| Choreographies of Resistance: Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics Contributor(s): Väyrynen, Tarja (Author), Puumala, Eeva (Author), Pehkonen, Samu (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783486732 ISBN-13: 9781783486731 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $52.47 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Immigration - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science | Geopolitics |
| Dewey: 325 |
| LCCN: 2016049720 |
| Series: Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.55 lbs) 134 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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.. |
Contributor Bio(s): Puumala, Eeva: - Eeva Puumala is an Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute in the University of Tampere. She is author of Asylum seekers, Sovereignty and the Senses of the International: A Politico-Corporeal Struggle (Routledge, 2016). Her research has been published for instance in Review of International Studies, International Political Sociology, Alternatives: Local, Global, Political and European Journal of Cultural Studies.Pehkonen, Samu: - Samu Pehkonen is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the University of Oulu and the Tampere Peace Research Institute in the University of Tampere. He has published his research in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, International Political Sociology and Body & Society.Kynsilehto, Anitta: - Dr. Anitta Kynsilehto works at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere, Finland. Kynsilehto's research focuses on human mobility, intersectionality, borders, and solidarity activism, with an ongoing project studying corporeal forms of resistance and relational knowledge formation between undocumented migrants and solidarity activists in North Africa, Middle East and Europe. Her work has been published, for example, in Environment and Planning A, Body & Society, International Studies Perspectives, and European Journal of Cultural Studies. Alongside her academic interests, she takes part in civil society networks that deal with above topics, for example by serving in the executive committee of the EuroMed Rights as the political referent on migration and asylum. |