Learn about Body Politic, Our Values and Our Objectives

Angelena Iglesia

Emma-Jane Greig Founder & Company Director After graduating with BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Manchester, Emma-Jane founded professional hip hop theatre company, Body Politic. As Artistic Director, Emma-Jane Greig works collaboratively with creatives to approach taboo socio-politic subject matter with an authentic flair for integrating narrative with […]

Body Politic (magazine) | LGBT Info

Angelena Iglesia

The Body Politic 220px The Body Politic (Issue 1, Nov-Dec 1971, Toronto) Categories LGBT Frequency monthly Publisher Pink Triangle Press First issue November 1, 1975 Final issue February 1987 Country Canada Based In Toronto, Ontario Language English The Body Politic was a Canadian monthly magazine, which was published from 1971 […]

The Body Politic | 5 Minutes For Books

Angelena Iglesia

My review for this book was due last week, and when I realized I’d dropped the ball, I told the tour coordinator that I’d skim the book quickly and review it over the weekend. (Note: it’s the following Thursday as I type this) But I couldn’t. The book was too […]

Clubs: The body politic | Rotary International

Angelena Iglesia

From the April 2016 issue of The Rotarian Rotary clubs are catnip to people running for public office: Rotarians are involved in their communities, civic-minded, and engaged in public improvement. Especially in an election year, clubs are likely to receive calls from candidates in search of a receptive audience. How […]

The body politic – Idioms by The Free Dictionary

Angelena Iglesia

We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third its intelligence and progress; we shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the […]

Body politic – Wikipedia

Angelena Iglesia

Cover of Hobbes’ Leviathan shows a body formed of multitudinous citizens, surmounted by a king’s head.[1] The body politic is a medieval metaphor that likens a nation to a corporation[2] which had serious historical repercussions throughout recent history and therefore giving the Crown: “As a legal entity today the Crown […]

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Body Politic

Angelena Iglesia

Photograph Source: srslyguys – CC BY 2.0 As the international community is consumed by the impact of Covid-19, there are signs of the impact of the pandemic on the body politic. There is change throughout the international community, particularly the decline of the influence and power of the United States; […]

body politic | Definition, History, & Facts

Angelena Iglesia

Ancient origins The first recorded instance of the body politic metaphor appears in the Rigveda (c. 1500 bce), the oldest of the sacred books of Hinduism. There the South Asian caste system is explained by comparing the priesthood to the mouth, soldiers to the arms, shepherds to the thighs, and […]

The Body Politic and the Body

Angelena Iglesia

EXHIBITIONS / ILHAM x SAM Project: The Body Politic and the Body 8 December 2019 – 12 April 2020 (Level 5) VIEW PROGRAMMES ILHAM Gallery and Singapore Art Museum (SAM) present ILHAM x SAM Project: The Body Politic and the Body from 8 December 2019 to 12 April 2020. The […]

Body Politic Dance Limited | Dance Classes in Oxford and London

Angelena Iglesia

Emma-Jane Greig Founder & Company Director After graduating with BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Manchester, Emma-Jane founded professional hip hop theatre company, Body Politic. As Artistic Director, Emma-Jane Greig works collaboratively with creatives to approach taboo socio-politic subject matter with an authentic flair for integrating narrative with […]

Looking Back 2017: Towards a Black Body Politic

Angelena Iglesia

2017 began in the final month of the Met Breuer’s landmark retrospective of some 72 paintings by Chicago’s Kerry James Marshall, and draws to a close with Zanzibar-born Lubaina Himid winning the Turner Prize. The intervening months were, without fail, punctuated by the high-profile exhibition or public recognition (sometimes long […]

Juan Williams: Conspiracies are a cancer in the body politic

Angelena Iglesia

Last week, my news feeds from Twitter and Facebook got swamped with reports from right-wing blogs saying: “Pete ButtigiegPete ButtigiegReuters poll finds Sanders cutting Biden national lead to single digits Biden says he’ll adopt plans from Sanders, Warren Buttigieg guest-hosts for Jimmy Kimmel: ‘I’ve got nothing else going on’ MORE […]

UW Press – : Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic From Britain’s Renaissance to America’s New World Kenneth Robert Olwig Foreword by Yi-Fu Tuan

Angelena Iglesia

Landscape, Nature, and the Body PoliticFrom Britain’s Renaissance to America’s New WorldKenneth Robert OlwigForeword by Yi-Fu Tuan A masterful work of scholarship with implications for geography, literature, theater, history, political science, law, and environmental studiesLandscape, Nature, and the Body Politic explores the origins and lasting influences of two contesting but […]

What was The Body Politic, anyway?

Angelena Iglesia

What was The Body Politic? The Body Politic was a groundbreaking gay and lesbian magazine published out of Toronto from 1971 to 1987. The magazine played an instrumental role in many formative battles in the gay liberation movement of the ’70s and ’80s. It operated as a collective, so there […]

Panic, Pandemic, and the Body Politic

Angelena Iglesia

Infections don’t just attack weaknesses in the human body. They also exploit weaknesses in human society. Some disasters are small, and some disasters are just very far away. Covid-19 is neither. It’s big, and it’s here, and it’s fast. Infection rates are currently doubling roughly every three days. It’s going […]