Embodied Activisms: Performative Expressions of Political and Social Action

Victoria A. Newsom; Lara Martin Lengel

doi:10.5771/9781793616531

Summary

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.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-1652-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-1653-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 306
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. 1. Theorizing Embodied Activisms No access
  2. Witnessing, Remembering No access
  3. Silence and In/Visibility No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. Resistance through Embodied Activism No access
  2. Hypervisible Embodied Activisms No access
  3. Invisible Embodied Activisms No access
  4. Emphatically Visible Activisms No access
  5. Authenticated Visible Activisms No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. 1. 1. Embodied Practice No access
      2. Embodiment in Discourse No access
      3. Relationships with Strangers No access
    2. PAA and Feminist Philosophy No access
    3. 1. Patriarchal Patterns No access
      2. Assessing PAA’s “Product” No access
      3. Establishing Best Practices No access
  2. Conclusion No access
  3. Notes No access
3. 1. Definitions and Affordances No access
  2. Limitations and Novel Analytical Frames No access
  3. Field Observations and Methodology No access
  4. Polka, Tango, and Yoga for Collective Bargaining and Fair Governance No access
  5. Biking for Open Roadways and Environmental Awareness No access
  6. Floating along the River to Remove Its Dams No access
  7. Leisure Acts of Performative Defiance No access
  8. Concluding Remarks No access
  9. Note No access
4. 1. Ron Athey: A Harsh Life No access
  2. Incorruptible Flesh (Dissociative Sparkle) No access
  3. Ron Athey’s Desiring Body No access
  4. Bearing Witness No access
5. Chapter 5: Lay Down Your “Body Burdens” and Write: (Re)Forming Environmental Science through Narratives of Toxicity and Healing No access
1. 1. Speaking to the World with Bodies and Blood No access
  2. 1. The History of Palestine until the First Nakba No access
    2. Resistant Bodies and Protests as Rhetoric No access
    3. Palestinian Memory-Work: Past, Present, and Future No access
    4. Remembering, Resisting, and Imagining No access
    5. Remembering the Trauma—A Dedication to the Past No access
    6. Creating a Collective Identity—A Commitment to the Present No access
    7. Accepting the Responsibility—Persistence to Imagine the Future No access
  3. The Catastrophe Does Not End on May 16 No access
2. 1. Theorizing Witnessing No access
  2. Embodied Performance and Szabadságszínpad No access
  3. Conclusion No access
3. 1. 1. On Actor-Network Theory: An Overview No access
  2. 1. The Role of Art in Social Movements No access
    2. 1. “The Standing Man” No access
      2. “The Whirling Dervish with a Gas Mask” No access
      3. Penguin Street Art: The Standing Penguin with a Gas Mask No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. Silence-Bodies-Image No access
  2. A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Note No access
2. 1. Feminist Rhetorical Criticism No access
  2. 1. Personal Posts and Other Information No access
    2. Global Big Latch On Event No access
    3. Breastfeeding Support and Education No access
  3. Finding a Way Forward No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Note No access
3. 1. Silence as Communication and Agitation No access
  2. Method No access
  3. 1. Why Silence? No access
    2. Raises Awareness No access
    3. Invites Reflection No access
    4. Builds Community No access
    5. Leads to Productive Discomfort No access
    6. Provides Space for Listening No access
    7. Silence Is a Mode of Speech No access
    8. Unintended Consequences No access
    9. Emesis of Signs No access
    10. New Responses in New Situations No access
    11. Nonviolence versus Silence No access
  4. Characteristics of Subversive Silences No access
  5. Note No access
4. 1. The Weight of Our Efforts No access
  2. Intersectional/Intergenerational Activist-Scholars No access
  3. Where Next? No access
  4. Codetta No access
  5. Note No access
Bibliography No access Pages 237 - 280
Index No access Pages 281 - 300
1. Editors No access
2. Contributors No access