Vulnerability in Resistance

Published by Duke University Press 2016

Vulnerability in Resistance

Edited by: Judith Butler , Zeynep Gambetti and Leticia Sabsay

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822373490

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"Interdisciplinary, relevant and rich in content, this collection of essays succeeds in thwarting the vulnerability/resistance dichotomy, and offers us plenty of feminist-inspired reimagined political-philosophical situated vocabularies for the here and now."

-- Evelien Geerts Angelaki

"This is an important volume for those interested in grammars of resistance, protest cultures, and the mobilization of grief as a route into collective political subjectivity. Its crosscultural range enables us to see overlaps in forms of embodied resistance even when these latter are specific to a milieu and political condition."

-- Pramod K Nayar Journal of International and Global Studies

"A timely and deeply insightful contribution that may be of great interest to those engaged in critical international politics.... One of the greatest strengths of the volume lies in the scope of the essays. Throughout the volume understandings and uses of vulnerability change and morph, refusing any dogmatic definition. The range of engagements that the anthology encompasses manages to tie together disparate concepts and contexts around a simple, yet profoundly provocative, premise: that a theoretical embrace of vulnerability can take us to a new understanding of resistance and the resisting subject."

-- Jennifer Hobbs International Feminist Journal of Politics

"For anyone interested in Butler’s work, this volume will be very valuable. Indeed, as a whole, Vulnerability in Resistance is an extremely provocative and valuable contribution to global feminist studies."

-- Ladelle McWhorter Contemporary Political Theory

"Highly recommendable for anyone interested at questions related to social movements, performativity, body politics, precarity, and resistance of the political violence."

-- Mikko Joronen Space and Polity

"A brilliant experiment that brings together a variety of heterogenous reflections."

-- Marco Checchi Ephemera

"The richness of the accounts offered in the book . . . creates a distinctive space at the intersections of feminist, cultural, social and political theory."

-- Claudia Lapping European Journal of Women's Studies

"Offers diverse and insightful opportunities for radical politics today. . . . A valuable contribution to feminist geography."

-- Angharad Butler-Rees Gender, Place & Culture

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti and Leticia Sabsay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance Judith Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
2 Risking Oneself and One’s Identity Agonism Revisited Zeynep Gambetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3 Bouncing Back Vulnerability and Resistance in Times of Resilience Sarah Bracke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4 Vulnerable Times Marianne Hirsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5 Barricades Resources and Residues of Resistance Başak Ertür Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6 Dreams and the Political Subject Elena Loizidou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
7 Vulnerable Corporealities and Precarious Belongings in Mona Hatoum’s Art Elena Tzelepis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
8 Precarious Politics The Activism of “Bodies That Count” (Aligning with Those That Don’t) in Palestine’s Colonial Frontier Rema Hammami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
9 When Antigone Is a Man Feminist “Trouble” in the Late Colony Nükhet Sirman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
10 Violence against Women in Turkey: Vulnerability, Sexuality, and Eros Meltem Ahıska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
11 Bare Subjectivity Faces, Veils, and Masks in the Contemporary Allegories of Western Citizenship Elsa Dorlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
12 Nonsovereign Agonism (or, Beyond Affirmation versus Vulnerability) Athena Athanasiou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
13 Permeable Bodies Vulnerability, Affective Powers, Hegemony Leticia Sabsay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Other: 29 illustrations

eBook

Published: October 13, 2016
ISBN: 9780822373490