{"product_id":"dispossession-9780745653815","title":"Dispossession","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDispossession 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A productive read and develops and discusses many key themes that cross disciplinary boundaries. The book will therefore prove useful to various readers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An engaging read... does an excellent job of articulating, in various ways, the need to conceptualise dispossession outside the logic of possession\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Full of fantastic and well-argued insights.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What makes political responsiveness possible? With their rich and distinct wealth of philosophical knowledge and continuous political engagements, leading feminist scholars Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou set out to answer this question. Beginning from an awareness that we are all relational and interdependent beings, their lucid, compelling exchanges encourage us all to reflect again on what feminist and queer theory can contribute to the search for forms of collectivity capable of intervening in battles against these cruel and precarious times.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynne Segal, Birkbeck, University of London and author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In a series of bite-sized conversations, Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou explore the concept of dispossession and show its links to subjectivity, relationality, occupation, precarity, bio-politics and collective protest. As they push each other for clarification and introduce a range of examples, they jointly craft a new vision of what 'performative politics' might entail.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVikki Bell, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance) 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 A caveat about the \"primacy of economy\" 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Sexual dispossessions 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 (Trans)possessions, or bodies beyond themselves 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The sociality of self-poietics: Talking back to the violence of recognition 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Recognition and survival, or surviving recognition 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Relationality as self-dispossession 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Uncounted bodies, incalculable performativity 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Responsiveness as responsibility 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Ex-propriating the performative 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Dispossessed languages, or singularities named and renamed 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The political promise of the performative 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The governmentality of \"crisis\" and its resistances 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Enacting another vulnerability: On owing and owning 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Trans-border affective foreclosures and state racism 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Public grievability and the politics of memorialization 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The political affects of plural performativity 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Conundrums of solidarity 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The university, the humanities, and the book bloc 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Spaces of appearance, politics of exposure 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 205\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736485736791,"sku":"9780745653815","price":20.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dispossession-9780745653815","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}