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Decolonizing Bodies: Stories of Embodied Resistance, Healing and Liberation

Decolonizing Bodies: Stories of Embodied Resistance, Healing and Liberation

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1350374881
ISBN13: 9781350374881
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 20 2025
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Decolonizing Bodies offers novel theorizations of how racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchal violence erode the bodily schema and experiences of racialized and colonized populations, profoundly constraining their being in the world. The book invigorates embodiment studies by centering the experiences and struggles of Black, Indigenous, colonized, disabled, queer, and racialized subjects, showing how they live these displacements and disintegrations.

The volume powerfully demonstrates how racism and colonialism sediment in bodily and habitual registers that are active, ongoing, made and remade. Bodies, the contributors argue, powerfully register the impacts of colonial and racialized violence, but through practices of embodiment, they also digest, expel, and transform them. In centering non-normative subjective experiences and making space for different kinds of embodied knowledge, Decolonizing Bodies also takes a step toward decolonizing academic knowledge.

This exciting and urgent book offers readers new ways of imagining, choreographing and enacting the body. Beyond connecting distant geographies of harm, it celebrates polymorphous decolonial repertoires that record, creatively narrate, and heal.

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