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Global urban humanity – the “embodiment” of embodying peripheries

  • Kuan Hwa

Human "embodiment" is a polysemous term that has rich multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary dimensions from various histories of consciousness. As a paradigm for various methodologies, it emphasizes the lived experience and the immanence of the human condition, especially regarding sensory habitus, bodily ways of knowing, and the material-social dimension of humanity within a historically/geographically situated context; it validates all people as bearers of their own insight and knowledge, and emphasizes that experience itself serves as a phenomenological basis for understanding. Embodiment is thus not reducible to an abstract philosophical project, but rather holds possibilities for a practical and applied ethics. In the context of peripheries, embodiment can be understood as the commitment to marginalized communities and teaches us both the scientific and humanistic value of compassion.

  • Keywords:
  • embodiment,
  • praxis,
  • body memory,
  • intercultural phenomenology,
  • critical theory of the senses,
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Kuan Hwa

University of California Berkeley, United States

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Chapter Title

Global urban humanity – the “embodiment” of embodying peripheries

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Kuan Hwa

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10.36253/978-88-5518-661-2.01

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Embodying Peripheries

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Giuseppina Forte, Kuan Hwa

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2022

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