Vulnerability in resistance

by Butler, Judith Gambetti, Zeynep Sabsay, Leticia

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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.

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Full title :Vulnerability in resistance / Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay, editors.

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Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 336 pages .)

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ISBN:9780822362791, 0822362791, 9780822362906, 0822362902
oclc:on1138965359
LC Classification:HQ1190
Dewey Decimal:305.4201

Rethinking vulnerability and resistance / Judith Butler -- Risking oneself and one's identity : agonism revisited / Zeynep Gambetti -- Bouncing back : vulnerability and resistance in times of resilience / Sarah Bracke -- Vulnerable times / Marianne Hirsch -- Barricades : resources and residues of resistance / Bașak Ertür -- Dreams and the political subject / Elena Loizidou -- Vulnerable corporealities and precarious belongings in Mona Hatoum's art / Elena Tzelepis -- Precarious politics : the activism of "bodies that count" (aligning with those that don't) in Palestine's colonial frontier / Rema Hammami -- When Antigone is a man : feminist "trouble" in the late colony / Nükhet Sirman -- Violence against women in Turkey : vulnerability, sexuality, and eros / Meltem Ahıska -- Bare subjectivity : faces, veils, and masks in the contemporary allegories of western citizenship / Elsa Dorlin -- Nonsovereign agonism (or, beyond affirmation versus vulnerability) / Athena Athanasiou -- Permeable bodies : vulnerability, affective powers, hegemony / Leticia Sabsay.

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Feminist theory Fragility (Psychology) Identity politics Mouvements sociaux -- Philosophie Politique identitaire Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) Power (Social sciences) Rôle selon le sexe -- Aspect politique Sex role -- Political aspects Social movements -- Philosophy Théorie féministe Vulnérabilité (Trait de personnalité) Vulnerability (Personality trait)