Victoria A. Newsom is professor of communication studies and affiliate faculty in social justice and diversity at Olympic College.Lara Martin Lengel is professor in the School of Media and Communication and affiliate faculty in women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Bowling Green State University.

• Table of ContentsOuverture: Embodied Activisms Victoria A. Newsom & Lara Martin LengelSection I: Theorizing Embodied ActivismsChapter 1: Centuries of In/Visibility: Origins of Embodied Activism as Theory and Practice Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel, and Desiree A. MontenegroChapter 2: Police Accountability Activism as Feminist Ethics: Theorizing Non-Violent Embodied Witnessing Mary Angela BockChapter 3: Visual Disruptions as Embodied Activism: Leisure Spectacle Demonstration Casey R. SchmittChapter 4: The [De]meaning of Incorruptible Flesh: Marginalized Bodies and the Performance of Desire Billy Huff & Margaret Cavin HambrickChapter 5: Lay Down Your 'Body Burdens' and Write: (Re)Forming Environmental ScienceThrough Narratives of Toxicity and HealingArlene PlevinSection II: Witnessing, RememberingChapter 6: Palestinian Dedications, Commitments, and Persistence: Decolonial Memory-work During the Seventieth Anniversary of the NabkaSarah Cathryn Majed Dweik

This pioneering publication proposes a provocative, profound reconceptualization of the body’s role in activism from an instrument that ‘performs activism’ to a constitutive site of resistance and generative source of ‘embodied activism’ opposing oppression grounded in bodily differences. Using original, contemporary case studies of bodily actions (from protesting to witnessing) challenging gender, racial, and ethnic oppression, contributors explicate the tenets, explanatory power, and significance of Newsom and Lengel’s Theory of Embodied Activism. Their research reveals important contributions the theory makes to the study of activism, such as the documented transformative experience of participatory, body-based action showing the need to expand the dominant focus on the effects of activism on social change.

Victoria A. Newsom is professor of communication studies and affiliate faculty in social justice and diversity at Olympic College.Lara Martin Lengel is professor in the School of Media and Communication and affiliate faculty in women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Bowling Green State University.

• Table of ContentsOuverture: Embodied Activisms Victoria A. Newsom & Lara Martin LengelSection I: Theorizing Embodied ActivismsChapter 1: Centuries of In/Visibility: Origins of Embodied Activism as Theory and Practice Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel, and Desiree A. MontenegroChapter 2: Police Accountability Activism as Feminist Ethics: Theorizing Non-Violent Embodied Witnessing Mary Angela BockChapter 3: Visual Disruptions as Embodied Activism: Leisure Spectacle Demonstration Casey R. SchmittChapter 4: The [De]meaning of Incorruptible Flesh: Marginalized Bodies and the Performance of Desire Billy Huff & Margaret Cavin HambrickChapter 5: Lay Down Your 'Body Burdens' and Write: (Re)Forming Environmental ScienceThrough Narratives of Toxicity and HealingArlene PlevinSection II: Witnessing, RememberingChapter 6: Palestinian Dedications, Commitments, and Persistence: Decolonial Memory-work During the Seventieth Anniversary of the NabkaSarah Cathryn Majed Dweik

This pioneering publication proposes a provocative, profound reconceptualization of the body’s role in activism from an instrument that ‘performs activism’ to a constitutive site of resistance and generative source of ‘embodied activism’ opposing oppression grounded in bodily differences. Using original, contemporary case studies of bodily actions (from protesting to witnessing) challenging gender, racial, and ethnic oppression, contributors explicate the tenets, explanatory power, and significance of Newsom and Lengel’s Theory of Embodied Activism. Their research reveals important contributions the theory makes to the study of activism, such as the documented transformative experience of participatory, body-based action showing the need to expand the dominant focus on the effects of activism on social change.

Victoria A. Newsom is professor of communication studies and affiliate faculty in social justice and diversity at Olympic College.Lara Martin Lengel is professor in the School of Media and Communication and affiliate faculty in women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Bowling Green State University.

• Table of ContentsOuverture: Embodied Activisms Victoria A. Newsom & Lara Martin LengelSection I: Theorizing Embodied ActivismsChapter 1: Centuries of In/Visibility: Origins of Embodied Activism as Theory and Practice Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel, and Desiree A. MontenegroChapter 2: Police Accountability Activism as Feminist Ethics: Theorizing Non-Violent Embodied Witnessing Mary Angela BockChapter 3: Visual Disruptions as Embodied Activism: Leisure Spectacle Demonstration Casey R. SchmittChapter 4: The [De]meaning of Incorruptible Flesh: Marginalized Bodies and the Performance of Desire Billy Huff & Margaret Cavin HambrickChapter 5: Lay Down Your 'Body Burdens' and Write: (Re)Forming Environmental ScienceThrough Narratives of Toxicity and HealingArlene PlevinSection II: Witnessing, RememberingChapter 6: Palestinian Dedications, Commitments, and Persistence: Decolonial Memory-work During the Seventieth Anniversary of the NabkaSarah Cathryn Majed Dweik

This pioneering publication proposes a provocative, profound reconceptualization of the body’s role in activism from an instrument that ‘performs activism’ to a constitutive site of resistance and generative source of ‘embodied activism’ opposing oppression grounded in bodily differences. Using original, contemporary case studies of bodily actions (from protesting to witnessing) challenging gender, racial, and ethnic oppression, contributors explicate the tenets, explanatory power, and significance of Newsom and Lengel’s Theory of Embodied Activism. Their research reveals important contributions the theory makes to the study of activism, such as the documented transformative experience of participatory, body-based action showing the need to expand the dominant focus on the effects of activism on social change.