Université d’été : "Les usages politiques du corps" en Albanie aout 2014

This paper aims to reconsider the concept of Narodnost’ (1) and re-interpret its effects on Russian aristocratic society since this concept affects not only the issue of serfdom in Imperial Russia, but also the issue of Slavic unity or concept of Slavdom, which may have a prominent influence on the development of Russianness and even the ideology of USSR.
Under Russian Empire, Aristocrats in general had two parallel identities— identity of serving as officials and of serving as landed (…)

Within the four narratives consisted in Jia Zhangke’s latest film A Touch of Sin, the heroes or the heroines eventually put an end to the social injustice by the act of killing. These acts of killing, through Jia’s narrative, reveal that if the contemporary China can not be contained within the question of law, then to confront this situation is perhaps by the gesture of “Xia”（俠） that is outside the law. The first three characters within the film, the Shanxi coal miner with the shotgun (…)

Using fast as protest usually serves a political purpose, from detainees at Guantanamo Bay, to British women fasting as suffrage for the right to vote, to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s several hunger strikes, people who believe in justice have used hunger strikes as a means of pursuing their particular political assertions. However, in many cases where the hunger strike has been used as a tool to communicate, the state has force-fed protesters to silence their message. A person’s body can (…)

Body preservation of monarchic rulers, such as pharaohs of ancient Egypt or emperors of Chinese Dynasties, once symbolized as immortality and sacredness of sovereign power, is not monopolized by the monarchic regime but also inherited by modern-states regimes for memorizing revolutionary leaders and keeping revolutionary careers under establishing even after their revolutionary and political leaders having been dead, which including Vladimir Lenin (1924), Sun Yat-sen (1925), Joseph Stalin (…)

Dans le cadre de mon master d’architecture à l’ENSAV (école Nationale Supérieure d’architecture de Versailles), je suis en train de terminer mon mémoire sur des performances artistiques qui impliquent l’architecture. Cette recherche s’enracine dans mon expérience personnelle marquée par un double cursus de performeur et d’architecte. Il m’a semblé important d’explorer le lien qu’il existe entre ces deux domaines pour mieux comprendre les enjeux socio-politique que la performance (…)

Le jeûne est un engagement du corps. C’est une action sur soi, pour soi, ou bien, dans le cas du jeûne politique, c’est une interpellation. Le renoncement volontaire à s’alimenter exerce une pression sur ceux qui en sont les témoins. C’est pourquoi, il n’est pas de jeûne politique qui soit secret. Tout au contraire, il est public, annoncé.
Le jeûne-action est un jeûne politique différent de la grève de la faim(1). Sa durée dans le temps est fixée. Il ne met pas en péril la santé des (…)

The definition of inorodtsy(1) evolved over the course of the nineteenth century along with Russia’s eastward expansion and encounter with native peoples including Finno-Ugric, Samoedic, Turkic, Tungusic, Mongolian and Palosiberian language groups. As far as the Russian state was concerned, an inorodets, a person ‘of other origin’ (ino = other, rod = birth, origin), was generally supposed to become more like a Russian who in fact, associated inorodets with a referent who is a ‘congenital and (…)

A partir d’une réflexion de Michel Foucault autour de l’usage politique du corps chez les cyniques, on montrera en quelle manière l’élaboration éthique et ascétique du corps chez Gandhi a été en mesure de dégager des effets politiques dans le contexte de la décolonisation britannique de l’Inde. Cette élaboration sera analysée dans ses développements autour de trois axes : celui du corps de la conduite sexuelle (fonction éthico-politique du « Brahmacharya ») ; celui du corps mis en scène par (…)

New ethnic identifications are not created out of nowhere nor are they natural appearances of historic roots but usually follow a certain strategy which fulfills certain needs. One of the needs can be the avoidance of racist stereotypes. This is the case with Egyptians and Ashkali who try to escape antiziganist stereotypes through claiming other ethnicities than Roma. After the war not only the Serbian population but also Roma and Albanian speaking communities were driven out of the country. (…)

Elsa Daniels ( Master in Gender and Sexuality at National Central University) Julien Quelennec (Phd in philosophy at National Chiao Tung University/Paris 8)
The Femen represents an obvious example of the political use of the body. Their chosen weapon, the breast, is used to develop their tactic of “sextremism.” The political use of the breast is not something new, but it seems that through the actions of the Femen, it is re-deployed in a new fashion, within the context of a discourse on (…)