Athena Athanasiou departs from recent discussions of mourning, including in the work of Judith Butler, by raising an altogether original question which both challenges and extends the current orthodoxy: what would it be like to mourn the dead of the enemy?
Athena Athanasiou departs from recent discussions of mourning, including in the work of Judith Butler, by raising an altogether original question which both challenges and extends the current orthodoxy: what would it be like to mourn the dead of the enemy?
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).
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Acknowledgements Introduction Undoing grief as "feminine language" Biopolitics, sovereignty, nationalism Researching the affective life of a political subjectivity Towards non-sovereign agonism 1. Mourning Otherwise Feminism at war Emergencies and emergences Activism of loss, loss of activism Counter-memory, living on Critical agency and political catachresis "Anamnestic solidarity" and "wounded attachments" 2. Gendered Intimacies of the Nationalist Archive Restaging the archive Proper memories, proper names, proper victims Claiming the dead body of the national hero Desiring the nation, worshipping the leader Making "women" appropriate to the nation: fairies, witches, and mothers Demographic anxieties, gendered epidemics Singing the nineties Remains and spectres 3. Spectral Spaces of Counter-Memory Ghostly emergences In the square and beyond Every Wednesday, at half past three in the afternoon "Serbian Bastille" between national imaginary and performative displacements Agonism "at a standstill" Stasis as dissensus Public mourning and its (gendered) discontents (Not) Taking space as "woman" 4. Political Languages of Responsiveness and the Disquiet of Silence Inaudible voices, disqualified discourses Aporias of (un)speakability Speaking for others? Relational structures of address Activism as responsiveness The labor of witnessing Vocal registers of the political Political performativity between subjugation and insurrection Critical practices of political response-ability Silence as an event in language Epilogue: Agonistic re-membering of the political Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction Undoing grief as "feminine language" Biopolitics, sovereignty, nationalism Researching the affective life of a political subjectivity Towards non-sovereign agonism 1. Mourning Otherwise Feminism at war Emergencies and emergences Activism of loss, loss of activism Counter-memory, living on Critical agency and political catachresis "Anamnestic solidarity" and "wounded attachments" 2. Gendered Intimacies of the Nationalist Archive Restaging the archive Proper memories, proper names, proper victims Claiming the dead body of the national hero Desiring the nation, worshipping the leader Making "women" appropriate to the nation: fairies, witches, and mothers Demographic anxieties, gendered epidemics Singing the nineties Remains and spectres 3. Spectral Spaces of Counter-Memory Ghostly emergences In the square and beyond Every Wednesday, at half past three in the afternoon "Serbian Bastille" between national imaginary and performative displacements Agonism "at a standstill" Stasis as dissensus Public mourning and its (gendered) discontents (Not) Taking space as "woman" 4. Political Languages of Responsiveness and the Disquiet of Silence Inaudible voices, disqualified discourses Aporias of (un)speakability Speaking for others? Relational structures of address Activism as responsiveness The labor of witnessing Vocal registers of the political Political performativity between subjugation and insurrection Critical practices of political response-ability Silence as an event in language Epilogue: Agonistic re-membering of the political Notes Bibliography Index
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