Dispossession : The Performative in the Political - Conversations with Athena Athanasiou
ISBN: 9780745653808 | 0745653804
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 4/1/2013
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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 neoli... MORE
Table of Contents
Preface
1: Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession
2: The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance)
3: A caveat about the “primacy of economy”
4: Sexual dis-possessions
5: Trans/possessions, or bodies beyond themselves
6: The sociality of self-poetics: Talking back to the violence of recognition
7: Recognition and survival; or, surviving recognition
8: Relationality as self-dispossession
9: ... MORE
Preface
1: Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession
2: The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance)
3: A caveat about the “primacy of economy”
4: Sexual dis-possessions
5: Trans/possessions, or bodies beyond themselves
6: The sociality of self-poetics: Talking back to the violence of recognition
7: Recognition and survival; or, surviving recognition
8: Relationality as self-dispossession
9: ... MORE
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous publications include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex". She is currently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.
Athena Athanasiou teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.
Athena Athanasiou teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.
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