Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

By James J. Butler. 2004

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• Slumdog cities: rethinking subaltern urbanism. (2011, unknown): “But it is also, as Judith Butler (2004: 98, 67) points out, a state of ‘desubjectivation’, a space where ‘certain subjects undergo a suspension of their ontological status as subjects when states of emergency are invoked’.”
• Why critical literacy should turn to ‘the affective turn’: making a case for critical affective literacy (2016, background): “Recognition’s complex workings (Butler, 1993, 2004a) prevent us from recognizing the vulnerability of other bodies, especially the bodies that are re/presented as enemies.”
• What Can Psychoanalysis Offer Organization Studies Today? Taking Stock of Current Developments and Thinking about Future Directions (2012, background): “In her recent work Butler (2004b, 2009) indicates that the post-9/11 world produces unlivable and unviable lives, and she thereby forces us to think about whether it is possible, given the conditions that govern us, to produce livable and viable lives (Loizidou, 2008).”
• Depersonalization: Standing in the Spaces Between Recognition and Interpellation (2010, background): “One’s paradoxical dependence on their agents of socialization and interpellation is humiliating—the humiliation of not being self-sufficient and sovereign, of having sacrificed their unique experience of Reality in favor of social inclusion (Butler, 1997).”
• Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2008, background): “…political debate, and the single death, that of Bechdel’s father, someone who might be categorized (however problematically) as a pedophile, suicide, or closet homosexual, raises the possibility that there are some lives that are not “grievable,” certainly not in a public context (Butler 2004, 20).”
• Circulating sadness: witnessing Filipina mothers' stories of family separation (2009, background): “For the same reason but writing of representation more generally (that is, not of testimony in particular), Butler (2004) has argued that ‘the other’ is humanized through representations that both fail and reveal their failure to fully represent.”
• Reading Anger in Early Childhood Intra-Actions (2014, background): “It is not just Jonathan who is humiliating him, but also the circle of friends who have surrounded him, and on whom he has depended, until now, for what Butler (2004) calls a viable life.”
• Pre-Crime and Counter-Terrorism Imagining Future Crime in the ‘War on Terror’ (2009, background): “As Butler observes, although deeming someone dangerous ‘ is considered a state prerogative … it is also a potential licence to prejudicial perceptions and a virtual mandate to heightened racialized ways of looking and judging in the name of national security ’ ( Butler 2004: 77 ).”
• Critical pedagogy and emotion: working through ‘troubled knowledge’ in posttraumatic contexts (2013, background): “Students are enabled to establish and maintain this attentiveness, when they begin to question and challenge arguments based on binaries like us/them, perpetrators/victims, friends/enemies, and good/evil, a stereotyping of groups considered to be more or less grievable (Butler, 2004).”
• ‘This is your face on meth’: The punitive spectacle of ‘white trash’ in the rural war on drugs (2013, methodology): “Here we find helpful Judith Butler’s (2009) discussion of framing, when she suggests that to frame is also to ‘set up’ a person, as in the ‘framing’ of someone for a crime they did not commit. FOM mug shots might then be best understood as a state project framing meth users out of context and only i”
• Making sense of the complex entanglement between emotion and pedagogy: contributions of the affective turn (2016, background): “Por ende, pueden surgir nuevas percepciones y cuestionamientos, como: ¿cuáles son las dificultades psicosociales que restringen las posibilidades de los alumnos de “convertirse en otro” (Butler, 2004b: 173) luego de pasar por situaciones sociales, políticas e históricas difíciles?”
• Transactions After 9/11: The Banal Face of the Preemptive Strike (2008, background): “In this way, the sovereign lines that designate the exceptional spaces of the war on terror are not limited to the oft-cited Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and extraordinary rendition flights (Agamben 2005; Butler 2004; Edkins et al. 2004).”