Embodied Activisms
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Embodied Activisms

Performative Expressions of Political and Social Action

  1. 329 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Embodied Activisms

Performative Expressions of Political and Social Action

About this book

Embodied Activisms explores how activists use their bodies to resist social norms, engage with institutions, and promote change. This book spans historical perspectives, current contexts, and the most current scholarly literature to interrogate how embodied activisms are read, performed, understood, and actualized. The studies in this volume address current, critical issues such as police accountability activism, the climate crisis, environmental concerns, and protests of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Chapters analyze a wide range of nonviolent mobilization tactics, including silent protests, embodied witnessing, leisure spectacle demonstrations, performance art and other forms of creative practice, and rallies. Analyses engage with aspects of intersectionality in activism and critique diverse modes of embodied resistance in locations including East Central Europe, the Americas, and the Mediterranean region.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Ouverture: Embodied Activisms
  9. Part I: Theorizing Embodied Activisms: Section I
  10. Chapter 1: Centuries of In/Visibility: The Origins of Embodied Activism as Theory and Practice
  11. Chapter 2: Police Accountability Activism as Feminist Ethics: Theorizing Nonviolent Embodied Witnessing
  12. Chapter 3: Visual Disruptions as Embodied Activism: Leisure Spectacle Demonstration
  13. Chapter 4: The (De)meaning of Incorruptible Flesh: Marginalized Bodies and the Performance of Desire
  14. Chapter 5: Lay Down Your “Body Burdens” and Write: (Re)Forming Environmental Science through Narratives of Toxicity and Healing
  15. Part II: Witnessing, Remembering: Section II
  16. Chapter 6: Palestinian Dedications, Commitments, and Persistence: Decolonial Memory-Work during the 17th Anniversary of the Nakba
  17. Chapter 7: Embodied Witnessing and the Struggle for Memory in Budapest’s Szabadságszínpad Protests
  18. Chapter 8: An Actor-Network Approach: The Role of Art in Public Spaces in the Gezi Protests
  19. Part III: Silence and In/Visibility: Section III
  20. Chapter 9: A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest: Analyzing Intersectionality through Silence-Body-Image
  21. Chapter 10: Embodied (L)activism: Mothering and/as Embodied Nourishing
  22. Chapter 11: Subversive Silence: Productive Discomfort as Embodied Activism
  23. Chapter 12: Emerging Activisms: Responding to Current and Future Crises
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. About the Editors and Contributors