Bodies of Democracy: Modes of Embodied Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783837649239)

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.

Author: Amanda Machin
ISBN-10: 3837649237
ISBN-13: 9783837649239
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2022
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d