If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee

An Embodied Philosophy of Interconnection

Julia Metzger-Traber (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 141 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-22364-9 (ISBN)

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This book posits that the 'refugee crisis' may actually be a crisis of identity in a rapidly changing world. It argues that Western conceptions of the individual 'Self' shape metaphors of political homes, and thus the geopolitics of belonging and exclusion. Metzger-Traber creatively re-conceives political belonging by perceiving the interconnection of each 'Self' through its most immediate home - the breathing body. On an experimental literary journey through her own past and that of Germany, she puts political philosophy in conversation with somatic and spiritual insight to expand notions of 'Self' and 'Home'. Then she asks: What ethical imperatives arise? What kinds of homes and homelands would we create if we no longer thought we ended at our skin?

Julia Metzger-Traber is a peace researcher from the MA program in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is engaged in facilitating collaborative public art projects and community restorative justice processes as peace work.

The Borders of Belonging and the Question of Roots.- The Politics of Shaping Home.- An Emergent Ethic: Sensing Response-Ability.- A Practice of Paradox: Breathing Life into Theory.- Autopoiesis: Co-creating Home in Berlin.- Opening into the Abyss.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Masters of Peace
Zusatzinfo	XI, 141 p. 5 illus.
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	212 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Schlagworte	Border studies • Elicitive Conflict Transformation • Engaged Buddhism • ethics • Expressive Arts Therapy • Hospitality • Interbeing • Peace studies • political belonging • politics of touch • postmodern • Refugee crisis • Somatics • transrational peace philosophy • trauma healing
ISBN-10	3-658-22364-2 / 3658223642
ISBN-13	978-3-658-22364-9 / 9783658223649
Zustand	Neuware