Body-Making as Storming the Bastille
Readings of Michel De Certeau Toward an Anthopology of Political Gestures
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Michel de Certeau, Practices, Body, Embodied Action, Social MovementsAbstract
This article investigates Michel de Certeau’s understanding of the body as an instance of political action and social change, focusing on the persistence in his writings of references to embodiment – first as a fundamental dimension of the Christian mystic experience and later as a key to the politics of the streets in May 1968 in France – and on the author's ideas on how knowledge is produced and shared, embedded in the inventiveness of daily life. We highlight the relevance of an embodied dimension of experience in the author’s conceptualizations of practices, converging with the uses he makes of the linguistic notion of poetics in understanding social action. Pointing out the actuality and possible contemporary uses of his propositions, we reflect on practices of protest performed by student movements in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2015, addressing how the protesters seize the mobility of power structures, making use of everyday body practices supposedly normalized by school discipline in order to generate disruptive actions of civil disobedience.
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