ISBN 978-2-88351-069-2
284 pages
2016
format 15.5 x 22.5 cm
paperback

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Politics of Coalition

Thinking Collective Action with Judith Butler

Delphine Gardey, Cynthia Kraus (ed.)

Quelles sont les conditions de possibilité de l’agir politique et d’une démocratie radicale? Proposant une lecture empirique et théorique de l’oeuvre de Judith Butler, ce livre discute l’actualité – parfois brûlante – des politiques de coalition dans différents contextes culturels. Bilingue, et rédigé par des auteures issues des quatre coins de l’Europe, il s’adresse à un large public intéressé par la pensée critique et les récents développements dans les études féministes, queer, postcoloniales et transnationales. Avec un inédit de Judith Butler.

What are the conditions of possibility for political agency and a radical democracy? This book offers empirical and theoretical contributions engaging with Judith Butler’s work and addressing the urgency of coalition politics in different cultural contexts. Written by researchers from all over Europe, the texts are available in French and English. The book is designed for a wide audience interested in critical thinking and the recent developments in feminist, queer, postcolonial and transnational studies. Including an unpublished text by Judith Butler.

Authors/editors

Delphine Gardey is a professor of contemporary history and director of the Institute of Gender Studies at the University of Geneva. She works on the history and sociology of the relations between gender, work, and technology, but also of bodies, gender and politics. Her recent book offers a material and gendered history of the French National Assembly.

Cynthia Kraus is a philosopher and a senior lecturer in gender studies and the social studies of science and medicine at the University of Lausanne. She works from an interdisciplinary perspective on the dynamics between laboratory research and clinical practice, professional and lay expertise, knowledge production and political action.

With contributions by Lorena Parini, Eirini Avramopoulou, Tal Dor, Sushila Mesquita, Patricia Purtschert, Sabine Hark, Philippe Corcuff, Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, Judith Butler.

Review

« Coalitions : lignes de fuites et sujets en tension »

Review by Eléonore Lépinard, mouvements.info (24.06.18)

« Note sur la coalition. Luttes politiques et ontologie sociale »

Review by Olivier Voirol, mouvements.info (24.06.18)

« Pour conclure, l’auteure suggère que la coalition des corps vulnérables en situations précaires doit être menée contre les formes logiques sécuritaires et contre les anciens et nouveaux paternalismes. »

Review by Camila Lima De Braga, published in la revue Questions de communication 31(28.11.17)