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Knowing as Moving: Perception, Memory, and Place

Knowing as Moving: Perception, Memory, and Place

Foster, Susan Leigh

Hardcover

DanceGeneral SociologyIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 1478028904
ISBN13: 9781478028901
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 15 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Knowing as Moving, Susan Leigh Foster theorizes how the act of moving in and through the world creates the potential for individual and collective bodies to connect. Starting from the assertion that knowing takes place through bodily movement, Foster moves away from the Western philosophical traditions of dance, critiquing the Cartesian mind-body duality and its colonizing politics. She draws on Native and Indigenous studies, ecological cognitive science, disability studies, phenomenology, and new materialism to explore how knowledge is neither static nor storable. Thinking is a physical action and the product of an entire neuromuscular system with its mobile postural and gestural configurations, perceptual systems, and brain activity. Foster outlines how reading, examining, talking, and remembering are all forms of moving and contends that any process of knowing establishes one's identity and relationality. By focusing on the centrality of bodily movement to thought and self, she contributes a decolonial critique of the study of knowledge and being. In so doing, Foster replaces the Cartesian-colonial I think, therefore I am with a decolonial I move, and therefore I know.

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