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Record Nr.

UNINA9911025078303321

Autore

Foster Susan Leigh

Titolo

Knowing as moving : perception, memory, and place / / Susan Leigh Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Duke University Press, 2025

ISBN

9781478061106

1478061103

Disciplina

306.4/846

Soggetti

Dance - Psychological aspects

Movement, Psychology of

Body language

Mind and body

Human beings - Attitude and movement

Self-consciousness (Awareness)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Setting Out by Looking Back -- Essaying -- Walking as Place-Making -- Being, Knowing, and Acting -- Embodying the Decolonial -- Remembering Dancing -- Dancing's Affordances -- Continuing on . . .

Sommario/riassunto

"Moving as Knowing contemplates how bodies engage in the actualizing of connectedness through movement. Shifting laterally from the Western philosophical and movement traditions of dance, Susan L. Foster critiques Cartesian mind/body duality and the colonizing politics it enacts. Resonating with Indigenous and Native studies, ecological cognitive science, disability studies, phenomenology, and new materialism, Foster's work asks what connectedness feels like both individually and collectively to interrogate processes of being, perceiving, knowing, acting, and remembering. Considering placemaking, embodiment, and the affordances granted by the experience of movement and dance, Foster intellectually meanders through an exploration of knowledge that pulls at the threads of connection. In doing so, she suggests a potential for collective action in bodies moving alongside one another, emphasizing a decolonial



perspective on the act of knowing and thinking towards an epistemology of futurity"--