Dispossession: The Performative in the Political

Dispossession: The Performative in the Political

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. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the disenfranchisement associated with unjust dispossession of land, economic and political power, and basic conditions for living?

In the context of neoliberal expropriation of labor and livelihood, dispossession opens up a performative condition of being both affected by injustice and prompted to act. From the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa to the anti-neoliberal gatherings at Puerta del Sol, Syntagma and Zucchotti Park, an alternative political and affective economy of bodies in public is being formed. Bodies on the street are precarious - exposed to police force, they are also standing for, and opposing, their dispossession. These bodies insist upon their collective standing, organize themselves without and against hierarchy, and refuse to become disposable: they demand regard. This book interrogates the agonistic and open-ended corporeality and conviviality of the crowd as it assembles in cities to protest political and economic dispossession through a performative dispossession of the sovereign subject and its propriety.
Country USA
Brand Polity
Manufacturer Polity
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2013-02-22
UnitCount 1
UPCs 783324884043
EANs 9780745653815

Country	USA
Brand	Polity
Manufacturer	Polity
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2013-02-22
UnitCount	1
UPCs	783324884043
EANs	9780745653815

Dispossession: The Performative in the Political

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