Book Details
Format
Kindle
Language
English
Published
Sep 3, 2024
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
ISBN-10
3839472806
ISBN-13
9783839472804
Description
Shielding offers a collection of conceptual approaches through which bodies, intentionally or involuntarily, become shields. Bodies take on an ambivalent status in the they serve as protection or a buffer and express resistance. At the same time, they turn and are turned into weapons when they intervene on the ground and politically, in war, conflicts, and through activism. The contributors address the idea of bodily integrity, both in a material sense and with regard to the symbolic and ethical relations that a body entangles. The book engages with ongoing debates around the re-evaluation of corporeality and embodiment in contemporary socio-political contexts.
Genres
Action & Adventure
Contemporary