Overflown bodies' as critical-political transformations

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ID4366996
AuthorsBegonya Enguix Grau (0000-0002-5020-9019, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume21
Issue4
Pages465-481
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700120967328
OpenAlexW3103057228
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited21

In order to explore the political and transformative potential of bodies in relation to gender and affects, I discuss how bodies, gender and politics are entangled through the figuration of 'overflown bodies'. Departing from a material-discursive feminist conceptualisation of bodies, 'overflown bodies' are assemblages embedded in complex relationships of matter, discourse, emotions, affects, ideologies, protest, norms, values, relations, practices, expectations and other possibilities of (for) social and political action. Three ethnographic cases illustrate how 'overflown bodies' assemble matter and discourse, and how matter, bodies and gender matter. They are used to explore the political possibilities of gendered bodies and show how matter is entangled, embedded and assembled with our politics of being. The three cases interrogate the limits and boundaries of bodies and the modes and modalities of (political) agency. Finally, the article argues that it is through visibility and recognition that 'overflown bodies' become critically and creatively transforming, which can be useful for addressing issues related to exclusion, domination, political emancipation and social transformation

Emancipation · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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