Bodies of Democracy Modes of Embodied Politics Amanda Machin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Machin, Amanda <p>Amanda Machin, University of Agder, Norwegen</p>, Author.

Series:

Zheng zhi xue lun cong ; Volume 84.

Edition Politik

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Bodies.

Embodiment.

Politics.

Participation.

Identification.

Deliberation.

Disagreement.

Protest.

Occupation.

Counsel.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Michael Polyani.

Simone De Beauvoir.

Donna Haraway.

Judith Butler.

Body.

Political Theory.

Political Philosophy.

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

Democracy.

Bodies.

Embodiment.

Politics.

Participation.

Identification.

Deliberation.

Disagreement.

Protest.

Occupation.

Counsel.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Michael Polyani.

Simone De Beauvoir.

Donna Haraway.

Judith Butler.

Body.

Political Theory.

Political Philosophy.

Political Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Machin, Bodies of Democracy Modes of Embodied Politics

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022

Biography/History:

Amanda Machin is a professor of sociology at the University of Agder, Norway. Her research focuses on radical democracy and environmental politics.

Summary:

Where 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.

»Eine fundierte Auseinandersetzung mit wichtigen Theoriedebatten der letzten Jahrzehnte. Brisante Fragen der Gegenwart, wie die Frage nach der Krise der Repräsentation oder die nach der Legitimität von Deliberation, werden engagiert aufgegriffen und aus feministischer und postmoderner Sicht kritisch reflektiert.«

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 13 Thinking the Body 16 Modes of Politics and Chapter Outline 21 References 28 Introduction 35 1.1 Delegates and Trustees: Acting for Others 39 1.2 Descriptive Representation: Standing for Others 41 1.3 Constitutive Representation: Performing for Others 42 1.4 Bodies of Representation 45 1.5 "I am what you call a hooligan" 47 1.6 "Mother of the Nation" 51 1.7 Strange Democracy 54 References 55 Introduction 61 2.1 Disembodied Deliberation 63 2.2 Bodies Matter: Conditions 67 2.3 Bodies Matter: Excesses 70 2.4 Bodies Matter: Disruptions 72 2.5 Bodies Matter: Opportunities 75 2.6 Bodies of Deliberation 77 2.7 Beyond Deliberation 78 References 79 Introduction 85 3.1 Us and Them 89 3.2 Habits of Us 91 3.3 Bodies of Others 96 3.4 Cultivating Agonistic Respect 99 3.5 Democratic Disagreements 101 References 102 Introduction 107 4.1 Hunger as protest 110 4.2 Irish republicans 111 4.3 Suffragettes 116 4.4 Anti-apartheid 120 4.5 The spectacular body 122 4.6 The identifying/identified body 124 4.7 The dissenting body 127 4.8 Hunger and Paradox 129 References 130 Introduction 137 5.1 Conducting and Countering 139 5.2 Twyford Down 143 5.3 Dimensions of Occupying Bodies at Twyford Down 145 5.4 Roads to Resistance 152 References 154 Introduction 157 6.1 Scientific Knowledge 160 6.2 Knowledge of Bodies 164 6.3 Bodies of Knowledge 168 6.4 Expertise and Democracy 172 References 174 Conclusion: Recalling Bodies 179 References 183

Other Format:

Print version: Machin, Amanda Bodies of Democracy

ISBN:

3-8394-4923-5

OCLC:

1299382384