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Author Manning, Erin.

Title Politics of touch [electronic resource] : sense, movement, sovereignty / Erin Manning.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

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Description xxiii, 195 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.
Contents Introduction: atypical expressions and political inventions -- Bodies on the move-political recompositions -- Negotiating influence: touch and tango -- Gestural politics-touching the impenetrable-te toucher, toi-eventually tender-worlding touch -- Happy together: moving toward multiplicity -- Tango movements-tango friendships-multiple movements of desire-a last tango -- Erring toward experience: violence and touch -- Means without an end-violence-erring-divine violence-return to the garden -- Engenderings: gender, politics, individuation -- Touch-gender-symbiosis-interlude-individuation-politics -- Making sense of the incommensurable: experiencing democracy -- Expressions of the political-thick to think-shifting skinscapes-democracy- making sense of politics -- Sensing beyond security: what a body can do -- Do not touch-tactically untouchable-structurally insecure-of pacts and political becomings-posthuman prosthetics-a touch of insecurity.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Behaviorism (Political science)
Touch -- Political aspects.
Sex role -- Political aspects.
Tango (Dance) -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0816648441 (alk. paper)
9780816648443 (alk. paper)
081664845X (pb : alk. paper)
9780816648450 (pb : alk. paper)

 
    
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