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Somapower: Somaesthetics Reads Politics (Studies in Somaesthetics, 8)
9004697799 pdf Scholars such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu have shown how the body can become a site of oppression. But after all, the body can become a vehicle for resistance or emancipation. The contributors to this volume, referring to Richard Shusterman's concept of somaesthetics, show through various examples how this is possible. Moving away from Foucaults and Bourdieus construal of the body as a site of oppression, the contributors to this volume draw on Richard Shustermans somaesthetics to argue that the body can also be a vehicle for resistance and emancipation.