The emancipatory power of the body in everyday life : niches of liberation / Leszek Koczanowicz.
Koczanowicz, Leszek, author.
2023
HM636
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Title The emancipatory power of the body in everyday life : niches of liberation / Leszek Koczanowicz.
Author Koczanowicz, Leszek, author.
ISBN 9783031448331 (electronic bk.)
3031448332 (electronic bk.)
9783031448324
3031448324
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44833-1
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-44833-1 doi
Call Number HM636
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.461
Summary 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.
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Chapter 1 Concepts: Somapower, the Microphysics of Emancipation, and the Politics of Everyday Life
Chapter 2 Applications: Everyday Life, the Body and Strategies of Resistance
Chapter 3 The Pandemic and the Politics of the Body
Chapter 4 Conclusions.

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