Dance, Technology and Social Justice: Individual and Collective Emancipation Through Embodied Techniques

by Kaustavi Sarkar

This book theorizes dance technique as the Greek techne translated as art, and shows how movement can inspire epistemic, philosophical, and cultural conversations in technology studies. Combining dance studies, religious studies, and technology studies, it argues that dance can be a technology of social justice bringing equanimity, liberation and resistance. It focuses on the eastern Indian art form Odissi and applied experimentations with motion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476676143
• ISBN13: 9781476676142
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up