Agonistic Mourning

Download or read book Agonistic Mourning written by Athena Athanasiou and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.