Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence And The Women In Black (incitements)
by Athena Athanasiou /
2017 / English / PDF
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Drawing on a range of philosophical, anthropological and political
theories, Athena Athanasiou offers a new way of thinking about
agonistic performativity with its critical connections to national
and gender politics and alongside the political intricacies of
affectivity, courage and justice. Through an ethnographic account
of the urban feminist and antinationalist movement Women in Black
of Belgrade during the Yugoslav wars she shows that we might
understand their dissident politics of mourning as a means to
refigure political life beyond sovereign accounts of subjectivity
and agency.
Drawing on a range of philosophical, anthropological and political
theories, Athena Athanasiou offers a new way of thinking about
agonistic performativity with its critical connections to national
and gender politics and alongside the political intricacies of
affectivity, courage and justice. Through an ethnographic account
of the urban feminist and antinationalist movement Women in Black
of Belgrade during the Yugoslav wars she shows that we might
understand their dissident politics of mourning as a means to
refigure political life beyond sovereign accounts of subjectivity
and agency.
