (2000)
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Liisa H. Malkki — Purity and Exile (1995)
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Aihwa Ong — Flexible Citizenship (1999)
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Michel Agier — Borderlands (2016)
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Anne Anlin Cheng — Ornamentalism (2019)
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Zygmunt Bauman — Liquid Modernity (2000)
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Zygmunt Bauman — Wasted Lives (2004)
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Oliver Basciano — Outcast (2025)
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Madeleine Reeves — The Roma: A Travelling History (2024/2025)
IV. Coloniality, Visibility & Racialized Skins
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Paul Gilroy — The Black Atlantic (1993)
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Gloria Anzaldúa — Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)
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Achille Mbembe — Critique of Black Reason (2017)
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Achille Mbembe — On the Postcolony (2001)
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Achille Mbembe — Necropolitics (2019)
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Tiffany Lethabo King — The Black Shoals (2019)
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Christina Sharpe — In the Wake (2016)
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Frantz Fanon — Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
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Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
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Adam Shatz — The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (2024)
V. Biological & Dermatological Foundations
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William Montagna — The Structure and Function of Skin (1989)
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Rawlings & Matts — The Biology of the Skin (2006)
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Lars Norlén — Skin Microstructure and Barrier Function (2016)
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Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology (2023)
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David Linden — Touch (2015)
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Theresa L. Whiteside — The Immunology of the Skin (2023)
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Günther Wertheimer — Skin and Permeation Pathways (1999)
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Daniel Monti — Skin: Interface Organ (2018)
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Richard L. Gallo — The Microbiome and the Skin (2016)
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J. L. Bos — Skin Immune System (2005)
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Henning Boeg — The Human Skin Microbiome (2021)
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Peter J. Matts — Skin Aging Handbook (2009)