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. A condition with myriad faces to which i will return, at. In dispossession, butler and athanasiou aim to think about dispossession outside the logic of possession p. Preface of dispossession that we valued as well as the version. Tanner lectures on human values interpreting nonviolence why preserve the life of the other. A social cartography of analytics in education as performative politics article in british journal of educational technology 502 august 2019 with 54 reads how we measure reads.
Nov 14, 2016 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. The performative in the political, judith butler teams up athena athanasiou to investigate the concept of dispossession and its connections with recognition, performativity, bio politics, protest, and relationality. The subject, real bodies and the performative in the political. 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. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The increasing prevalence of vulnerability as a descriptive concept in policy, political and social discourses occurs alongside a renewed, undeniably vexed murphy 2012. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. Dispossession definition, to put a person out of possession, especially of real property. Dispossession by judith butler overdrive rakuten overdrive. With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, judith butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Greek dispossession staged, or when street politics meets the.
Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Judith butler and athena athanasiou, dispossession. Hello select your address best sellers help new releases coupons gift ideas gift cards home books sell computers electronics registry. Dispossession is therefore discussed in terms of social connectivity, as potential, in terms of a dispossession of the sovereign that is, bounded, individual, autonomous, liberal humanist self, and looking towards dispossession as a form of responsiveness, a way of acting together to create change. Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking the q. The performative in the political by judith butler and athena athanasiou. Return to article details judith butler and athena athanasiou.
The performative in the political is an interdisciplinary cultural text published from the conversations between judith butler and athena athanasiou. The performative in the political, judith butler and athena athanasiou investigate the concept. In the politics of dispossession said traces his peoples struggle for statehood through twentyfive years of exile, from the plos bloody 1970 exile from jordan through the debacle of the gulf war and the ambiguous 1994 peace accord with israel. Dispossession the performative in political judith butler. The performative in the political pcvs polity conversations series first edition by butler, judith, athanasiou, athena isbn. The performative in the political, judith butler teams up athena athanasiou to investigate the concept of dispossession and its connections with recognition, performativity, biopolitics, protest, and relationality. In addition, she has coauthored and edited over a dozen volumesthe most recent of which is dispossession. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. 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 conversations kindle edition by butler, judith, athanasiou, athena. An ethical and political critique tanner lectures on human values interpreting nonviolence legal. 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. Over the years she has also published many influential essays, interviews, and public presentations. This thesis contends that vulnerability must be understood as an affective and malleable concept, and one which performs.
The subject, real bodies and the performative in the. This book interrogates the agonistic and openended corporeality and conviviality of the crowd as it assembles in cities to protest political and economic dispossession through a performative dispossession of the sovereign subject and its propriety. The authors work towards conceptualising being dispossessed as potential, while recognising and working against repressive forms of dispossession such as settler colonialism. Performativity, precarity and sexual politics judith butler. This thoughtprovoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Acces pdf dispossession the performative in political judith butler dispossession the performative in political judith butler dispossession the performative in the political judith butler, legal violence. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. From the uprisings pdf in the middle east and north africa to the antineoliberal gatherings at puerta del sol, syntagma and zucchotti park, an alternative political and affective economy of bodies in public is being formed. 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 framework. The performative in the political, by judith butler and athena athanasiou.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The performative in the political, judith butler and athena athanasiou 20, 31 theorize dispossession as both a catalyst for social justice politics as well as the differential allocation of humanness in local and global. Syntagma square, and from the arab spring to the greek uprising. This thoughtprovoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism. It illustrates how the process of land dispossession itself shapes the targets, strategy and tactics, organization, social composition, goals, and ideologies. In butlers recent work, the normative and differential effects of neoliberal economic matters are entangled with a politics of the performative that resists precarity and dispossession see butler and athanasiou, 20. Dispossession definition of dispossession by the free. The performative in the political 20, coauthored with athena athanasiou. Politics1 judith butler university of california, berkeley abstract gender performativity is one of the core concepts in judith butlers work. The performative in the political, judith butler and athena athanasiou investigate the concept of dispossession and its connections with recognition, performativity, biopolitics, protest, and relationality. This book interrogates the agonistic and openended corporeality and conviviality of the crowd as it assembles in cities to protest political and economic dispossession through epub a performative dispossession of the sovereign subject and its propriety. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading dispossession.