Wounded by politics and prison. The embodied account of an activist

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to show that, in order to understand in a broad and complex way the what and the how of certain individual and collective political transformations taking place in the Basque context (in particular with regard to an activist incarcerated for several years), we need to delve into their corporeal and gender dimensions. Such analysis is, I believe, enriched and diversified by considering emotional and sensorial experiences that are often overlooked in anthropological literature, such as, in this case, smell, laughter, voice and shame.