Somapower: Somaesthetics Reads Politics (Studies in Somaesthetics, 8)

Somapower: Somaesthetics Reads Politics (Studies in Somaesthetics, 8)
by: Leszek Koczanowicz (Editor)
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Publication Date: 2024/5/30
Language: English
Print Length: 228 pages
ISBN-10: 9004697799
ISBN-13: 9789004697799
Book Description
Scholars such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu have shown how the body can become a site of oppression. But after all, the body can become a vehicle for resistance or emancipation. The contributors to this volume, referring to Richard Shusterman’s concept of somaesthetics, show through various examples how this is possible.Moving away from Foucault’s and Bourdieu’s construal of the body as a site of oppression, the contributors to this volume draw on Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics to argue that the body can also be a vehicle for resistance and emancipation.
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Scholars such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu have shown how the body can become a site of oppression. But after all, the body can become a vehicle for resistance or emancipation. The contributors to this volume, referring to Richard Shusterman’s concept of somaesthetics, show through various examples how this is possible.Moving away from Foucault’s and Bourdieu’s construal of the body as a site of oppression, the contributors to this volume draw on Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics to argue that the body can also be a vehicle for resistance and emancipation. Read more