Dispossession : the performative in the political / Judith Butler, conversations with Athena Athanasiou.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-204) and index.

Preface -- Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession -- The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance) -- A caveat about the'primacy of economy' -- Sexual dispossessions -- (Trans)possessions, or bodies beyond themselves -- The sociality of self-poietics : talking back to the violence of recognition -- Recognition and survival, or surviving recognition -- Relationality as self-dispossession -- Uncounted bodies, incalculable performativity -- Responsiveness as responsibility -- Ex-propriating the performative -- Dispossessed languages, or singularities named and renamed -- The political promise of the performative -- The governmentality of'crisis' and its resistances -- Enacting another vulnerability : on owing and owning -- Trans-border affective foreclosures and state racism -- Public grievability and the politics of memorialization -- The political affects of plural performativity -- Conundrums of solidarity -- The university, the humanities, and the book bloc -- Spaces of appearance, politics of exposure.