NEWS
Beatrice Allegranti’s new book published 4th March 2024.
Book launch: 25th April 2024. Details will be posted here and on social media.
Here’s a snapshot of the critical reviews:
A deeply feminist project, Moving Kinship speaks to the defining questions of our post-Covid, “post-truth” times. This ground-breaking work entangles the reader with its explorations, helping silences to become resonant, and darkness to be illuminated and illuminating in equal measure.
Caro Bainbridge, Coach, Consultant, Emerita Professor of Culture and Psychoanalysis, London
I encountered Moving Kinship as a fellow professora of capoeira and social justice advocate … and found reading it a profoundly moving and enriching experience. Allegranti has written a hugely impressive and personally affecting body of work.
Ebony Riddell Bamber, Global Programme Leader – Human Rights, Gender & Reparative Justice, London
This book is beautiful, haunting. Moving Kinship is both a gift and a call to action. We are all in Allegranti’s debt.
Jonathan Wyatt, Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and co-director Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry, The University of Edinburgh
Allegranti’s work offers a place to heal anchored in movement, socioeconomic realities, and the power of embracing our own experiences. Beautifully written and illustrated, every word is honest and powerful as it is woven from personal material.
Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, City University, London
Moving Kinship will summon you to dance the collisions and communions of being with others. Accept the invitation.
Tami Spry, Professor Emeritus of Communication and Performance Studies, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota
Moving Kinship is a book to slow dance with. Allegranti’s metamorphosing project enables artists to response-ably gift public and private movement performances – in the streets, in museums, in homes, in dusty ruins. This book will inspire a generation of movers and shakers who want to enact more-than-human rights, equity and justice.
EJ Renold, Professor of Childhood Studies, University of Cardiff
Allegranti writes with a choreographer’s attention to all types of movement, and the reliability of somatic knowing. A beautiful text that truly challenges the ‘thingness’ of words on pages and reminds us that they, too, have lives worth sharing.
Professor Daniel X. Harris, ARC Future Fellow, Co-Director, Creative Agency Research Lab, RMIT University, Australia
This book is crafted as an art piece that advocates for social justice and viscerally challenges traditional ways of creating knowledge. Moving Kinship resembles a colourful kaleidoscope where, through the prism of feminism, choreography and psychotherapy, the reader constantly discovers critical intersectional insights.
Dr. Alejandra Benitez, Social Activist and Gender Expert, Mexico.
Head over to Routledge to see the full CRITICS REVIEWS of Moving Kinship: Practicing Feminist Justice in a More-than-Human World.
