| If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee: An Embodied Philosophy of Interconnection 2018 Edition Contributor(s): Metzger-Traber, Julia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3658223642 ISBN-13: 9783658223649 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Personality - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science | Peace |
| Dewey: 155.2 |
| Series: Masters of Peace |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.43 lbs) 141 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book posits that the 'refugee crisis' may actually be a crisis of identity in a rapidly changing world. It argues that Western conceptions of the individual 'Self' shape metaphors of political homes, and thus the geopolitics of belonging and exclusion. Metzger-Traber creatively re-conceives political belonging by perceiving the interconnection of each 'Self' through its most immediate home - the breathing body. On an experimental literary journey through her own past and that of Germany, she puts political philosophy in conversation with somatic and spiritual insight to expand notions of 'Self' and 'Home'. Then she asks: What ethical imperatives arise? What kinds of homes and homelands would we create if we no longer thought we ended at our skin? |