Bodies That Still Matter : : Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler / / ed. by Roel Oever, Katja Kwastek, Annemie Halsema.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Butler, Judith,; Cavarero, Adriana,; Ewara, Eyo,; Fischer-Lichte, Erika,; Halsema, Annemie,; Hui, Tingting,; Kwastek, Katja,; Nancy, Jean-Luc,; Oever, Roel van den,; Peetz, Julia,; Roei, Noa,; Schuhmann, Carmen,; Sigler, Friederike,; Weele, Simon van der,; Zaharijević, Adriana,
• HerausgeberIn: Halsema, Annemie,; Kwastek, Katja,; Oever, Roel,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)

Since the appearance of her early-career bestseller Gender Trouble in 1990, American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the most influential (and at times controversial) thinkers in academia. Her work addresses numerous socially pertinent topics such as gender normativity, political speech, media representations of war, and the democratic power of assembling bodies. The volume Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler brings together essays from scholars across academic disciplines who apply, reflect on, and further Butler's ideas to their own research. It includes a new essay by Butler herself, from which it takes its title. Organized around four key themes in Butler's scholarship - performativity, speech, precarity, and assembly - the volume offers an excellent introduction to the contemporary relevance of Butler's thinking, a multi-perspectival approach to key topics of contemporary critical theory, and a testimony to the vibrant interdisciplinary discourses characterizing much of today's humanities' research.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Performativity -- On Butler’s Theory of Agency -- The Psychic Life of Horror -- Beyond Gender(s) -- Speech -- The Performative Edge of Non-Politicians -- Talking Back as an Accented Speaker? -- What’s in a Name? -- Precarity -- Rethinking Counseling from a Relational Perspective -- Bridging Conversations -- Dancing the Image -- Santiago Sierra’s Workers Who Cannot Be Paid -- Assembly -- Rethinking Radical Democracy with Butler -- Strategies of (Self-)Empowerment -- Bodies That Still Matter -- About the Contributors -- Index