Bodies of Democracy: Modes of Embodied Politics

Amanda Machin

Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Bodies of Democracy

Modes of Embodied Politics

Amanda Machin

Volume 84 in the series Edition Politik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839449233

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About this book

Where are all the bodies? Political institutions are populated by living breathing human beings, who eat, sleep, gesture, desire and suffer. And yet participants of the political realm are often depicted as disembodied minds, detached and distinct from their corporeal existence. Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: identification, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael Polyani, Simone de Beauvoir, Donna Haraway and Judith Butler, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways that human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics, but the generative subjects of democracy.

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Amanda Machin lives, works and teaches in Germany as a Professor of International Political Studies at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. Her research focuses upon the politics of citizenship, identity, environment, embodiment and agonistic democracy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Introduction: A Political Remembering of Bodies
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Thinking the Body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Modes of Politics and Chapter Outline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Chapter 1. Embodied Representation: Performances of Identity
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1.1 Delegates and Trustees: Acting for Others Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
1.2 Descriptive Representation: Standing for Others Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
1.3 Constitutive Representation: Performing for Others Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
1.4 Bodies of Representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
1.5 “I am what you call a hooligan” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
1.6 “Mother of the Nation” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
1.7 Strange Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
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Chapter 2. Embodied Deliberation: Conditions, Excesses, Disruptions, Opportunities
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2.1 Disembodied Deliberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
2.2 Bodies Matter: Conditions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
2.3 Bodies Matter: Excesses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
2.4 Bodies Matter: Disruptions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
2.5 Bodies Matter: Opportunities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
2.6 Bodies of Deliberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
2.7 Beyond Deliberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
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Chapter 3. Embodied Disagreement: The Agony of Others
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3.1 Us and Them Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
3.2 Habits of Us Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
3.3 Bodies of Others Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
3.4 Cultivating Agonistic Respect Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
3.5 Democratic Disagreements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
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Chapter 4. Embodied Protest: The Politics of the Hunger-Strike
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4.1 Hunger as protest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
4.2 Irish republicans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
4.3 Suffragettes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
4.4 Anti-apartheid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
4.5 The spectacular body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
4.6 The identifying/identified body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
4.7 The dissenting body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
4.8 Hunger and Paradox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
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Chapter 5. Embodied Occupation: Disciplined Bodies in Counter-Conduct
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5.1 Conducting and Countering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
5.2 Twyford Down Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
5.3 Dimensions of Occupying Bodies at Twyford Down Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
5.4 Roads to Resistance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
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Chapter 6. Embodied Counsel: Bodies of Knowledge
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6.1 Scientific Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
6.2 Knowledge of Bodies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
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6.4 Expertise and Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
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Conclusion: Recalling Bodies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 186
Keywords: Bodies; Embodiment; Politics; Participation; Identification; Deliberation; Disagreement; Protest; Occupation; Counsel; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Michael Polyani; Simone De Beauvoir; Donna Haraway; Judith Butler; Body; Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Political Science

eBook

Published: February 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839449233