Body politic - Wikipedia
WEBThe body politic is a polity—such as a city, realm, or state—considered metaphorically as a physical body. Historically, the sovereign is typically portrayed as the body's head, and the analogy may also be extended to other anatomical parts, as in political readings of Aesop's fable of "The Belly and the Members".
Body politic | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica
WEBbody politic, in Western political thought, an ancient metaphor by which a state, society, or church and its institutions are conceived of as a biological (usually human) body.
Body Politics - Encyclopedia.com
WEBThe term body politics refers to the practices and policies through which powers of society regulate the human body, as well as the struggle over the degree of individual and social control of the body. The powers at play in body politics include institutional power expressed in government and laws, disciplinary power exacted in economic ...
Body politic Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
WEB1. : a group of persons politically organized under a single governmental authority. 2. archaic : corporation sense 2. 3. : a people considered as a collective unit. Examples of body politic in a Sentence.
Full article: Body politics - Taylor & Francis Online
WEBApr 7, 2017 · The theme of body politics directs our attention to how bodies are included or excluded in the polity. How do governments respond to the political demands of bodies that transgress normative boundaries? What ways do physical representations of difference impact power relations?
Body Politic
WEBThrough a global network of COVID19 patients, chronic illness allies, and health and disability advocates, Body Politic breaks down barriers to patient-driven whole-person care and well-being, particularly for historically marginalized communities by facilitating peer-support, cultivating patient-led research and public education, and leading ...
(PDF) Rethinking the Body in Global Politics: Bodies, Body Politics ...
WEBThis book rethinks the body in global politics and the particular roles bodies play in our international system, foregrounding processes and practices involved in the continually contested (re/dis)embodiment of both human bodies and collective bodies politic.
9 Body Language Tells From the Presidential Debate
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Harris Wore Her Tension in Her Neck. The ABC News Presidential Debate. Harris took the first question, and you could see a lot of tension in her throat — hard swallows, tense neck muscles, a lot ...
18th-century body politics | Science - AAAS
WEBMay 9, 2024 · In 18th-century Europe, scholars and political theorists produced reams of texts advocating “toleration, equality, liberty, cosmopolitanism, and natural rights” alongside works defining hierarchical categories based on “race, sex, and gender.”
Body politics and democracy - Ludwig - 2021 - Wiley Online …
WEBJun 25, 2020 · It helps to refute the premise of liberal western democracy that the political subject is a bodiless sovereign subject of the law, and it also helps to reveal the subtle, albeit “democratic” technologies that constitute subjects as …
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