ISBN:
9781793616531
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 306 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Embodied activisms
DDC:
303.48/4
Keywords:
Social movements
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Embodied Activisms explores activists' use of their bodies to resist hegemonic power and promote justice. This book spans historical perspectives, current contexts including police accountability activism and Black Lives Matter, and the most recent scholarship to interrogate activist engagement from the Americas to the Mediterranean.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Ouverture: Embodied Activisms -- Theorizing Embodied Activisms -- Witnessing, Remembering -- Silence and In/Visibility -- Notes -- Part I: Theorizing Embodied Activisms: Section I -- Chapter 1: Centuries of In/Visibility: The Origins of Embodied Activism as Theory and Practice -- Resistance through Embodied Activism -- Hypervisible Embodied Activisms -- Invisible Embodied Activisms -- Emphatically Visible Activisms -- Authenticated Visible Activisms -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Police Accountability Activism as Feminist Ethics: Theorizing Nonviolent Embodied Witnessing -- Police Accountability, Past and Present -- Theorizing Police Accountability Activism -- Embodied Practice -- Embodiment in Discourse -- Relationships with Strangers -- PAA and Feminist Philosophy -- Feminist Theory's Contribution to Understanding PAA -- Patriarchal Patterns -- Assessing PAA's "Product" -- Establishing Best Practices -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Visual Disruptions as Embodied Activism: Leisure Spectacle Demonstration -- Definitions and Affordances -- Limitations and Novel Analytical Frames -- Field Observations and Methodology -- Polka, Tango, and Yoga for Collective Bargaining and Fair Governance -- Biking for Open Roadways and Environmental Awareness -- Floating along the River to Remove Its Dams -- Leisure Acts of Performative Defiance -- Concluding Remarks -- Note -- Chapter 4: The (De)meaning of Incorruptible Flesh: Marginalized Bodies and the Performance of Desire -- Ron Athey: A Harsh Life -- Incorruptible Flesh (Dissociative Sparkle) -- Ron Athey's Desiring Body -- Bearing Witness -- Chapter 5: Lay Down Your "Body Burdens" and Write: (Re)Forming Environmental Science through Narratives of Toxicity and Healing.
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