Embodied revolt: a feminist-Bourdieusian analysis of protesting bodies

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dc.contributor.authorMyers, D. Sophia
dc.contributor.supervisorGarlick, Steve
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-02T07:15:47Z
dc.date.available2020-12-02T07:15:47Z
dc.date.copyright2020en_US
dc.date.issued2020-12-01
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThrough assessing Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field, this research project examines how re-sistance can be understood as an embodied experience. Six resistors are asked in semi-structured and dia-logic interviews how they experience resistance to oppression of various forms including patriarchy, co-lonialism, cisheteronormativity, and capitalism. Three main themes emerge from these interviews and in-clude: the construction of a resistant habitus, the occurrence of solidarity through which resistant habitus may mobilize, and the possibility of transforming oppressive fields such as patriarchy into fields of femi-nist resistance. Through instances of increased awareness of one’s social struggle, developments of mo-bile solidarity, and the occupation of oppressive fields in the name of social change, this project posits that habitus are capable of enacting change upon the field.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12423
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectqueer theoryen_US
dc.subjectresistanceen_US
dc.subjectBourdieuen_US
dc.subjecthabitusen_US
dc.subjectfielden_US
dc.subjectfeminist theoryen_US
dc.subjectprotesten_US
dc.subjectembodimenten_US
dc.titleEmbodied revolt: a feminist-Bourdieusian analysis of protesting bodiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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