Decolonizing Bodies: Stories of Embodied Resistance, Healing and Liberation: Carolyn Ureña: Bloomsbury Academic

Decolonizing Bodies

Stories of Embodied Resistance, Healing and Liberation

Decolonizing Bodies

Stories of Embodied Resistance, Healing and Liberation

Description

Decolonizing Bodies offers novel theorizations of how racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchal violence erode the bodily schema and experiences of racialized and colonized populations, profoundly constraining their being in the world. The book invigorates embodiment studies by centering the experiences and struggles of Black, Indigenous, colonized, disabled, queer, and racialized subjects, showing how they live these displacements and disintegrations.

The volume powerfully demonstrates how racism and colonialism sediment in bodily and habitual registers that are active, ongoing, made and remade. Bodies, the contributors argue, powerfully register the impacts of colonial and racialized violence, but through practices of embodiment, they also digest, expel, and transform them. In centering non-normative subjective experiences and making space for different kinds of embodied knowledge, Decolonizing Bodies also takes a step toward decolonizing academic knowledge.

This exciting and urgent book offers readers new ways of imagining, choreographing and enacting the body. Beyond connecting distant geographies of harm, it celebrates polymorphous decolonial repertoires that record, creatively narrate, and heal.

Introduction (Carolyn Ureña, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Saiba Varma, University of California, San Diego, USA)
Part I: Bodies and Colonial Deposits

'The Inability to Move Forward': Mawazo as the Embodiment of Racial Capitalism & Postcolonial Abandonment in Tanzania” (Laura Meek, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong)

Towards a Queer Femme of Color Phenomenology of Burnout (Alexia Arani, California Polytechnic State University, USA)

Tender Acid: High Stakes Softness and Vulnerability (Kelly Dong, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, USA)

Part II: Bodily Refusals and Reclamations

Dark Horse: Kinetics of Afro-Bahian Candomblé (Mika Lior, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Enfleshing the soil (Zuleika Bibi Sheik, University of Portsmouth, UK)

Sexualities, Madness and Race: What does Stella do Patrocínio's poetics allow us to see about normalization devices? (Lina Ferrari de Carvalho, Marivete Gesser, Maria Juracy Filgueiras Toneli, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Part III: Abolitionist and Decolonial Futures

(Is It Possible?)The Imagination of a Black Space in U.S. Contemporary Civil Society (Dion Crommarty and Amir Gilmore, Washington State University, USA)

An Atlas of Our Bodies (Mustafa Baqai, University of California, San Diego, USA)