Simmonds, Lindsay (2024) Reflections from a "third space": "politics is what happens between bodies". Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief. ISSN 1743-2200
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Priscyll Avoine suggests that, “[p]olitics is what happens between bodies” (2022, 7). With this in mind, this paper reflects on what happens when women of faith from the Israel-Palestine region, situated within the ongoing political conflict, encounter one another in a “third space” through their involvement in peacebuilding. I examine the affective impact of the material textures of these encounters, which range from organized institutional events to intimate interpersonal conversations. I argue that the (contested) processes of curation, facilitation and transformation within this space of bodily encounter be specifically attentive to “hierarchical markers” which, left un-named or un-explored, emerge as performative frictions between participants. The texture (scratchiness, softness) of the relationships (generated, enabled, hampered, disabled) within this “third space” exposes the complications of the “situated” body – from a site of (relentless) conflict to a site of (relative) peace, from a state of separation to a state of encounter, from a weariness of permanence to a transient moment in time. Each of these shifts in meanings of embodiment impact explicitly and implicitly on the material presence in a space where the borders of bodily otherness are disrupted, and potentially transform these bodies, the relationships between them, and the spaces they inhabit.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Dec 2024 12:06 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Dec 2024 19:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126491 |
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