Search Results for Judith Butler

... of such received wisdom, but not by trying to refute it empirically. Instead, the article articulates and elucidates the latent concept of “normative violence” lodged within the writings of Judith Butler. Normative violence names not a type of violence that is somehow “normative,” but the violence of norms...

... of a legal discourse of potential violence. Using Judith Butler and Robert Gooding-Williams’ frame of a “racial field of vision,” this paper juxtaposes the colorblind legal narrative of potential violence with cultural narratives of race that mark Black masculinity with the signifiers of threat...

... provide important insights into the political power of maternal politics, they do not adequately explain its pedagogical function. Bringing to bear the insights of Judith Butler’s performative theory of public assembly and Rita Laura Segato’s anthropology of violence, this article suggests that maternal...

... be imagined within the very terms of that pessimism. Drawing from the work of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, an analysis of the iterated violence that constitutes the political status quo points to an always available opening in which the utopian impulse for an environmental democracy...

... of difference vein remains Iris Marion Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990), and the most influential work in post-structuralist social theory is still Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Fe11linis111 and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge...

... Theory, 2004). He is also co-author and co-editor (with Samuel A. Chambers) of Judith Butler and Political Theory (2008) and Judith Butler's Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters (2008). His current research is on the policy processes that materialize metaphor as the built environment. Brian Caterino...

... such as Bonnie Honig, Judith Butler, Chantal Mouffe, Stefanie Fishel and Achille Mbembe. They help us to think through how the novel coronavirus is framed as a threat to democracy.12 Politics and public administration are not just about voting, or representation, but discourse, narratives, framing, voice...

..., and states where white workers had once enjoyed a bigger piece of the American Dream. White power music is one of the more troubling aspects of their push back against these decades of downward mobility and political neglect. Love approvingly cites Judith Butler's work on precarity to help us comprehend how...

... Tampio, "Assemblages and the Multitude: Deleuze, Hardt, Negri, and the Postmodern Left;' European Journal of Political Theory 8:3 (2009), pp. 383-400; Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (New York, NY: Routledge, 1990), Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London, UK: Verso, 2004), and Frames...

... with her criticism of a biological, racialized construction of Jewishness, amplifying his analysis through the work of several other theorists (Eve Sedgwick, Sander Gilman, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler in the main) to claim that analyzing how contemporary discourses and practices stigmatize certain...

... in language, culture, and the politics of gender and sexuality. His first book, Untinzely Politics, was published by Edinburgh and New York University Presses in 2003. He is currently working on two books on the political theory of Judith Butler (both with Terrell Carver), and a third book on the queer...

... a specific response, but also an impediment, to such authority. Hence, without discursive subjection, no agency is possible. Or, to quote Judith Butler, to whose work Bhabha sometimes refers (more on this point later): "There is only a taking 12 For historical and contemporary applications of the notion...

... as the originary site of language's force can make the systemic or the structural sometimes harder to perceive. The question posed to such approaches in Judith Butler's influential Excitable Speech-"How is the analysis of the discursive historicity of power unwittingly restricted when the subject is presumed...

...' critiques and normative affirmations, Wingenbach is able to address some of liberalism's most challenging theoretical problematics in several important ways. First, the contestable nature of political groundings for post-foundational thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, William Connolly, Judith Butler...

... affirmations, Wingenbach is able to address some of liberalism's most challenging theoretical problematics in several important ways. First, the contestable nature of political groundings for post-foundational thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, William Connolly, Judith Butler, Chantal Mouffe, or Stephen White...

... engages with Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and John Stuart Mill and still manages to write a book that is mostly not about theory, while paying homage to a rich body of work dedicated to the discussion of"counter-conduct" (Foucault), "eccentricity" (Mill), and "subversion" (Butler). She unpacks...

..., and so on) creates political subjects with unequal access to public performances of anger.50 This account of anger thus also requires an analysis of the political intelligibility of the anger being performed and cited. "Intelligibility" has been a central concept in Judith Butler's account of how...

... [a] person would allow you to attribute gender with absolute certainty."68 Finally, Judith Butler points out that the efforts to locate the single gene responsible for sex differentiation have failed, and implies that this challenges the sex binary.69 I am not presently concerned with the substance...

... that Judith Butler's work on gender and sexuality has provided for many gays and lesbians across the globe. It would be wrong, however, to end a review of such a smart, engaging, and compelling book on an-albeit significant-squabble of the meaning and impact of postmodernism. Bronner's book is so rich...

... vein, Judith Butler argues, "to be addressed is not merely to be recognized for what one already is, but to have the very term conferred by which the recognition of existence becomes possible43 Subjects of responsibility become recognized and recognizable not prior to discursive regimes but insofar...