Disembodiment
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-760853-1 (ISBN)
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As a work in global critical theory whose normative compass is the suffering body, Disembodiment brings together corporeal enactments of defiance and refusal from the global south with major thinkers of western modernity and prominent critical-theoretical traditions of the twentieth century. Bargu moves from such historical precedents as the suicides of enslaved Africans during the transatlantic crossing, the hunger strikes of woman suffragists in England's prisons, and Gandhian fasting practices in the Indian anticolonial struggle to contemporary examples that include the hunger and thirst strikes in the Maze and Guantánamo, the self-incineration of Mohammed Bouazizi, and the lip-sewing practices of migrants and asylum seekers in detention centers and border zones of the global north today. She takes the reader on an unsettling journey that delineates the emergence of a corporeal repertoire of contention. Performed by the powerless who find themselves in crisis, this repertoire is built on the expressive agency of the body and its ability to irrupt, undoing its training in composure and radicalizing the meaning of dignity.
Disembodiment presents a bold materialist theory of corporeal agency, which upholds the body's powers as fundamentally rebellious and ultimately undomesticatable
Banu Bargu is Professor in History of Consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research and publications are situated at the intersection of political and critical theory, anthropology, history of social movements and resistance practices, and Middle East politics. She is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons, which received the First Book Award given by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. She is the incoming co-editor of Political Theory, the flagship journal of the field.
Preface
Chapter I
Why Did Bouazizi Kill Himself?
Chapter II
The Other Bouazizis of Our Times: Disembodiment and Dignity
Chapter III
Suicide and the Modern Subject
Chapter IV
On "Futures Pitilessly Blocked and Passions Violently Choked": A Political History of Disembodiment
Chapter V
From the Maze to Guantánamo: The Violent Unmaking of the Modern Subject
Chapter VI
Corporeal Critique: The Undomesticatable and Expressive Agency
Chapter VII
Throwaway Bodies: Gestures of Refusal from the Global South
Chapter VIII
The Body Anterior: Toward a Materialism of Corporeal Agency
Chapter IX
Parrhesia of the Powerless
Conclusion
The Corporeal Repertoire of the Oppressed
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Heretical Thought |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 794 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-760853-1 / 0197608531 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-760853-1 / 9780197608531 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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