{"product_id":"embodied-activisms-performative-expressions-of-political-and-social-action-9781793616524","title":"Embodied Activisms: Performative Expressions of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmbodied 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pioneering publication proposes a provocative, profound reconceptualization of the body’s role in activism from an instrument that ‘performs activism’ to a constitutive site of resistance and generative source of ‘embodied activism’ opposing oppression grounded in bodily differences. Using original, contemporary case studies of bodily actions (from protesting to witnessing) challenging gender, racial, and ethnic oppression, contributors explicate the tenets, explanatory power, and significance of Newsom and Lengel’s Theory of Embodied Activism. Their research reveals important contributions the theory makes to the study of activism, such as the documented transformative experience of participatory, body-based action showing the need to expand the dominant focus on the effects of activism on social change.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Lawrence R. Frey, University of Colorado, Boulder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOuverture: Embodied Activisms \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictoria A. Newsom \u0026amp; Lara Martin Lengel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection I: Theorizing Embodied Activisms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Centuries of In\/Visibility: Origins of Embodied Activism as Theory and Practice Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel, and Desiree A. Montenegro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Police Accountability Activism as Feminist Ethics: Theorizing Non-Violent Embodied Witnessing \u003cbr\u003eMary Angela Bock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Visual Disruptions as Embodied Activism: Leisure Spectacle Demonstration Casey R. Schmitt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The [De]meaning of Incorruptible Flesh: Marginalized Bodies and the Performance of Desire \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilly Huff \u0026amp; Margaret Cavin Hambrick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Lay Down Your 'Body Burdens' and Write: (Re)Forming Environmental Science\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough Narratives of Toxicity and Healing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArlene Plevin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection II: Witnessing, Remembering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Palestinian Dedications, Commitments, and Persistence: Decolonial Memory-work During the Seventieth Anniversary of the Nabka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Cathryn Majed Dweik\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Embodied Witnessing and the Struggle for Memory in Budapest’s Szabadságszínpad Protests \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie Bennie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: An Actor-Network Approach: The Role of Art in Public Spaces in the Gezi Protests \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNora Suren\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection III: Silence and In\/Visibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest: Analyzing Intersectionality in Silence-Body-Image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJordin Clark\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Embodied (L)Activism: Mothering and\/as Embodied Nourishing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMolly Wiant Cummins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Subversive Silence: Productive Discomfort as Embodied Activism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSakina Jangbar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Emerging Activisms: Responding to Current and Future Crises\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesiree A. Montenegro, Victoria A. Newsom, and Lara Martin Lengel\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042636955991,"sku":"9781793616524","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/embodied-activisms-performative-expressions-of-political-and-social-action-9781793616524","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}