Dispossession The Performative in the Political

Name: Dispossession The Performative in the Political
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ISBN: 9780745653815

ISBN-10: 0745653812

ISBN-13: 9780745653815

Edition: 2013

Authors: Judith Butler, Athena Athanasiou

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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.…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 2/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.40" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.



Preface



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


Notes


Index