In what ways is class present in looks, gestures and attitudes? What are the effects of how it is translated? And how are assimilation and adaptation staged and rehearsed? At a time when many societies and communities are becoming fragmented, the contributors ask how class and classism manifest in the body, particularly in the arts and cultural sectors. They consider the body to be both the subject of practice and discourse on class and a methodology that helps us to understand how classism works. Adopting an intersectional approach, the volume treats origin-based discrimination as a highly corporeal, performative and aesthetic matter.

Contributions by: Tanja Abou, Michael Annoff & Nuray Demir, Gurur Ertem, Eva Maria Gajek, Kerstin Honeit, Romuald Krężel, Tunay Önder, Hendrik Quast, Francis Seeck, Ana Vujanović, Stefanie Wenner and Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley

Print-ISBN 978-3-8376-7279-4 | PDF-ISBN 978-3-8394-7279-8
2026, 260 pages 
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Classed Bodies is the forth volume from the publication series Corporeal Matters on arts-based research, in particular practices and concepts that place the body at the core. It illuminates how the body appears simultaneously as witness, document, and agent in contemporary life, and offers insights into corporeality as the often neglected dimension that cuts through ethics, aesthetics, and politics. The series hosts edited volumes, authored publications, workbooks and other formats from multiple perspectives and fields of practice, grounded in moments of research, encounter and debate, generated in the context of the HZT-Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin.

Volume 1: Shielding. Body-based Studies on Integrity and Protection

Volume 2: The Gaze of the X-Ray. An Archive of Violence

Volume 3: Breathe. Critical Research into the Inequalities of Life

The Corporeal Matters series is edited by Sandra Noeth, Sandra Umathum and Janez Janša.