Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant nurses, the book attests to the scope and diversity of corporeal resistance in the realm of politics. It is shown that bodies that are not assumed to have political agency can obstruct and resist the smooth functioning of disciplinary practices that nowadays form the core of migration policies. It is argued that the body is more than a mere target of politics. In so doing, the book contributes to the study of the political significance of movement, mobility and the nonverbal. The body opens up a space of political resistance and action. The resistant body poses a challenge that is both praxical and philosophical: it ultimately invites us to reconsider the meanings and content of political space, community and belonging..

Tarja Väyrynen is Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere, Finland. She is author of Culture and International Conflict Resolution and many articles and book chapters, including those published in the Review of International Studies, Alternatives: Local, Global, Political, International Journal of Conflict Resolution and Engagement and International Feminist Journal of Politics. She was the Head Researcher on the Academy of Finland funded research project The Body Politic of Migration - Embodied and Silent Choreographies of Political Agency.

Eeva Puumala is an Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute in the University of Tampere. She is author of Asylum seekers, Sovereignty and the Senses of the International: A Politico-Corporeal Struggle (Routledge, 2016). Her research has been published for instance in Review of International Studies, International Political Sociology, Alternatives: Local, Global, Political and European Journal of Cultural Studies.

Samu Pehkonen is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the University of Oulu and the Tampere Peace Research Institute in the University of Tampere. He has published his research in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, International Political Sociology and Body& Society.

Anitta Kynsilehto is Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute in the University of Tampere. Her work has appeared in Environment and Planning A, International Studies Perspectives and European Journal of Cultural Studies, and she has contributed book chapters for several academic monographs.

Tiina Vaittinen is a researcher and a PhD candidate at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere, Finland. She has published her research in International Feminist Journal of Politics, Womens Studies International Forum and Global Society

1. Introduction: Choreography, Mobility and Politics / 2. Exploring Choreographies of Resistance / 3. Postcolonial Space and Entangled Corporeal Choreographies / 4. Liminal Space of Relationality and Disturbance / 5. Urban Space of Mundane Interaction / 6. Conclusions: Unfolding into the Future