Can I read Choreographies of Resistance: Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics (Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds) on EtoBox?

Choreographies of Resistance: Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics (Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds) by Väyrynen Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Tarja, Puumala Researcher in International Relations, Eeva, Pehkonen Researcher in Human Geography, Samu, Kynsilehto Senior Researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute University of Tampere Finland, Anitta, Vaittinen, Tiina is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Choreographies of Resistance: Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics (Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds) about?

Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant nurses, the book attests to the scope and diversity of corporeal resistance in the realm of politics. It is shown that bodies that are not assumed to have political agency can obstruct and resist the smooth functioning of disciplinary practices that nowadays form the core of migration policies. It is argued that the body is more than a mere target of politics. In so doing, the book contributes to the study of the political significance of movement, mobility and the nonverbal. The body opens up a space of political resistance and action. The resistant body poses a challenge that is both praxical and philosophical: it ultimately invites us to reconsider the meanings and content of political space, community and belonging.. ** Review In its close attention to the roles of bodies and events, the project is commendable for both scope and originality, and for the lines of novel scholarship that it opens.... Choreographies o

Author

Väyrynen Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Tarja, Puumala Researcher in International Relations, Eeva, Pehkonen Researcher in Human Geography, Samu, Kynsilehto Senior Researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute University of Tampere Finland, Anitta, Vaittinen, Tiina

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783486731

Subjects

Political Science, Philosophy, Social_sciences