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- ISBN 9781474420150
- Dimensions: 135 x 190mm
- Publication Date: 17 May 2017
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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 of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. She is co-author, with Judith Butler, of Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2013). She is the author of Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (Athens, 2007) and Crisis as a State of Exception: Critiques and Resistances (Athens, 2012). She is editor of Feminist Theory and Cultural Critique (Athens, 2006), Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and 'the Greeks' (SUNY Press, 2010) and Biosocialities: Perspectives on Medical Anthropology (Athens, 2011).
