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The performative in the political by judith butler and athena athansiou dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to. Over the years she has also published many influential essays, interviews, and public presentations. In addition, she has coauthored and edited over a dozen volumesthe most recent of which is dispossession.
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Dispossession the performative in political judith butler. Butler and athanasiou pull from an impressive canon of thinkers, such as adorno, fanon, foucault, levinas, marx, and spivak to name a few. The performative in the political is an interdisciplinary cultural text published from the conversations between judith butler and athena athanasiou. Use the link below to share a fulltext version of this article with your friends and colleagues. In the last several years, the world has been rocked by historic protests, from zucotti park to syntagma square, and from the arab spring to the greek uprising. Pdf judith butler in conversation download full pdf. In dispossession, butler and athanasiou aim to think about dispossession outside the logic of possession p. Greek dispossession staged, or when street politics meets. Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading dispossession. An ethical and political critique tanner lectures on human values interpreting nonviolence legal. The authors work towards conceptualising being dispossessed as potential, while recognising and working against repressive forms of dispossession such as settler colonialism. In the context of neoliberal expropriation of labor and livelihood, dispossession opens up a performative condition of being both affected by injustice and prompted to act. The performative in the political up to now in regards to the guide we have dispossession. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political. The performative in the political by judith butler 121 ratings, 4. In order to put this troubling concept to work that is, in order to engage with the ways in which it gets us in trouble we must confront an aporia. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The epub format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices. The performative in the political comments users never have however left his or her overview of the experience, or otherwise make out the print yet. The authors work towards conceptualising being dispossessed as potential. The performative in the political by judith butler and athena athanasiou.
It is so trou bling that as we seek to write about it, it is highly pos sible that it gets us into trouble. The performative in the political by judith butler and athena athanasiou allows us to be a fly on the wall being privy to their conversations about the understanding and logic of society, history, possession, ownership, economics, and so forth. Social and legal theory in the age of decoloniality. A condition with myriad faces to which i will return, at. From the uprisings in the middle east and north africa to the antineoliberal gatherings at puerta del sol, syntagma and zucchotti park. The performative in the political, she joins forces with athena athanasiou, a young feminist scholar from the department of social anthropology at panteion university in greece, to explore the wideranging potentialities latent in the performance of identity. Gender performativity is one of the core concepts in judith butlers work. Jeongchijeogin geose isseoseoui suhaengseonge gwanhan daehwa. Although the dispossession of agrarian land has long been an aspect of capitalist. The performative in the political conversations with athena athanasiou judith butler. The troubling of politics and the political from norms and ethics to politics dispossession and the performative in the political notes towards a performative theory of assembly 2015 performativity, precarity and how the right to appear provides a basis for a coalitional. This thoughtprovoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism. The performative in the political by judith butler consists of conversations between the brilliant butler and athena athanasiou, a professor of social anthopology at panteion university of social and political sciences, in athens, greece.
The performative in the political 20, a text composed of a rich dialogue of shared ideas, judith butler and athena athanasiou carefully discuss the performativity of street politics with a particular focus on greece and the processes of dispossession. Where butlers early works are more focused on, perhaps, the individual, recent works are more on precarity, or the making of those who are precarious or on the margins. Judith butler and athena athanasiou, dispossession. The subject, real bodies and the performative in the political. Korean translation of judith butler and athena athanasiou. Cinema and media studies doctoral student ungsan kims korean translation of judith butler and athena athanasious dispossession.
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