Medical Entomology and Zoology· 2013
Dispossession: The Performative in the Political
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Short summary
This work explores the concept of 'dispossession' not as a simple loss, but as a performative act deeply embedded within political structures and human experience.
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Key points
- Dispossession is analyzed as a performative act, not merely a state of loss.
- The book connects dispossession to concepts of recognition, economy, and language.
- It investigates how dispossession shapes human bodies, social relations, and political structures.
- The work critiques metaphysical assumptions about substance and economy.
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Abstract
Preface vii 1 Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession 1 2 The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance) 10 3 A caveat about the primacy of economy 38 4 Sexual dispossessions 44 5 (Trans)possessions, or bodies beyond themselves 55 6 The sociality of self-poietics: Talking back to the violence of recognition 64 7 Recognition and survival, or surviving recognition 75 8 Relationality as self-dispossession 92 9 Uncounted bodies, incalculable performativity 97 10 Responsiveness as responsibility 104 11 Ex-propriating the performative 126 12 Dispossessed languages, or singularities named and renamed 131 13 The political promise of the performative 140 14 The governmentality of crisis and its resistances 149 15 Enacting another vulnerability: On owing and owning 158 16 Trans-border affective foreclosures and state racism 164 17 Public grievability and the politics of memorialization 173 18 The political affects of plural performativity 176 19 Conundrums of solidarity 184 20 The university, the humanities, and the book bloc 188 21 Spaces of appearance, politics of exposure 193 Notes 198 Index 205
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