Lloyd, Moya (2023) Becoming visible: corporeal politics, spaces of appearance, and the Miss America protest. Democratic Theory, 10 (2). pp. 18-30. DOI https://doi.org/10.3167/dt.2023.100203
Lloyd, Moya (2023) Becoming visible: corporeal politics, spaces of appearance, and the Miss America protest. Democratic Theory, 10 (2). pp. 18-30. DOI https://doi.org/10.3167/dt.2023.100203
Lloyd, Moya (2023) Becoming visible: corporeal politics, spaces of appearance, and the Miss America protest. Democratic Theory, 10 (2). pp. 18-30. DOI https://doi.org/10.3167/dt.2023.100203
Abstract
Jacques Rancière’s discussion of disidentification provides an important account of how existing inegalitarian structures, and hierarchically ordered identities may be challenged. However, Rancière treats disidentification as a discursive phenomenon, centered on naming. As an explanation of how the invisible might become visible, it is problematic to overlook the body since appearance requires our bodies to be seen, to become visible. Drawing on discussions of the subject-in-process and the idea of identity as both enfleshed and performatively constituted, this article seeks to enrich Rancière’s discussion of disidentification by focusing attention on its embodied dimensions. It does so by exploring, through an analysis of the Miss America protest of 1968, the role of corporeality both in constituting spaces of appearance and in articulating democratic demands for visibility.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Corporeal politics; identity; Jacques Rancière; misidentification; Miss America protest; spaces of appearance; visibility |
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: | 11 Dec 2023 13:21 |
Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2023 13:21 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/35838 |
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