Bodies of Democracy
Modes of Embodied Politics
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-8394-4923-3
- EAN: 9783839449233
- Produktnummer: 33699471
- Verlag: transcript Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: Hardcover, Klebebindung
- Reihenbandnummer: 84
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.
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