Bodies of Democracy

Modes of Embodied Politics
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4923-9
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 297 g

Reihe: Political science

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 considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: representation, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael Polanyi, Simone de Beauvoir, Donna Haraway and Judith Butler, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics, but the generative subjects of democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Machin, Amanda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Machin is professor of International Political Studies at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. Her research focuses on the politics of citizenship, identity, embodiment, the environment and agonistic democracy.