Tarja Väyrynen, Eeva Puumala, Samu Pehkonen, Anitta Kynsilehto, Tiina Vaittinen

Choreographies of Resistance (eBook, ePUB)

Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant nurses, the book attests to the scope and diversity of corporeal resistance in the realm of politics. It is shown that bodies that are not assumed to have political agency can obstruct and resist the smooth functioning of disciplinary practices that nowadays form the core of migration policies. It is argued that the body is more than a mere target of politics. In so doing, the book contributes to the study of the political significance of movement, mobility and the nonverbal. The body opens up a space of political resistance and action. The resistant body poses a challenge that is both praxical and philosophical: it ultimately invites us to reconsider the meanings and content of political space, community and belonging..

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783486748
• Artikelnr.: 47510076

Autorenporträt

Tarja Väyrynen is Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere, Finland. She is author of Culture and International Conflict Resolution and many articles and book chapters, including those published in the Review of International Studies, Alternatives: Local, Global, Political, International Journal of Conflict Resolution and Engagement and International Feminist Journal of Politics. She was the Head Researcher on the Academy of Finland funded research project 'The Body Politic of Migration - Embodied and Silent Choreographies of Political Agency'.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Choreography, Mobility and Politics
2. Exploring Choreographies of Resistance
3. Postcolonial Space and Entangled Corporeal Choreographies
4. Liminal Space of Relationality and Disturbance
5. Urban Space of Mundane Interaction
6. Conclusions: Unfolding into the Future