Vulnerability in resistance /

Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, inclu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Butler, Judith (Editor), Gambetti, Zeynep (Editor), Sabsay, Leticia (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Durham: Duke University Press, c2016.
Subjects:
Feminist theory.
Identity politics.
Power (Social sciences)
Sex role > Political aspects.
Social movements > Philosophy.
Vulnerability (Personality trait)
Table of Contents:
  • 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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