Embodied Activisms

Performative Expressions of Political and Social Action

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel, Lara Martin Lengel

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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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Utgivningsdatum2022-02-09
Mått161 x 228 x 27 mm
Vikt699 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793616524

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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.