Tag: Bodies

Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa Homo Expendibilis


Free Download Hervé Anderson Tchumkam, "Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis "
English | ISBN: 1793640750 | 2021 | 194 pages | EPUB | 393 KB
Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis presents an examination of North African literature situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, political philosophy, and sociology. The author analyzes social categories in relation to civil and social protections and in particular, the ways in which disruptions to these protections can lead to social degeneration. The author’s analysis starts from the premise that precarious lives in North Africa have become true bodies of exception. In other words, they are deemed dangerous, expendable and unworthy of the rights and treatment accorded to full citizens. Thus, the author assesses portrayals of violence in contemporary literature as a crystallization of the existing disjunction between the socially disqualified and those who wield colonial, political, and religious power. Moreover, the author argues that in order to understand contemporary politics and the current climate of insecurity, a deeper understanding of precarity in North Africa from colonial times to the present is crucial. By affirming their right to exist, the author argues that the marginal bodies of North Africa offer unique insights into the society that marginalized them and thus, from the often inaudible and invisible periphery, they nevertheless challenge the dominant ideas of the center.

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Returning Home to Our Bodies Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World


Free Download Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World-Practices for connecting somatics, nature, and social change by Abigail Rose Clarke
English | January 9th, 2024 | ISBN: 1623179386 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 3.73 MB
For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Garden of Earthly Bodies A Novel


Free Download Garden of Earthly Bodies: A Novel by Sally Oliver
English | June 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1419759353 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 2.3 MB
Sally Oliver’s Garden of Earthly Bodies is an exquisitely eerie and unsettling speculative novel that grapples with questions of trauma, identity, and the workings of memory.

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Art Monsters Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art


Free Download Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 0374105952 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 44.6 MB
What kind of art does a monster make? And what if monster is a verb? Noun or a verb, the idea is a dare: to overwhelm limits, to invent our own definitions of beauty.

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Bodies Under Siege How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global [Audiobook]


Free Download Sian Norris, Naomi Madelin (Narrator), "Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global"
English | ASIN: B0CC6CGMHZ | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:15:00 | 291 MB
Think today’s anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today’s anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white supremacist, afraid of a "great replacement" of the world’s white population by other races, who are working hard to reshape governments and policies across Europe, North America, and around the world. Much of this far-right organizing and funding network, however, has been overlooked by today’s feminist and left movements.
As investigative journalist Sian Norris uncovers here, it is through attacking abortion rights that fascist ideas from the dark web, incel chat boards, and fringe organizations comes to enter mainstream debate-and to then shape governmental policy across Europe, from authoritarian regimes like Hungary’s to liberal democracies like Britain. As Norris goes undercover at anti-abortion activist meetings, and pieces together the money trail linking American think tanks to far-right fascist groups, she maps out the pipeline by which fascism has become respectable across the Global North by taking away women’s reproductive rights and autonomy.

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Art Monsters Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art [Audiobook]


Free Download Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (Audiobook)
English | August 17, 2023 | ASIN: B0CCW4F1DC, B0CN79YBT7 | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 37m | 524 MB
Author and Narrator: Lauren Elkin
A dazzlingly original reassessment of women’s stories, bodies and art – and how we think about them.
For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?

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