The Impact of Social Changes on the Methodological Development of Transdisciplinary Body Studies

Aleksa Milanović

doi:10.25038/am.v0i28.490

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Aleksa Milanović

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i28.490

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body studies, disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, social changes

Abstract

This paper deals with the methodological development of research work in the domain of body studies. Since the 1980s there has been a significant change in study approach to the phenomenon of the body in several scholarly disciplines, but it is even more important that since then, this topic has been approached from the standpoint of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. As a result, body studies have emerged as a new transdisciplinary field of study. This paper aims to point out the key social changes that have contributed to a greater interest in body studies, which led to the development of an encompassing transdisciplinary methodological approach to body issues.

Article received: December 31, 2021; Article accepted: February 1, 2022; Published online: April 15, 2022; Original scholarly article

Author Biography

Aleksa Milanović

Faculty of media and communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade
Serbia

Aleksa Milanović is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade and the author of two books: Representation of Transgender Identities in Visual Arts (2015) and Media Construction of Other Body (2019). Also, Milanović is the third editor of the book Transgender in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Lives, Activisms, Culture forthcoming from the Policy Press imprint of Bristol University Press in 2022. Milanović graduated from the Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade (BA and MA studies), University of Arts in Belgrade, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of Theory of Art and Media (MA studies), and Ph.D. studies in Transdisciplinary Studies of Contemporary Arts and Media at Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade where they defended their Ph.D. thesis. Milanović is engaged in scientific research work in which they mainly deals with body studies and gender studies in the field of transgender and queer studies, theorizing the discourse of different, non-normative genders by analyzing representations of transgender and other gender bodies within mass media, visual arts, and popular culture.

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