A01=Athena Athanasiou
agonistic theory
Author_Athena Athanasiou
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counter-memory
dissent
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mourning
political subjectivity
responsiveness
sovereignty
stasis
Product details
- ISBN 9781474420143
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 135 x 190mm
- Publication Date: 17 May 2017
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing on a range of philosophical, anthropological and political theories, Athena Athanasiou offers a new way of thinking about agonistic performativity with its critical connections to national and gender politics and alongside the political intricacies of affectivity, courage and justice. Through an ethnographic account of the urban feminist and antinationalist movement Women in Black of Belgrade during the Yugoslav wars, she shows that we might understand their dissident politics of mourning as a means to refigure political life beyond sovereign accounts of subjectivity and agency.
Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University for Social and Political Sciences, Greece. Her books include Agonistic Mourning (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Crisis as a State of Exception: Critiques and Resistances (Savvalas/Athens, 2012); Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body, and Biopolitics (Ekkremes/Athens, 2007). She is co-author, with Judith Butler, of Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2013). She has published numerous papers and book chapters on questions at the intersection between contemporary critical theory, gender theory, and politics of memory.
