How We Walk : Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body

Beaumont, Matthew

Verso Books（2024/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781804290071
• DDC分類 325.301

Full Description

You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait reflect our social and political experiences as we navigate the city under capitalism. Through a series of dialogues with thinkers and walkers, his book explores the relationship between freedom and the human body

How We Walk foregrounds the work of Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist and leading thinker of liberation, who was one of the first people to think about the politics of 'walking while black'. It also introduces us to the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who wrote that one could discern the truth about a person through their posture and gait. For Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, the ability to walk upright and with ease is a sign of personal and social freedom.

Through these excursions, Beaumont reimagines the canonical literature on walking and presents a new interpretation of the impact of class and race on our physical and political mobility, raising important questions about the politics of the body.

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Body Arrested
1. The Racialized Body: Fanon Walks with Garnette Cadogan
2. The Exploited Body: Fanon Walks with Ernst Bloch
3. The Disordered Body: Fanon Walks with Nikolaus Friedreich
4. The Paralysed Body: Fanon Walks with Peter Moss
5. The Armoured Body: Fanon Walks with Wilhelm Reich
6. The Body Transformed: Fanon Walks with Assia Djebar

Notes
Index