@article{1484380,
      recid = {1484380},
      author = {Koczanowicz, Leszek,},
      title = {The emancipatory power of the body in everyday life :  niches of liberation /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume)},
      abstract = {The COVID-19 pandemic has powerfully highlighted the tight  knot of bodiliness and politics. This relationship lies at  the heart of this book. The author explores how events in  everyday life take on a deeply political dimension, and how  the body becomes a site of political practice. Subject to  regulation, the body functions as a vehicle of oppressive  social influences, and has been studied as such by  philosophers within the framework of biopolitics. However,  the body is also a locus of resistance and rebellion  against the entrenched rules, a quality which the author  refers to as somapower. The revolt of the body usually  begins and develops beyond political spaces in emancipatory  cultural niches, which may gradually accrue political  resonance. While this microphysics of emancipation, with  its potential for remodeling political life, is  particularly important in authoritarian and totalitarian  regimes, it is also a relevant force in democracies, where  it may foster social change. Leszek Koczanowicz is  Professor of Cultural Studies and Political Science at the  Faculty of Humanities, SWPS University, Wrocaw, Poland.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484380},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44833-1},
}