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How We Walk

By Matthew Beaumont

How We Walk Philosophy

How We Walk

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You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait reflect our social and political experiences as we navigate the city under capitalism. Through a series of dialogues with thinkers and walkers, his book explores the relationship between freedom and the human body How We Walk foregrounds the work of Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist and leading thinker of liberation, who was one of the first people to think about the politics of ‘walking while black’. It also introduces us to the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who wrote that one could discern the truth about a person through their posture and gait. For Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, the ability to walk upright and with ease is a sign of personal and social freedom. Through these excursions, Beaumont reimagines the canonical literature on walking and presents a new interpretation of the impact of class and race on our physical and political mobility, raising important questions about the politics of the body.
Product details
Number of Pages:
212
Release Date:
2024-03-12
Publication Date:
2024-03-05
Publisher:
Verso Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1804290076
ISBN13:
9781804290071
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
314 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
214 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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