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Vulnerability in Resistance by Butler, Judith (editor);Gambetti, Zeynep (editor);Sabsay, Leticia (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Vulnerability in Resistance about?

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, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in Resistance articulate an understanding of the role of vulnerability in practices of resistance. They consider how vulnerability is constructed, invoked, and mobilized within neoliberal discourse, the politics of war, resistance to authoritarian and securitarian power, in LGBTQI struggles, and in the resistance to occupation and colonial violence. The essays offer a feminist account of political agency by exploring occupy movements and street politics, informal groups at checkpoints and barricades, practices of self-defense, hunger strikes, transgressive enactments of solidarity and mourning, infrastructural mobilizations, and aesthetic and erotic interventions into public space that mobilize memory and expose forms of power. Pointing to possible strategies for a feminist politics of transversa

Who reads Vulnerability in Resistance?

Author

Butler, Judith (editor);Gambetti, Zeynep (editor);Sabsay, Leticia (editor)

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822362791

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Philosophy, Science