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HOW WE WALK - MATTHEW BEAUMONT GEBUNDEN

You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing 
walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture
and gait reflect our social and political experiences as we navigate the city under capitalism.
Through a series of dialogues with thinkers and walkers  his book explores the relationship
between freedom and the human body   How We Walk foregrounds the work of Frantz Fanon 
psychiatrist and leading thinker of liberation  who was one of the first people to think about
the politics of ‘walking while black’. It also introduces us to the renegade psychoanalyst
Wilhelm Reich  who wrote that one could discern the truth about a person through their posture
and gait. For Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch  the ability to walk upright and with ease is a
sign of personal and social freedom.  Through these excursions  Beaumont reimagines the
canonical literature on walking and presents a new interpretation of the impact of class and
race on our physical and political mobility  raising important questions about the politics of
the body.

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