Beaumont, Matthew
How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body
- ISBN 13:
- 9781804290071
- author:
- Beaumont, Matthew
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Verso Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 1.9 x 14.7 x 14.7 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, Social,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
Walking is not a neutral activity. It is a reflection of our social and political experiences. Through a series of dialogues with thinkers and walkers, Matthew Beaumont explores the relationship between freedom and the human body. He examines how our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Beaumont draws on the work of Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist and leading thinker of liberation, who was one of the first people to think about the politics of 'walking while black'. He also introduces the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who believed that one could discern the truth about a person through their posture and gait. This book reimagines the canonical literature on walking and presents a new interpretation of the impact of class and race on our physical and political mobility. Through Beaumont's exploration, important questions about the politics of the body are raised. How do our physical movements reflect our social and political experiences? What can our posture and gait reveal about our individual and collective histories?
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