African Somaesthetics

Cultures, Feminisms, Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44295-5
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Reihe: Studies in Somaesthetics

In African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics, Catherine F. Botha brings together original research on the body in African cultures, specifically interrogating the possibilities of the contribution of a somaesthetic approach in the context of colonization, decolonization, and globalization in Africa.

The innovative contributions that consider the somaesthetic dimensions of experience in the context of Africa (centred broadly around the themes of politics, feminisms, and cultures) reflect a diversity of perspectives and positions. The book is a first of its kind in gathering together novel and focused analyses of the body as conceived of from an African perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Botha, Catherine

Weitere Mitwirkende

Botha, Catherine F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

African Somaesthetics as Provocation

Catherine F Botha

PART 1

Untouchable Bodies

1 The Untouchable Body

Gerard M. Samuel

2 The Other as Unbeautiful: Analytic Somaesthetics, Disgust and the Albinotic Body in African Traditions

Elvis Imafidon

PART 2

Black Bodies

3 Black Bodies, “Black Panther”

Paul C. Taylor, Sarah DiMaggio, Holly Longair, and Takunda Matose

4 Re-Imagining Race through Daai za Lady & Butoh

Jackï Job

5 Necro-being and the Black Body: an Interview with Leonard Harris

Leonard Harris and Catherine Botha

PART 3

Dancing Bodies

6 Sensing the Stage: Decolonial Readings of African Contemporary Dance

Rainy Demerson

7 Self-knowledge through Dance: Considering the Female Break Dancer in South Africa

Devon Bailey

8 Learning to Speak in My Mother Tongue: Ruminating on Contemporary Decolonising Dance Practices for Myself and My African Continent

Lliane Loots

PART 4

Changing Bodies

9 Walking and Stumbling: the Aesthetic as Agitator for Activism

Sara Matchett

10 Skinstory---Migratory Experiences and the Transformational Power of Performative Means of Expression

Monika Lilleike

11 Disinfect This! Scato-Aesthetic Indictments of South Africa’s Cultural, Social, and Spatial Divisions

Matthias Pauwels

Name Index

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine F. Botha (Ph.D., Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen) is professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She uses her expertise in the phenomenological tradition and its precursors in the continental tradition (most especially the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger) as a lens through which to approach the focus of her research - the philosophy of art, with a special focus on the philosophy of dance. She has published numerous articles and chapters in the philosophy of dance, with her most recent publication “The Dancing Body and the Transmission of Collective Memory in South Africa” appearing in the Routledge Companion to Dance Studies in 2020.