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Book SynopsisWhere 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Political Remembering of Bodies; Embodied Representation: Performances of Identity; Embodied Deliberation: Conditions, Excesses, Disruptions, Opportunities; Embodied Disagreement: The Agony of Others; Embodied Protest: The Politics of the Hunger-Strike; Introduction; Embodied Occupation: Disciplined Bodies in Counter-Conduct; Embodied Counsel: Bodies of Knowledge; Conclusion: Recalling Bodies.
