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Because body politics covers the power to control bodies on the one hand, and resistance and protest against such powers on the other hand, body politics can both uphold and challenge racism. In the United States, the civil rights movement unseated the predominant racial body politics in abolishing Jim Crow laws and abating racial segregation.
30. Juni 2021 · Body Politics of the United States and the World and COVID-19 | Diplomatic History | Oxford Academic. Journal Article. The Body Politics of the United States and the World and COVID-19. Shanon Fitzpatrick. Diplomatic History, Volume 45, Issue 3, June 2021, Pages 498–509, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhab020. Published: 30 June 2021. PDF. Split View.
- Shanon Fitzpatrick
- 2021
body politic, in Western political thought, an ancient metaphor by which a state, society, or church and its institutions are conceived of as a biological (usually human) body. As it is usually applied, the metaphor implies hierarchical leadership and a division of labour, and it carries a strong autocratic or monarchial connotation.
- Joëlle Rollo-Koster
7. Apr. 2017 · Bodies are sites in which social constructions of differences are mapped onto human beings. Subjecting the body to systemic regimes – such as government regulation – is a method of ensuring that bodies will behave in socially and politically accepted manners. The body is placed in hierarchized (false) dichotomies, for example, masculine ...
Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century brings together scholarship on the body with historical research on U.S. international and transnational relationships. It interrogates the connections among the body, the nation, and the world in twentieth-century U.S. history.
14. Mai 2016 · 1Body and Nation: The Global Realm of US Body Politics in the Twentieth Century brings together an impressive range of essays, thus delivering on its promise to “interrogate the connections among the body, the nation and the world in twentieth-century US history” (1).
Body Politics’ thematic focus is on the history of the body from the 18th to the 21st century. The current main focus is on Western Europe and North America in the period between 1850 and 2000. An expansion of this regional scope, however, is welcome and intended.
