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