Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black

at'This is a brilliant and readable book that has the great strength of bringing social and political theory together with engaging ethnography.'Judith Butler, University of California, BerkeleyHow might mourning turn into an event of agonistic performativity?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 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.Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in Athens, Greece.Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN [PPC] 978-1-4744-2014-3ISBN [cover] 978-1-4744-2015-0Barcode