corpographies

Noun

corpography (countable and uncountable, plural corpographies)

1. a means of conceptualizing a battlefield or war through the physical forms of soldiers
   • In discussing the modern experience of battle, Derek Gregory has developed the neologistic concept of ‘corpography,’ explaining that ‘the radically different knowledges that the war-weary soldiers improvised as a matter of sheer survival [constitute] a corpography: a way of apprehending the battle...2023, Mary Allitt, “Corpography: Reconceptualising Somatic Geographies” (chapter 1), in Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care, Edinburgh University Press, pages...
2. the study of the experience of living in a body
   • Their improvisational knowledges were intensely corporeal and constituted a ‘corpography’ whose constructions relied primarily on sound, smell and touch.2015, Derek Gregory, “Gabriel’s Map: Cartography and Corpography in Modern War” (chapter 4), in Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory, Laura Suarsana, editors, Geographies of Knowledge and Power (Knowledge...