Embodied Activisms (eBook, ePUB)

Performative Expressions of Political and Social Action
Redaktion: Newsom, Victoria A.; Lengel, Lara Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Embodied Activisms explores how activists use their bodies to resist social norms, engage with institutions, and promote change. This book spans historical perspectives, current contexts, and the most current scholarly literature to interrogate how embodied activisms are read, performed, understood, and actualized. The studies in this volume address current, critical issues such as police accountability activism, the climate crisis, environmental concerns, and protests of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Chapters analyze a wide range of nonviolent mobilization tactics, including silent protests, embodied witnessing, leisure spectacle demonstrations, performance art and other forms of creative practice, and rallies. Analyses engage with aspects of intersectionality in activism and critique diverse modes of embodied resistance in locations including East Central Europe, the Americas, and the Mediterranean region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793616531
• Artikelnr.: 63260563

Autorenporträt

Victoria A. Newsom is professor of communication studies and affiliate faculty in social justice and diversity at Olympic College. Lara Martin Lengel is professor in the School of Media and Communication and affiliate faculty in women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Bowling Green State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Ouverture: Embodied Activisms
Victoria A. Newsom & Lara Martin Lengel
Section I: Theorizing Embodied Activisms
Chapter 1: Centuries of In/Visibility: Origins of Embodied Activism as
Theory and Practice Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel, and Desiree A.
Montenegro
Chapter 2: Police Accountability Activism as Feminist Ethics: Theorizing
Non-Violent Embodied Witnessing
Mary Angela Bock
Chapter 3: Visual Disruptions as Embodied Activism: Leisure Spectacle
Demonstration Casey R. Schmitt
Chapter 4: The [De]meaning of Incorruptible Flesh: Marginalized Bodies and
the Performance of Desire
Billy Huff & Margaret Cavin Hambrick
Chapter 5: Lay Down Your 'Body Burdens' and Write: (Re)Forming
Environmental Science
Through Narratives of Toxicity and Healing
Arlene Plevin
Section II: Witnessing, Remembering
Chapter 6: Palestinian Dedications, Commitments, and Persistence:
Decolonial Memory-work During the Seventieth Anniversary of the Nabka
Sarah Cathryn Majed Dweik