Alkisti Efthymiou in Conversation with Athena Athanasiou: Spectral Publics and Antifascist Eventualities
Alkisti Efthymiou in Conversation with Athena Athanasiou: Spectral Publics and Antifascist Eventualities
Author(s): Alkisti Efthymiou, Athena AthanasiouSubject(s): Politics, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Culture and social structure , Social Theory, Nationalism Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Институтот за општествени и хуманистички науки – Скопје
Keywords: Women in Black; public mourning; memory; political agency; relationality; social movements
Summary/Abstract: This text is a conversation between Athena Athanasiou and Alkisti Efthymiou, drawing from Athena Athanasiou’s new book, Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). The conversation discusses the critical potency of collective subjectivities such as the Women in Black and expands on issues that include political agency, vulnerability in resistance, spacing appearance, performing public mourning, or the traveling of social movements, associating them with contemporary feminist and antifascist urgencies. Central to the text is the concept of non-sovereign agonism, a form of political agency that addresses (or takes into account) the dispossessed quality of subjectivity and pays attention to the relationality through which we are constituted as subjects.
Journal: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture
- Issue Year: 16/2019
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 102-113
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English