Bodies That Still Matter

Annemie Halsema is Socrates hoogleraar “Wijsgerige Antropologie en de grondslagen van het humanisme” aan de universiteit Leiden en Universitair Hoofddocent Filosofie aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Katja Kwastek is professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Roel van den Oever is assistant professor of English Literature at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

• Introduction, Performativity, On Butler's Theory of Agency, The Psychic Life of Horror: Abjection and Racialization in Butler's Thought - Eyo Ewara, Beyond Gender(s), Speech, The Performative Edge of Non-Politicians: Populism and Shifting Legitimacy in US Presidential Politics, Talking Back as an Accented Speaker? Reframing Butler's Idea of Subversive Resignification, What's in a Name? Don't Ask, Don't Tell and Private Romeo, Precarity, Rethinking Counseling from a Relational Perspective: From Alleviating Suffering to 'Becoming Human', Bridging Conversations: 'Paradigm Cases' of Dependency in Eva Kittay and Judith Butler, Dancing the Image: Complicity, Responsibility and Spectatorship, Santiago Sierra's Workers Who Cannot Be Paid: Precarious Labor in Contemporary Art, Assembly, Rethinking Radical Democracy with Butler: The Voice of Plurality, Strategies of (Self-)Empowerment: On the Performativity of Assemblies in and as Theatre, Bodies That Still Matter, Index