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Bodies of Democracy: Modes of Embodied Politics

By Amanda Machin

Book information

Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Year
2022
ISBN
9783839449233
DOI
10.1515/9783839449233
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2156311 bytes)
Series
Edition Politik; 84
Pages
186\222
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 11:27:02

Description

Where are all the bodies? Political institutions are populated by living breathing human beings, who eat, sleep, gesture, desire and suffer. And yet participants of the political realm are often depicted as disembodied minds, detached and distinct from their corporeal existence. Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: identification, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael Polyani, Simone de Beauvoir, Donna Haraway and Judith Butler, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways that human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics, but the generative subjects of democracy.

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