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This book develops a performative and relational approach to
gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more
limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation
that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary
transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the psychosocial
dimension of sexual life, Sabsay challenges accepted ideas of
increased emancipation, and the steady extension of rights,
offering instead a critique of the liberal imaginary that is at the
base of the sexual rights-bearing subject. The book offers a notion
of sexual embodiment that provides an alternative to individualism,
one that is social, radically relational and psychically divided,
and that implies a different conception of democratic sexual
politics for our time.This book brings together political and
cultural analysis of sexual rights discourse with a strong theory
of the relational subject whose political investments and
articulations depend on a political imaginary. This is a highly
original and methodical text which will be of particular interest
to academics and scholars of gender and sexuality studies,
sociology, politics and psychology.
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 transversal engagements and suggesting a politics of
bodily resistance that does not disavow forms of vulnerability, the
contributors develop a new conception of embodiment and sociality
within fields of contemporary power. Contributors. Meltem Ahiska,
Athena Athanasiou, Sarah Bracke, Judith Butler, Elsa Dorlin, Basak
Ertur, Zeynep Gambetti, Rema Hammami, Marianne Hirsch, Elena
Loizidou, Leticia Sabsay, Nukhet Sirman, Elena Tzelepis
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 transversal engagements and suggesting a politics of
bodily resistance that does not disavow forms of vulnerability, the
contributors develop a new conception of embodiment and sociality
within fields of contemporary power. Contributors. Meltem Ahiska,
Athena Athanasiou, Sarah Bracke, Judith Butler, Elsa Dorlin, Basak
Ertur, Zeynep Gambetti, Rema Hammami, Marianne Hirsch, Elena
Loizidou, Leticia Sabsay, Nukhet Sirman, Elena Tzelepis
This book develops a performative and relational approach to
gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more
limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation
that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary
transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the psychosocial
dimension of sexual life, Sabsay challenges accepted ideas of
increased emancipation, and the steady extension of rights,
offering instead a critique of the liberal imaginary that is at the
base of the sexual rights-bearing subject. The book offers a notion
of sexual embodiment that provides an alternative to individualism,
one that is social, radically relational and psychically divided,
and that implies a different conception of democratic sexual
politics for our time.This book brings together political and
cultural analysis of sexual rights discourse with a strong theory
of the relational subject whose political investments and
articulations depend on a political imaginary. This is a highly
original and methodical text which will be of particular interest
to academics and scholars of gender and sexuality studies,
sociology, politics and psychology.
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