Choreographies of Affect, Language, and Social Norms
Ed. by Alberica Bazzoni and Federica Buongiorno
Cultural Inquiry, 39
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2026
Combining the notions of performativity and embodiment, this book situates the body in the realm of processes, movement, and poiesis, seeking to generate alternative configurations to mind–body dualism. Focused on language, literature, dance, affect, gender, sport, and disability, the contributions to this volume emphasize doing over being: the body does and is done; it is engaged in a movement of co-constitution with the world. It is in doing that bodies produce knowledge and shared or contested social meaning. Such a relational process is best described through the notion of choreographies — patterns of movement which capture the embodied dynamic of passivity and activity, design and improvisation, inner and outer states, and which fittingly describe the modalities through which social norms discipline bodies, or are challenged by them.
ISBN 978-3-96558-115-9 | Hardcover | 45 EUR
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265 pp. | 20.3 cm x 12.7 cm
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Cultural Inquiry, 39
ISSN (Print): 2627-728X
ISSN (Online): 2627-731X
