Politics of touch
Subtitle: sense, movement, sovereignty
By: Erin Manning.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780816648443; 9780816648450
Subjects: Behaviorism (Political science); Touch -- Political aspects.; Sex role -- Political aspects.; Tango (Dance) -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: atypical expressions and political inventions; title: Bodies on the move-political recompositions; title: Negotiating influence: touch and tango; title: Gestural politics-touching the impenetrable-te toucher, toi-eventually tender-worlding touch; title: Happy together: moving toward multiplicity; title: Tango movements-tango friendships-multiple movements of desire-a last tango; title: Erring toward experience: violence and touch; title: Means without an end-violence-erring-divine violence-return to the garden; title: Engenderings: gender, politics, individuation; title: Touch-gender-symbiosis-interlude-individuation-politics; title: Making sense of the incommensurable: experiencing democracy; title: Expressions of the political-thick to think-shifting skinscapes-democracy- making sense of politics; title: Sensing beyond security: what a body can do; title: Do not touch-tactically untouchable-structurally insecure-of pacts and political becomings-posthuman prosthetics-a touch of insecurity.