Agonistic mourning : political dissidence and the Women in Black / Athena Athanasiou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Athanasiou, Athena, author.

Series:

Incitements

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Žene u crnom (Organization : Serbia).

Mourning customs--Political aspects--Serbia--Belgrade--History--20th century.

Mourning customs.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Women.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Dissenters.

Physical Description:

xii, 348 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Drawing on a range of philosophical, anthropological and political theories, the author 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 Women in Black of Belgrade movement 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.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Mourning otherwise

Gendered intimacies of the Nationalist Archive

Spectral spaces of counter-memory

Political languages of responsiveness and the disquiet of silence

Epilogue: agonistic re-membering of the political

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474420150

147442015X

9781474420143

1474420141

OCLC:

962353123