Explores the pedagogical moments or "flashpoints" when sociocultural formations of difference and power take hold through the corporeal capacities of the knowing bodyFeatures concisely written accounts of flashpoints that attend to the somatic intensities of the flesh as a site of knowledge, resistance, and transformationContributors range from a number of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, women's studies, and educationPresents rich phenomenologically informed case studies of educational encounters within difference, and demonstrates description as a method for thinking about critical incidents of teaching and learning