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 accounts of subjectivity and agency.
ISBN: | 9781474420150 |
Publication date: | 17th May 2017 |
Author: | Athena Athanasiou |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 360 pages |
Genres: |
Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action Feminism and feminist theory Political science and theory Ethics and moral philosophy |