Judith Butler e Athena Athanasiou. (2019) Spoliazione. I senza casa, senza patria, senza cittadinanza. Milano: Mimesis, pp.176, 15 €. ISBN 9788857552088 (Titolo Originale: Dispossession. The Performative in the Political. London: Polity, 2013)

Abstract

“Spoliazione. I senza casa, senza patria, senza cittadinanza” is the last work published in Italy by queer theorist Judith Butler that together with the Greek anthropologist Athena Athanasiou examine the most recent protest movements in the world to interpret their meanings through a examination on the conditions of injustice that lead people to leave the private sector to occupy the squares and to invade the public space with their bodies. The dialogue between the authors takes shape starting from the protests in Athens during the socio-economic crisis and the stalemate of the state apparatus to then examine other forms and riots of resistance to the dispossession and depredation of citizens in others areas of the globe.
The book published in our country by Mimesis (2019), edited and translated by Agostino Carbone, psychologist and research doctor in gender studies, is presented as an interdisciplinary work that intercepts the question of political participation and coexistence on the border between the moral philosophy, community psychology, social anthropology, political sociology and gender studies.