Judith butler and athena athanasiou, dispossession. A condition with myriad faces to which i will return, at. The performative in the political by judith butler and athena athanasiou. 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 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. This thoughtprovoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Judith butler is maxine elliot professor in the department of comparative literature and the. Hello select your address best sellers help new releases coupons gift ideas gift cards home books sell computers electronics registry. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading dispossession.
The performative in the political, judith butler and athena athanasiou investigate the concept. 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. 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. In this paper butler reexamines this term and completes it with the idea of precarity, by making a reference to.
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 performative in the political pcvs polity conversations series first edition by butler, judith, athanasiou, athena isbn. The performative in the political is an interdisciplinary cultural text published from the conversations between judith butler and athena athanasiou. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Dispossession definition, to put a person out of possession, especially of real property. Tanner lectures on human values interpreting nonviolence why preserve the life of the other. The performative in the political 20, coauthored with athena athanasiou. 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.
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. Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. 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. Syntagma square, and from the arab spring to the greek uprising. Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking the q. 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. The performative in the political, by judith butler and athena athanasiou.
The performative in the political refers to the constitutive bond between strategies of accumulation and the ontoepistemic. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 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. It illustrates how the process of land dispossession itself shapes the targets, strategy and tactics, organization, social composition, goals, and ideologies. 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. The increasing prevalence of vulnerability as a descriptive concept in policy, political and social discourses occurs alongside a renewed, undeniably vexed murphy 2012. The performative in the political conversations kindle edition by butler, judith, athanasiou, athena. 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. This thoughtprovoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism.
Performativity, precarity and sexual politics judith butler. The conversations tackle an enormous amount of material, from palestine to egypt to occupy. In dispossession, butler and athanasiou aim to think about dispossession outside the logic of possession p. The subject, real bodies and the performative in 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. 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. 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. The performative in the political conversations ebook. Dispossession by judith butler overdrive rakuten overdrive. 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 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. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Dispossession the performative in political judith butler. 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. 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. 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. In addition, she has coauthored and edited over a dozen volumesthe most recent of which is dispossession. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. 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. Return to article details judith butler and athena athanasiou. 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. 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. Politics1 judith butler university of california, berkeley abstract gender performativity is one of the core concepts in judith butlers work.
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 authors work towards conceptualising being dispossessed as potential, while recognising and working against repressive forms of dispossession such as settler colonialism. Preface of dispossession that we valued as well as the version. Dispossession definition of dispossession by the free. An ethical and political critique tanner lectures on human values interpreting nonviolence legal. Greek dispossession staged, or when street politics meets the. The subject, real bodies and the performative in the political. 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.