Description
Book SynopsisEmbodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance takes a deep dive into representational spaces of social science theory and research, positioning post-structuralist frameworks as potent tools in ongoing fights against injustice and inequity. In this interactive text, the reader takes a discursive tour through theoretical and imagistic landscapes that offer options for liberated existence and expression from repression and moralism. By foregrounding the double articulation of what is articulated through language and what is shown through visual material, Embodying Theory furthers an argument that there are numerous ways to embody, interpret and interact with meaning across cultural, materialist and populist platforms, to strategically create counter-narratives in the service of building peaceable, inclusive, sustainable and joyful futures.
Embodying Theory offers a series of writings and images to make theory walk, recasting major post-structur
Trade Review
“It is rare, indeed, to discover a book on theory that excites. Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance is that rarity. It is dedicated to peaceable warriors, and I would add, to generations of future scholars who read imagery as fluently as words. Of its many unique features, Embodying Theory demystifies representation. On that basis alone, it is destined to become required reading across disciplines.” —Donna Alvermann, The Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education and Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia
Table of Contents
List of Figures – IMAGINATION – Introduction: Locating the Imaginary Horizon – KNOWLEDGE – Mapping Rhizomatic Lines: Engendering Promiscuous Epistemologies – SUBJECTIVITY – Tactical Subjects: Ethical Pleasure in Resistance – EMBODIMENT – Embodied Politics and Strategic Aesthetics – ACTION – Collective Action: Make Theory Walk – Works Cited.
