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Dispossession The Performative in the Political

0745653812

0745676405

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Dispossession The Performative in the Political

[Book]

Judith Butler

Hoboken Wiley

2013

(225 Seiten)

PCVS-Polity Conversations Series

Preface vii 1 Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession 1 2 The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance) 10 3 A caveat about the "primacy of economy" 38 4 Sexual dispossessions 44 5 (Trans)possessions, or bodies beyond themselves 55 6 The sociality of self-poietics: Talking back to the violence of recognition 64 7 Recognition and survival, or surviving recognition 75 8 Relationality as self-dispossession 92 9 Uncounted bodies, incalculable performativity 97 10 Responsiveness as responsibility 104 11 Ex-propriating the performative 126 12 Dispossessed languages, or singularities named and renamed 131 13 The political promise of the performative 140 14 The governmentality of "crisis" and its resistances 149 15 Enacting another vulnerability: On owing and owning 158 16 Trans-border affective foreclosures and state racism 164 17 Public grievability and the politics of memorialization 173 18 The political affects of plural performativity 176 19 Conundrums of solidarity 184 20 The university, the humanities, and the book bloc 188 21 Spaces of appearance, politics of exposure 193 Notes 198 Index 205

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 ...

(BISAC Subject Heading)SOC052000

(Produktform)Electronic book text

(VLB-Produktgruppen)TN000

Judith Butler

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Judith Butler

[Book]

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