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Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black

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Description for Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black Paperback. 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? Series: Incitements. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFFK; JPA; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 135. .
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? She draws on a wide range of philosophical and political theories to develop a new notion of agonistic democracy. Through an ethnographic account of the urban feminist and antinationalist movement Women in Black of Belgrade, Serbia {Zene u Crnom), she suggests that we can understand their desire for the political as a means to refigure political life beyond sovereign ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Incitements
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474420150
SKU
V9781474420150
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About Athena Athanasiou
Athena Athanasiou is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece.

Reviews for Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black
This is a brilliant and readable book that has the great strength of bringing social and political theory together with engaging ethnography.
Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley This is a passionate, engaged and philosophically complex book. It is a powerful meditation on the politics of mourning. In one place, Athanasiou recalls interviewing Slavica ... Read more

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