Amanda Machin

Bodies of Democracy

Modes of Embodied Politics

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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 human bodies are not only the disciplined objec… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-8376-4923-9
EAN: 9783837649239
Produktnummer: 33690870
Verlag: Transcript Verlag
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Masse: H22.5 cm x B14.8 cm 318 g
Abbildungen: Hardcover, Klebebindung
Reihenbandnummer: 84
Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor

Amanda Machin is professor of International Political Studies at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. Her research focuses on the politics of citizenship, identity, embodiment, the environment and agonistic democracy.