Beschreibung:
Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism.
Table of Contents Preface 1: Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession 2: The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance) 3: A caveat about the "primacy of economy" 4: Sexual dis-possessions 5: Trans/possessions, or bodies beyond themselves 6: The sociality of self-poetics: Talking back to the violence of recognition 7: Recognition and survival; or, surviving recognition 8: Relationality as self-dispossession 9: Uncounted bodies, incalculable performativity 10: Responsiveness as responsibility 11: Ex-propriating (the) performative 12: Dispossessed languages, or singularities named and renamed 13: The political promise of the performative 14: The governmentality of "crisis" and its resistances 15: Enacting another vulnerability: On owing and owning 16: Trans-border affective foreclosures and state racism 17: Public grievability and the politics of memorialization 18: The political affects of plural performativity 19: Conundrums of solidarity 20: The university, the humanities, and the book bloc 21: Spaces of appearance, politics of exposure Notes