Somapower: Somaesthetics Reads Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004697799)

We do politics in, through, and as bodies. All our political activity is inevitably corporeal. Parliamentary debates, party assemblies, street demonstrations, and civil disobedience are all bodily actions. Political regimes maintain their power by controlling our bodies, both through explicit acts of violence and, more insidiously, by inculcating somatic norms of obedience to the political authorities and ideologies. This oppression can be effectively challenged if we use somaesthetics to identify and examine the bodily habits and feelings that express and reinforce such domination. Somaesthetically explored, they can be refashioned and help overcome the oppressive social conditions that produce them.

Author: Leszek Koczanowicz
ISBN-10: 9004697799
ISBN-13: 9789004697799
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2024
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover