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Scholars such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu have shown how the body can become a site of oppression. But after all, the body can become a vehicle for resistance or emancipation. The contributors to this volume, referring to Richard Shusterman's concept of somaesthetics, show through various examples how this is possible. Moving away from Foucault’s and Bourdieu’s construal of the body as a site of oppression, the contributors to this volume draw on Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics to argue that the body can also be a vehicle for resistance and emancipation.

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Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Cultural Studies and Political Science at the SWPS University, Poland. He has authored and edited twelve books and numerous articles on the theory of culture, social theory, and cultural aspects of politics, recently Emancipatory Power of the Body in Everyday Life: Niches of Liberation (Palgrave, 2023).

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