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Bodies of Democracy
Modes of Embodied Politics, Edition Politik 84
ISBN/EAN: 9783837649239
Umbreit-Nr.: 8926524
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 186 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 25.02.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
- Zusatztext
- 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: representation, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael Polanyi, Simone de Beauvoir, Donna Haraway and Judith Butler, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics, but the generative subjects of democracy.
- Autorenportrait
- Amanda Machin is a professor of sociology at the University of Agder, Norway. Her research focuses on radical democracy and environmental politics.