Lloyd, Moya (2024) Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability. Theory, Culture and Society, 41 (1). pp. 111-126. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231178478
Lloyd, Moya (2024) Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability. Theory, Culture and Society, 41 (1). pp. 111-126. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231178478
Lloyd, Moya (2024) Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability. Theory, Culture and Society, 41 (1). pp. 111-126. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231178478
Abstract
How are we to understand hunger strikes and episodes of lip-sewing in immigration detention? Are they simply cases of self-destruction or bare life, as is often claimed, or is there scope to view these embodied acts of self-harm as having a political dimension and to see those engaged in them as resistant subjects exercising political agency? To explore these issues, I draw on recent feminist theoretical work on vulnerability. Received wisdom suggests that vulnerability is an impediment to political action. Rejecting the idea that vulnerability equates exclusively to injurability and passivity, I contend, by contrast, that corporeal vulnerability can potentially prompt action, serve as a resource for collective acts of resistance, and enable the politicization of certain spaces. Since context matters to how vulnerability and resistance intersect, I illustrate my argument by exploring, in particular, the protests that took place at Woomera immigration detention centre in Australia in 2002.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | immigration detention; resistance; the body; vulnerability; Woomera |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2023 11:54 |
Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2024 16:53 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/35514 |
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