Full Description
Embodied Activisms explores how activists use their bodies to resist social norms, engage with institutions, and promote change. This book spans historical perspectives, current contexts, and the most current scholarly literature to interrogate how embodied activisms are read, performed, understood, and actualized. The studies in this volume address current, critical issues such as police accountability activism, the climate crisis, environmental concerns, and protests of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Chapters analyze a wide range of nonviolent mobilization tactics, including silent protests, embodied witnessing, leisure spectacle demonstrations, performance art and other forms of creative practice, and rallies. Analyses engage with aspects of intersectionality in activism and critique diverse modes of embodied resistance in locations including East Central Europe, the Americas, and the Mediterranean region.
Contents
Table of Contents
Ouverture: Embodied Activisms
Victoria A. Newsom & Lara Martin Lengel
Section I: Theorizing Embodied Activisms
Chapter 1: Centuries of In/Visibility: Origins of Embodied Activism as Theory and Practice Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel, and Desiree A. Montenegro
Chapter 2: Police Accountability Activism as Feminist Ethics: Theorizing Non-Violent Embodied Witnessing
Mary Angela Bock
Chapter 3: Visual Disruptions as Embodied Activism: Leisure Spectacle Demonstration Casey R. Schmitt
Chapter 4: The [De]meaning of Incorruptible Flesh: Marginalized Bodies and the Performance of Desire
Billy Huff & Margaret Cavin Hambrick
Chapter 5: Lay Down Your 'Body Burdens' and Write: (Re)Forming Environmental Science
Through Narratives of Toxicity and Healing
Arlene Plevin
Section II: Witnessing, Remembering
Chapter 6: Palestinian Dedications, Commitments, and Persistence: Decolonial Memory-work During the Seventieth Anniversary of the Nabka
Sarah Cathryn Majed Dweik
