Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia
Sabsay 1
1. Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance / Judith Butler
12
2. Risking Oneself and One's Identity: Agonism Revisited / Zeynep
Gambetti 28
3. Bouncing Back: Vulnerability and Resistance in Times of
Resilience / Sarah Bracke 52
4. Vulnerable Times / Marianne Hirsch 76
5. Barricades: Resources and Residues of Resistance / Başak
ErtÜr 97
6. Dreams and the Political Subject / Elena Loizidou 122
7. Vulnerable Corporealities and Precarious Belongings in Mona
Hatoum's Art / Elena Tzelepis 146
8. Precarious Politics: The Activism of "Bodies That Count"
(Aligning with Those That Don't) in Palestine's Colonial Frontier /
Rema Hammami 167
9. When Antigone Is a Man: Feminist "Trouble" in the Late Colony /
NÜkhet Sirman 191
10. Violence against Women in Turkey: Vulnerability, Sexuality, and
Eros / Meltem Ahiska 211
11. Bare Subjectivity: Faces, Veils, and Masks in the Contemporary
Allegories of Western Citizenship / Elsa Dorlin 236
12. Nonsovereign Agonism (or, Beyond Affirmation versus
Vulnerability) / Athena Athanasiou 256
13. Permeable Bodies: Vulnerability, Affective Powers, Hegemony /
Leticia Sabsay 278
Bibliography 303
Contributors 325
Index 329
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature
and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Zeynep Gambetti is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the
Department of Political Science and International Relations at
BoğaziÇi University.
Leticia Sabsay is Assistant Professor in the Gender Institute at
the London School of Economics and Political Science.
"Interdisciplinary, relevant and rich in content, this collection
of essays succeeds in thwarting the vulnerability/resistance
dichotomy, and offers us plenty of feminist-inspired reimagined
political-philosophical situated vocabularies for the here and
now." - Evelien Geerts (Angelaki) "This is an important volume for
those interested in grammars of resistance, protest cultures, and
the mobilization of grief as a route into collective political
subjectivity. Its crosscultural range enables us to see overlaps in
forms of embodied resistance even when these latter are specific to
a milieu and political condition."
- Pramod K Nayar (Journal of International and Global
Studies) "A timely and deeply insightful contribution that may be
of great interest to those engaged in critical international
politics.... One of the greatest strengths of the volume lies in
the scope of the essays. Throughout the volume understandings and
uses of vulnerability change and morph, refusing any dogmatic
definition. The range of engagements that the anthology encompasses
manages to tie together disparate concepts and contexts around a
simple, yet profoundly provocative, premise: that a theoretical
embrace of vulnerability can take us to a new understanding of
resistance and the resisting subject." - Jennifer Hobbs
(International Feminist Journal of Politics) "For anyone interested
in Butler’s work, this volume will be very valuable. Indeed, as a
whole, Vulnerability in Resistance is an extremely provocative and
valuable contribution to global feminist studies." - Ladelle
McWhorter (Contemporary Political Theory) "Highly recommendable for
anyone interested at questions related to social movements,
performativity, body politics, precarity, and resistance of the
political violence." - Mikko Joronen (Space and Polity) "A
brilliant experiment that brings together a variety of heterogenous
reflections." - Marco Checchi (Ephemera) "The richness of the
accounts offered in the book . . . creates a distinctive space at
the intersections of feminist, cultural, social and political
theory." - Claudia Lapping (European Journal of Women's Studies)
"Offers diverse and insightful opportunities for radical politics
today. . . . A valuable contribution to feminist geography." -
Angharad Butler-Rees (Gender, Place & Culture)
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