Search Results for body politic/embodiment

... struggles for equality and liberty in Turkey and beyond. Drawing on the collective history of struggles and different forms and scales of action, this making of the dissident body politic weaves together embodied public performances; mediatized communicative labor, including online forums, commissions...

... world, while also being careful to not rely on the identities we embody to secure a certain kind of politics. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Croatoan . 2012 . “ Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation .” Escalating Identity...

... critically works through and beyond such encounters—both spectral and embodied—in an attempt to open speculatively onto possible revisions of contemporary debates in feminism and onto shifts in the ground of left coalitional politics. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 birth certificate HB2 trans...

... . 2015b . “ ‘Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin?’: Embodiment, Boundaries, and Somatechnics .” Hypatia 30 , no. 1 : 13 – 30 . Soldatic Karen Meekosha Helen . 2012 . “ The Place of Disgust: Disability, Class, and Gender in Spaces of Workfare .” Societies 2 , no. 3 : 139 – 56...

... powerfully disrupts the influence of respecta- bility politics. Further, my interlocutors unwillingness to malign their sis- ters for engaging in sexual labor productively complicated dominant repre- sentations of model TWOC in popular media whose early success hinged on their embodiment of transnormative...

... and with different political conse­ quences, Synners reasserts gender and race as defining elements of post-human identity so that, even as Synners discursively represents different forms of technological embodiment, it also reasserts the critical importance of the materiality of bodies in any analysis...

... and embodied mark of distinction where the biological and the social connect in “a medium of hierarchic power and governance” (Munn 1992: 109).10 Johannes Fabian’s (1983: 29) “physical time” can become “political physics” or mobility physics, whereby the occu- pation deems it “impossible for two bodies...

...Mel Y. Chen This essay considers the possibilities of an embodied archive of political agitation through an expanded notion of gesture. It weaves a set of infrequently attested relations in productive comparison: the political gestures of resistance, the embodiment of disability, the expansion...

... of racial identity from a public icon to a collective political body. Focusing on the public response to the controversial 1986 Detroit statue Monument to Joe Louis , sculpted by Mexican American artist Robert Graham, the essay suggests that public art created on behalf of cross-racial healing most...

...Bruce Buchan This paper explores the figurative significance of Niccolò Machiavelli's lurid account in The Prince of the death scene of Remirro de Orco in Cesena in 1502. This death scene represents a fundamental challenge to the ancient metaphor of the body politic whose health consisted...

... . “The Black Female Body at the Intersection of State Failure and Necropower.” Contemporary Political Theory 15 , no. 1 : 105 – 9 . Threadcraft Shatema . 2016b . “Embodiment.” In Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory , edited by Disch Lisa Hawkesworth Mary , 207 – 26 . New York...

..., such as those launched by the nation- 756 Birgit Meyer state. Following Rancière, in exploring this, it would be mistaken to reiter- ate conventional distinctions between religion and politics, as both have aesthetics—“born out of the discourse of the body,” to invoke Eagleton once more54...

..., embodied histories are (re)created, new and valid practices are formed, and collective memory is weaponized against the annihilation of dominant ideal cognition. The current political moment shines light on the plausibility of this claim. This process, I argue, pushes back against the superficial call...

... community. Familial and social rela- Meari • Sumud: Confrontation in Colonial Prisons  573 tions were politicized throughout this process. Families felt deep pride for their daughters’ and sons’ sumud and felt ashamed by their confessions. That is, pride and honor were...

... Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today . London : Pluto . Houston Donna . 2013 . “Crisis Is Where We Live: Environmental Justice for the Anthropocene.” Globalizations 10 , no. 3 : 439 – 50 . Iengo Ilenia Armiero Marco . 2017 . “The Politicization of Ill Bodies...

... of heat at an annual festival, renovation of buildings driven by love of place, and the embodied circulation of a miner's stance. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 Appalachia materiality mining sensation temporality References Anand Nikhil . 2012 . “Municipal Disconnect...

... within the body politic under- pins and enables our society’s norms of embodied personhood. Houston Case Study The November 2015 defeat of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) offers a compelling recent case study regarding the manner in which trans- gender presence in public toilets has...

..., n. 26. 42 See Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, 138. 43 Slavoj Zizek, For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (London, 1991), 143. This paradox of the ascetic s body as embodying denial and therefore constantly pointing to the body that it also strives to conceal...

... Schmitt’s earlier The Concept of the Political, the sovereign enjoystherighttopolitics. And modern politics is defined by three notions: (1) a friend/enemy distinction, in which the enemy is the just enemy; (2) the sovereignty of both friend and enemy; and (3) war between the parties, in which...

... Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing . New York : New York University Press . Penner Barbara . 2005 . “Researching Female Public Toilets: Gendered Spaces, Disciplinary Limits.” Journal of International Women's Studies 6 , no. 2 : 81 – 98 . Plaskow Judith . 2008 . “Embodiment...