Contents

pp 5-6

List of Figures

pp 6-8

Introduction

pp 9-18

Performativity

pp 19-20

On Butler’s Theory of Agency

pp 21-30

The Psychic Life of Horror: Abjection and Racialization in Butler’s Thought

pp 31-41

Beyond Gender(s)

pp 42-46

Hors Genre

pp 47-50

Speech

pp 51-52

The Performative Edge of Non-Politicians: Populism and Shifting Legitimacy in US Presidential Politics

pp 53-64

Talking Back as an Accented Speaker?: Reframing Butler’s Idea of Subversive Resignification

pp 65-76

What’s in a Name?: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Private Romeo

pp 77-88

Precarity

pp 89-90

Rethinking Counseling from a Relational Perspective: From Alleviating Suffering to “Becoming Human”

pp 91-102

Bridging Conversations: “Paradigm Cases” of Dependency in Eva Kittay and Judith Butler

pp 103-112

Dancing the Image: Complicity, Responsibility and Spectatorship

pp 113-126

Santiago Sierra’s Workers Who Cannot Be Paid: Precarious Labor in Contemporary Art

pp 127-138

Assembly

pp 139-140

Rethinking Radical Democracy with Butler: The Voice of Plurality

pp 141-154

Strategies of (Self-)Empowerment: On the Performativity of Assemblies in and as Theatre

pp 155-176

Bodies That Still Matter

pp 177-194

About the Contributors

pp 195-198

Index

pp 199-201