Embodied activisms : performative expressions of political and social action / edited by Victoria A. Newsom [and eleven others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lengel, Lara Martin, editor.

Newsom, Victoria A., editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation.

Pressure groups.

Social action.

Social movements.

social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

Embodied Activisms explores activists' use of their bodies to resist hegemonic power and promote justice. This book spans historical perspectives, current contexts including police accountability activism and Black Lives Matter, and the most recent scholarship to interrogate activist engagement from the Americas to the Mediterranean.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Ouverture: Embodied Activisms

Theorizing Embodied Activisms

Witnessing, Remembering

Silence and In/Visibility

Notes

Part I: Theorizing Embodied Activisms: Section I

Chapter 1: Centuries of In/Visibility: The Origins of Embodied Activism as Theory and Practice

Resistance through Embodied Activism

Hypervisible Embodied Activisms

Invisible Embodied Activisms

Emphatically Visible Activisms

Authenticated Visible Activisms

Chapter 2: Police Accountability Activism as Feminist Ethics: Theorizing Nonviolent Embodied Witnessing

Police Accountability, Past and Present

Theorizing Police Accountability Activism

Embodied Practice

Embodiment in Discourse

Relationships with Strangers

PAA and Feminist Philosophy

Feminist Theory's Contribution to Understanding PAA

Patriarchal Patterns

Assessing PAA's "Product"

Establishing Best Practices

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Visual Disruptions as Embodied Activism: Leisure Spectacle Demonstration

Definitions and Affordances

Limitations and Novel Analytical Frames

Field Observations and Methodology

Polka, Tango, and Yoga for Collective Bargaining and Fair Governance

Biking for Open Roadways and Environmental Awareness

Floating along the River to Remove Its Dams

Leisure Acts of Performative Defiance

Concluding Remarks

Note

Chapter 4: The (De)meaning of Incorruptible Flesh: Marginalized Bodies and the Performance of Desire

Ron Athey: A Harsh Life

Incorruptible Flesh (Dissociative Sparkle)

Ron Athey's Desiring Body

Bearing Witness

Chapter 5: Lay Down Your "Body Burdens" and Write: (Re)Forming Environmental Science through Narratives of Toxicity and Healing.

Part II: Witnessing, Remembering: Section II

Chapter 6: Palestinian Dedications, Commitments, and Persistence: Decolonial Memory-Work during the 17th Anniversary of the Nakba

Speaking to the World with Bodies and Blood

The Nakba, Memory-Work, and Resistance

The History of Palestine until the First Nakba

Resistant Bodies and Protests as Rhetoric

Palestinian Memory-Work: Past, Present, and Future

Remembering, Resisting, and Imagining

Remembering the Trauma-A Dedication to the Past

Creating a Collective Identity-A Commitment to the Present

Accepting the Responsibility-Persistence to Imagine the Future

The Catastrophe Does Not End on May 16

Chapter 7: Embodied Witnessing and the Struggle for Memory in Budapest's Szabadságszínpad Protests

Theorizing Witnessing

Embodied Performance and Szabadságszínpad

Chapter 8: An Actor-Network Approach: The Role of Art in Public Spaces in the Gezi Protests

Gezi in Review: Identifying the Gaps and the Media Landscape

On Actor-Network Theory: An Overview

The Role of Art in Public Spaces in the Gezi Protests

The Role of Art in Social Movements

The Role of Public Space in Social Movements

"The Standing Man"

"The Whirling Dervish with a Gas Mask"

Penguin Street Art: The Standing Penguin with a Gas Mask

Part III: Silence and In/Visibility: Section III

Chapter 9: A Handmaid's Tale of Protest: Analyzing Intersectionality through Silence-Body-Image

Silence-Bodies-Image

A Handmaid's Tale of Protest

Chapter 10: Embodied (L)activism: Mothering and/as Embodied Nourishing

Feminist Rhetorical Criticism

A Feminist Reading of the Big Latch On

Personal Posts and Other Information

Global Big Latch On Event

Breastfeeding Support and Education

Finding a Way Forward.

Conclusion

Chapter 11: Subversive Silence: Productive Discomfort as Embodied Activism

Silence as Communication and Agitation

Method

Day of Silence

Why Silence?

Raises Awareness

Invites Reflection

Builds Community

Leads to Productive Discomfort

Provides Space for Listening

Silence Is a Mode of Speech

Unintended Consequences

Emesis of Signs

New Responses in New Situations

Nonviolence versus Silence

Characteristics of Subversive Silences

Chapter 12: Emerging Activisms: Responding to Current and Future Crises

The Weight of Our Efforts

Intersectional/Intergenerational Activist-Scholars

Where Next?

Codetta

Bibliography

Index

About the Editors and Contributors

Editors

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-66699-019-1

1-7936-1653-1

OCLC:

1286674612