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Under the Skin: Negotiating the Affect of Tattoo Removal

New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

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Title Under the Skin: Negotiating the Affect of Tattoo Removal
 
Creator GermAnn, Fraser Kendrick
 
Subject Tattoo Removal
Effacement
Materiality
Affect
Personhood
Subjectivity
 
Description This autoethnography analyses the construction of personhood in relation to tattoos and their removal by exploring the affective response the author had during his first tattoo removal experience. Influenced by Renato Rosaldo’s imperialist nostalgia, the paper explores how this response was negotiated through the memories of a younger self in conjunction with present circumstances as a graduate student. In doing so, the paper reflects on the ever-changing relationship between the author and the tattoo and the role this connection has played and continues to play within the constitution of the author’s subjectivity.
 
Publisher New Proposals Publishing Society
 
Date 2018-06-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/188314
 
Source New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018): Autoethnography – Integrating the Anthropologist; 98-107
1715-6718
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/188314/187045
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Fraser Kendrick GermAnn
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