Bodies of democracy: modes of embodied politics

In: Political science volume 84

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Political Remembering of Bodies -- Introduction -- Thinking the Body -- Modes of Politics and Chapter Outline -- References -- Chapter 1. Embodied Representation: Performances of Identity -- Introduction -- 1.1 Delegates and Trustees: Acting for Others -- 1.2 Descriptive Representation: Standing for Others -- 1.3 Constitutive Representation: Performing for Others -- 1.4 Bodies of Representation -- 1.5 "I am what you call a hooligan" -- 1.6 "Mother of the Nation" -- 1.7 Strange Democracy -- References -- Chapter 2. Embodied Deliberation: Conditions, Excesses, Disruptions, Opportunities -- Introduction -- 2.1 Disembodied Deliberation -- 2.2 Bodies Matter: Conditions -- 2.3 Bodies Matter: Excesses -- 2.4 Bodies Matter: Disruptions -- 2.5 Bodies Matter: Opportunities -- 2.6 Bodies of Deliberation -- 2.7 Beyond Deliberation -- References -- Chapter 3. Embodied Disagreement: The Agony of Others -- Introduction -- 3.1 Us and Them -- 3.2 Habits of Us -- 3.3 Bodies of Others -- 3.4 Cultivating Agonistic Respect -- 3.5 Democratic Disagreements -- References -- Chapter 4. Embodied Protest: The Politics of the Hunger-Strike -- Introduction -- 4.1 Hunger as protest -- 4.2 Irish republicans -- 4.3 Suffragettes -- 4.4 Anti-apartheid -- 4.5 The spectacular body -- 4.6 The identifying/identified body -- 4.7 The dissenting body -- 4.8 Hunger and Paradox -- References -- Chapter 5. Embodied Occupation: Disciplined Bodies in Counter-Conduct -- Introduction -- 5.1 Conducting and Countering -- 5.2 Twyford Down -- 5.3 Dimensions of Occupying Bodies at Twyford Down -- 5.4 Roads to Resistance -- References -- Chapter 6. Embodied Counsel: Bodies of Knowledge -- Introduction -- 6.1 Scientific Knowledge -- 6.2 Knowledge of Bodies -- 6.3 Bodies of Knowledge -- 6.4 Expertise and Democracy -- References -- Conclusion: Recalling Bodies -- References