Research Catalog

Title

Choreographies of resistance : mobile bodies and relational politics / Tarja Väyrynen, Eeva Puumala, Samu Pehkonen, Anitta Kynsilehto, and Tiina Vaittinen.

Author

Väyrynen, Tarja

Publication

• Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Puumala, Eeva

Description

v, 127 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Geopolitical bodies, material worlds

Uniform Title

Geopolitical bodies, material worlds

Subject

• Emigration and immigration > Political aspects
• Immigrants > Political activity
• Refugees > Political activity
• Agent (Philosophy)
• Resistance (Philosophy)
• Human body > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-120) and index.

Contents

Introduction : choreography, mobility and politics -- Exploring choreographies of resistance -- Postcolonial space and entangled corporeal choreographies -- Liminal space of relationality and disturbance -- Urban space of mundane interaction -- Conclusions : unfolding into the future.

Call Number

JFE 17-2330

ISBN

• 9781783486724
• 1783486724
• 9781783486731
• 1783486732

LCCN

2016049720

OCLC

967964894

Author

Väyrynen, Tarja, author.

Title

Choreographies of resistance : mobile bodies and relational politics / Tarja Väyrynen, Eeva Puumala, Samu Pehkonen, Anitta Kynsilehto, and Tiina Vaittinen.

Publisher

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Geopolitical bodies, material worlds

Geopolitical bodies, material worlds

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-120) and index.

Added Author

Puumala, Eeva, author.

Other Form:

Online version: Väyrynen, Tarja, author. Choreographies of resistance Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016 9781783486748

Research Call Number

JFE 17-2330