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Embodying Eco-Consciousness: Somatics, Aesthetic Practices & Social Action
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Abstract

This article revisits the ‘doxa’ of somatics discourse identified by Isabelle Ginot, situating them in relation to embodied eco-consciousness and ecological and environmental orientations in somatics. The intention is to begin to unpack how they manifest in this particular strand of somatic enquiry and how (or if) they potentially risk undermining the contributions being made in this area. To do so, the term ‘eco-somatics’ is examined along with the wider prevalence of ecology and the ecological in somatics discourse, and both somatics and ecological/environmental discourse are situated within the condition of modernity–coloniality. The aim is to think through some of the potential pitfalls relating to eco-somatics, and this article is an attempt to wrangle with the complexity of these issues as well as an opportunity to pose some questions to the wider field.

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