Vulnerability in Resistance

Vulnerability in Resistance

Vulnerability in Resistance

Vulnerability in Resistance

Hardcover

$107.95 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores

Related collections and offers


Overview

This volume recasts the concepts of vulnerability and resistance, moving beyond the assumptions that they are opposites. Focusing on recent events and cultural practices in Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the essays connect vulnerability to resistance by showing how women and other minorities use their own vulnerability as resistance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822362791
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/08/2016
Pages: 348
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

Zeynep Gambetti is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University.

Leticia Sabsay is Assistant Professor in the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Table of Contents

Illustrations  vii

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction / Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay  1

1. Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance / Judith Butler  12

2. Risking Oneself and One's Identity: Agonism Revisited / Zeynep Gambetti  28

3. Bouncing Back: Vulnerability and Resistance in Times of Resilience / Sarah Bracke  52

4. Vulnerable Times / Marianne Hirsch  76

5. Barricades: Resources and Residues of Resistance / Başak Ertür  97

6. Dreams and the Political Subject / Elena Loizidou  122

7. Vulnerable Corporealities and Precarious Belongings in Mona Hatoum's Art / Elena Tzelepis  146

8. Precarious Politics: The Activism of "Bodies That Count" (Aligning with Those That Don't) in Palestine's Colonial Frontier / Rema Hammami  167

9. When Antigone Is a Man: Feminist "Trouble" in the Late Colony / Nükhet Sirman  191

10. Violence against Women in Turkey: Vulnerability, Sexuality, and Eros / Meltem Ahiska  211

11. Bare Subjectivity: Faces, Veils, and Masks in the Contemporary Allegories of Western Citizenship / Elsa Dorlin  236

12. Nonsovereign Agonism (or, Beyond Affirmation versus Vulnerability) / Athena Athanasiou  256

13. Permeable Bodies: Vulnerability, Affective Powers, Hegemony / Leticia Sabsay  278

Bibliography  303

Contributors  325

Index  329

What People are Saying About This

Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography - Ariella Azoulay

"This book presents an outstanding chorus of political theorists who are engaged in vivid conversations not only with each other but also with the many activists and citizens invested in devising and practicing different politics in public squares, in courts, and in the media. They ask what resistance is and how to conceptualize the vulnerability that is implicated in it while turning a broad spectrum of lived experiences into reflective practice and informed theory. These fascinating contributions delineate the terrain of civil struggles that have emerged in the last decade and generate an original and much-needed lexicon of counterpolitics."

The Art of Post-Dictatorship - Vikki Bell

"Vulnerability in Resistance marks an exciting step forward in discussions of the concept of vulnerability, signaling important and distinctive directions in how we understand human rights, forms of protest, and debates on the 'necropolitical.' Theoretically ambitious, this collection opens up new possibilities for collaborative thinking across the humanities."

From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews