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| Author | Chandra Russo |
| Abstract | Though embodied resistance has figured centrally throughout history, social movement scholars have paid scant attention to the role of the body in activism. The few yet important studies on embodied activism tend to highlight the work of intentional bodily performance with less attention paid to how bodily experience shapes activists and the movements they join. Yet scholars have long argued that social movements should be understood as knowledge projects, bearing and disseminating alternative and often resistant worldviews. Through ethnographic study with solidarity activists that resist the US security state, author Chandra Russo finds that embodied experience is central to cultivating new and resistant forms of knowledge. This chapter seeks to center embodied experience as a key interpretive lens for both social movement participants and scholars, considering the layered ways in which studying the embodiment of solidarity activism is itself an embodied, interpretive project. |
| Tags / Keywords | activism, embodiment, ethnography, social movements, solidarity, US security state |
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