Shielding
Body-based Studies on Integrity and Protection
1st Edition
Published on 3. September 2024
256 pages
978-3-8394-7280-4 (ISBN)
Description
Shielding offers a collection of conceptual approaches through which bodies, intentionally or involuntarily, become shields. Bodies take on an ambivalent status in the process: 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.
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Sandra Noeth, Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT), Deutschland
Sandra Noeth ist Professorin am HZT - Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (Universität der Künste Berlin/Hochschule für Schauspielkunst »Ernst Busch«) und arbeitet international als Kuratorin und Dramaturgin in freien und institutionellen Kontexten. Sie beschäftigt sich im Schwerpunkt mit ethischen und politischen Perspektiven auf Körperpraxis und -theorie und mit Dramaturgie im Kontext körperbasierter Darstellender Künste. Als Leiterin der Dramaturgie- und Research-Abteilung am Tanzquartier Wien (2009-2014) entwickelte sie Projekten zu Konzepten und Praktiken von Verantwortung, Religion, Integrität und Protest im Verbindung mit Körpern.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Shielding. Introductory Notes
- Civilians as Human Screens: Bodies, Media, and the Meaning of Violence
- A Woman's Wrath
- Colder
- The Transindividual Act of Self-Burning
- I Will Burn Myself Again and Again.
- Immunized Bodies and Logistification Just-in-Time. Transformations Through the Pandemic
- Name as a Shield
- On Aesthetic Shielding: Walls, Windows and Screens
- Gejm / The Game
- Hands Up! On the Inequalities of a Global Bodily Vernacular
- What it Takes: A Life in Activism
- Invoking the Shielding Powers of the Body. Tales of Animal Spirits in Speculative Folk Dances
- Trans-Feels / Trans-Shields: Some Scores for Cruising
- Sartorial Shields: Butch Lesbian Gender Styles as Defensive Technology, 1950-1969
- A Worn World Book
- Contributors
- Imprint
