Bodies of Democracy : : Modes of Embodied Politics /

Bodies of Democracy : : Modes of Embodied Politics / / Amanda Machin.

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 consid...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
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Machin, Amanda,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edition Politik ; 84
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: A Political Remembering of Bodies
  • Introduction
  • Thinking the Body
  • Modes of Politics and Chapter Outline
  • References
  • Chapter 1. Embodied Representation: Performances of Identity
  • Introduction
  • 1.1 Delegates and Trustees: Acting for Others
  • 1.2 Descriptive Representation: Standing for Others
  • 1.3 Constitutive Representation: Performing for Others
  • 1.4 Bodies of Representation
  • 1.5 “I am what you call a hooligan”
  • 1.6 “Mother of the Nation”
  • 1.7 Strange Democracy
  • References
  • Chapter 2. Embodied Deliberation: Conditions, Excesses, Disruptions, Opportunities
  • Introduction
  • 2.1 Disembodied Deliberation
  • 2.2 Bodies Matter: Conditions
  • 2.3 Bodies Matter: Excesses
  • 2.4 Bodies Matter: Disruptions
  • 2.5 Bodies Matter: Opportunities
  • 2.6 Bodies of Deliberation
  • 2.7 Beyond Deliberation
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Embodied Disagreement: The Agony of Others
  • Introduction
  • 3.1 Us and Them
  • 3.2 Habits of Us
  • 3.3 Bodies of Others
  • 3.4 Cultivating Agonistic Respect
  • 3.5 Democratic Disagreements
  • References
  • Chapter 4. Embodied Protest: The Politics of the Hunger-Strike
  • Introduction
  • 4.1 Hunger as protest
  • 4.2 Irish republicans
  • 4.3 Suffragettes
  • 4.4 Anti-apartheid
  • 4.5 The spectacular body
  • 4.6 The identifying/identified body
  • 4.7 The dissenting body
  • 4.8 Hunger and Paradox
  • References
  • Chapter 5. Embodied Occupation: Disciplined Bodies in Counter-Conduct
  • Introduction
  • 5.1 Conducting and Countering
  • 5.2 Twyford Down
  • 5.3 Dimensions of Occupying Bodies at Twyford Down
  • 5.4 Roads to Resistance
  • References
  • Chapter 6. Embodied Counsel: Bodies of Knowledge
  • Introduction
  • 6.1 Scientific Knowledge
  • 6.2 Knowledge of Bodies
  • 6.3 Bodies of Knowledge
  • 6.4 Expertise and Democracy
  • References
  • Conclusion: Recalling Bodies
  • References

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