Dispossession the performative in the political : conversations with Athena Athanasiou /
"Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalis...
| Main Author: | Butler, Judith, 1956- |
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| Other Authors: | Athanasiou, Athena,, ProQuest (Firm) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity Press,
2013.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 211 pages). |
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Ebook Central (EBC)
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| Summary: |
"Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the disenfranchisement associated with unjust dispossession of land, economic and political power, and basic conditions for living? 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. From the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa to the anti-neoliberal gatherings at Puerta del Sol, Syntagma and Zucchotti Park, an alternative political and affective economy of bodies in public is being formed. Bodies on the street are precarious - exposed to police force, they are also standing for, and opposing, their dispossession. These bodies insist upon their collective standing, organize themselves without and against hierarchy, and refuse to become disposable: they demand regard. This book interrogates the agonistic and open-ended 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."--Publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-204) and index. "Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the disenfranchisement associated with unjust dispossession of land, economic and political power, and basic conditions for living? 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. From the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa to the anti-neoliberal gatherings at Puerta del Sol, Syntagma and Zucchotti Park, an alternative political and affective economy of bodies in public is being formed. Bodies on the street are precarious - exposed to police force, they are also standing for, and opposing, their dispossession. These bodies insist upon their collective standing, organize themselves without and against hierarchy, and refuse to become disposable: they demand regard. This book interrogates the agonistic and open-ended 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."--Publisher's website. Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession -- The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance) -- A caveat about the "primacy of economy" -- Sexual dispossessions -- (Trans)possessions, or bodies beyond themselves -- The sociality of self-poietics : talking back to the violence of recognition -- Recognition and survival, or surviving recognition -- Relationality as self-dispossession -- Uncounted bodies, incalculable performativity -- Responsiveness as responsibility -- Ex-propriating the performative -- Dispossessed languages, or singularities named and renamed -- The political promise of the performative -- The governmentality of "crisis" and its resistances -- Enacting another vulnerability : on owing and owning -- Trans-border affective foreclosures and state racism -- Public grievability and the politics of memorialization -- The political affects of plural performativity -- Conundrums of solidarity -- The university, the humanities, and the book bloc -- Spaces of appearance, politics of exposure. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Available via World Wide Web. Users at some libraries may be required to establish an individual no-charge EBC account, and log in to access the full text. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 211 pages). |
| Format: |
Users at some libraries may be required to establish an individual no-charge EBC account, and log in to access the full text. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-204) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780745664354 0745664350 |