The emancipatory power of the body in everyday life: Niches of liberation

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Koczanowicz, Leszek
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2023-11-18
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Palgrave Macmillan
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138
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9783031448324
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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-44833-1
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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.
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Body
Somaesthetics
Biopolitics
Emancipation
Social critique
Oppression
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Katedra Kultury i Mediów
Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych w Warszawie
Instytut Nauk Społecznych
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Somapower and Microphysics of Emancipation: Toward a Culture of Liberation
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