The body in crisis : new pathways and short circuits in representation / Christine Greiner ; translated by Christopher Larkosh and Grace Holleran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greiner, Christine, author.

Series:

Studies in dance: theories and practices.

Studies in dance: theories and practices

Standardized Title:

Corpo em crise. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Body language.

Nonverbal communication.

Dance--Social aspects.

Dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Language Note:

Translated from the Portuguese.

Summary:

The Body in Crisis introduces the English-speaking world to the work of leading Latin American dance scholar and philosopher of the body, Christine Greiner. The book offers an innovative set of tools with which to examine the role of moving bodies and bodily actions in relation to worldwide concerns, including identity politics, alterity, migration, and belonging. The book places the concept of bodymedium in dialogue with the work of Giorgio Agamben to investigate notions of alterity, and shows how an understanding of the body-environment continuum can shed light on things left unnamed and at the margins. Greiner's analyses draw from a broad range of theory concerned with the epistemology of the body, including cognitive science, political philosophy, evolutionary biology, and performance studies to illuminate radical experiences that question the limits of the body. Her analysis of the role that bodies play in negotiations of power relations offers an original and unprecedented contribution to the field of dance studies and expands its scope to recognize theoretical models of inquiry developed in the Global South.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword | Cristina Fernandes Rosa

Translators' Note | Christopher Larkosh and Grace Holleran

Preface to the English Edition | Christine Greiner

Introduction

Part I: Networks of Destabilization

1. The Agents of the Crisis

2. Metaphoric Epidemics: The Appetite for Deterritorialization

Part II: Operators of Resistance

3. Principles of Experience: The Profaning Aptitudes of the Organism

4. Circuits of Activation

Part III: Paradigms of Immunization

5. Systemic Crises

Notes

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-113)

Description based on information from the publisher.

Other Format:

Print version: Greiner, Christine The Body in Crisis

ISBN:

9780472128709

0472128701