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Somapower: Somaesthetics Reads Politics
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We do politics in, through, and as bodies. All our political activity is inevitably corporeal. Parliamentary debates, party assemblies, street demonstrations, and civil disobedience are all bodily ...
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30 May 2024

We do politics in, through, and as bodies. All our political activity is inevitably corporeal. Parliamentary debates, party assemblies, street demonstrations, and civil disobedience are all bodily actions. Political regimes maintain their power by controlling our bodies, both through explicit acts of violence and, more insidiously, by inculcating somatic norms of obedience to the political authorities and ideologies. This oppression can be effectively challenged if we use somaesthetics to identify and examine the bodily habits and feelings that express and reinforce such domination. Somaesthetically explored, they can be refashioned and help overcome the oppressive social conditions that produce them.
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Pages: 210
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Somaesthetics
Publication Date:
30 May 2024
ISBN: 9789004697799
Format: Hardcover
Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Cultural Studies and Political Science at the SWPS University, Poland. He has authored and edited twelve books and numerous articles on the theory of culture, social theory, and cultural aspects of politics, recently Emancipatory Power of the Body in Everyday Life: Niches of Liberation (Palgrave, 2023).