p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"The body is a very important thing obviously. We have one, and we use it in many ways. But in many rebel movements or even banditry the body is used either symbolically or physically. In many bandit movements in many bandit cultures around the world it is widely used. In terms of actual banditry a lot of physical strength is used and the body is actually used quite a bit. A lot of it especially in armed robbery, combat, especially in the days of old in the earlier 18th and 19th centuries maybe more hand to hand or close range combat was used, and even older bandits. Bodies was moving fast, looking tough nd strong was a part of it. So it's partly symbolic. The bandit had a look, a certain tough exterior. A certain type of posture. They had to do this because a lot of the rebelling and banditry involved robbing, stealing, and piracy, so wealth could be redistributed./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span class="s1" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanOther rebels used bodies differently for instance in Germany in the /spanWeimar Republic women would use their bodies to show off in art dance, and come out a bit more from their houses. It was a creative period where people did more with who they were. This was to show how they could be creative with their bodies and how it wasn't a shameful thing especially for women. Then of course things changed another example from another time in Germany this time during the 1930s when Hitler was coming to power. Someone like Leni Riefenstahl. She used many new angles but much of her revolutionary styles used people, poses, and to show in detail their bodies and poses. This was taboo, seen as fascist, and not the way to film a film. It violated cultural politeness. It forever changed how society and filming works, but also in many ways it was very unusual and not approved by society at the time. It was rebellious and challenged notions and the social order. The body was seen as capable of being filmed in so many ways in so precise of details. Many people now use her style and filming of bodies and movements have become so much more acceptable and advanced. But it took Leni Riefenstahl and her efforts and then because this was seen as a fascist thing as being too unacceptable so she was then banned from working or making any more films or really publishing her film efforts./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanIn the case of the French soldiers in the great war it was likewise another example where the body was used. They would self-mutilate and use their bodies to get out of the war or exaggerate pain or hurt and how sick or effected they were in war. And claimed their bodies felt this or that. This would be a case of rebellion because they were either not that ill or intentionally hurt theselves. They did this to get out of a pointless war that they were not sure why they were in and forever traumatized by the experience./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanIn Algeria they would be these women who would dress their bodies up and symbolically change or dress it up to look like other women. So to fake or disguise who they were to gain entry to do work in terms of setting up bombs, and otherspan class="Apple-converted-space" /spandisruptions or spying. The British SOEs did pretty much the same thing. They would dress and look different to fake an identity or to pick the people in a sense that would not stand out the body type in a sense. They would be used as spies. In many ways they would disrupt society, be part of a change process get the information required for others to make changes, and to disrupt and fight off fascists. They would destabilize authority./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanThe body is essential in many ways and are required and used some ways in rebellions. And a lot of times it has some symbolism. Since we all have bodies rebellion has always been mostly about strength and sometimes it could be weakness in the instance of the great war. People use whatever they can to show their disapproval, cause social change and very much rebel against society. They use whatever means they can often including their bodies to get a larger point across that they are hungry, poor, people are greedy, that societies need to change, that they do not approve. And many other things./p