... by people exposing their vulnerability to failing infrastructural conditions and police power; plural and performative bodily resistance shows how bodies are being acted on by policies that are decimating livelihoods. In demonstrating this precarity, these bodies also resist these powers and enact a form...

... resilience as a neoliberal mode of subjectification and highlights vulnerability’s role within this subjectification and how that relates to resistance. resilience subjectification neoliberalism vulnerability security ...

... The high rate of violence against women in Turkey has become a central component of governmental, legal, and media initiatives as well as feminist politics, yet women’s vulnerability seems to be growing. This violence is represented in ways that foreclose memory and mourning by depicting women...

... This chapter seeks to displace the “affirmation versus vulnerability” schema by asking whether collective and collectively mobilized vulnerability would be a gesture that occasions (rather than finalizes) political action. It takes a closer look at vulnerability as aporia (what does this concept...

... The chapter explores the ways in which embodied vulnerability could bolster a radical democratic perspective. Drawing on Judith Butler’s conceptualization of vulnerability and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s theorization of antagonism and radical democratic practices, the chapter asks, How...

... of mothering, fathering, and lineage, Sila is not capable of infanticide. Rather, I argue that the novel points us toward queer relational performances of vulnerability that require us living with debility and slow death. I end the book with a reading of Zanele Muholi’s Queercide, a series of images stolen off...

... In the aftermath of violent histories, the notion of vulnerability can offer an alternative to trauma and its inexorable temporality. Looking forward toward alternative trajectories and an open future rather than backward toward the past, vulnerability can be a starting point rather than...