ID - 147698407 TI - The Emancipatory Power of the Body in Everyday Life : Niches of Liberation PY - 2023 SN - 9783031448331 9783031448324 9783031448348 3031448332 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Social sciences (general) KW - Sociology KW - sociologie KW - politieke filosofie KW - sociale filosofie KW - sociale wetenschappen KW - Human body. KW - Social change. KW - Human body KW - Social change KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - Political Philosophy. KW - Social Philosophy. KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147698407 AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has powerfully highlighted the tight knot of bodiliness and politics. This relationship lies at the heart of this book. The author explores how events in everyday life take on a deeply political dimension, and how the body becomes a site of political practice. Subject to regulation, the body functions as a vehicle of oppressive social influences, and has been studied as such by philosophers within the framework of biopolitics. However, the body is also a locus of resistance and rebellion against the entrenched rules, a quality which the author refers to as somapower. The revolt of the body usually begins and develops beyond political spaces - in emancipatory cultural niches, which may gradually accrue political resonance. While this microphysics of emancipation, with its potential for remodeling political life, is particularly important in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, it is also a relevant force in democracies, where it may foster social change. Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Cultural Studies and Political Science at the Faculty of Humanities, SWPS University, Wrocław, Poland. ER -