Polychroniou, Ariadni
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Open Philosophy
The accurate illustration of the contemporary refugee subject has presented an unprecedented theoretical, epistemological and methodological challenge to all fields of academic research. Seeking for alternative philosophical modalities capable of liberating refugee representation from the suffocating threat–victim bipolarity, this article criticall...
Ruiz Gutiérrez, Adriana María Gómez Guzmán, María Soledad
Resumen Reimaginarunacomunidadsobrelabasedelavulnerabilidad implica reconocer nuestra responsabilidad para con aquéllos que prosperan y aquéllos que no logran persistir porque son abandonados o eliminados. El reconocimiento de nuestra vulnerabilidad nos permite encontrar otras formas comunitarias que, a partir de los vínculos humanos de protección,...
Davids, Nuraan Waghid, Yusef
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Academic Activism in Higher Education
In this chapter, we highlight some of Judith Butler’s main pronouncements about the university and offer some ways to think differently about philosophy of higher education and academic activism. We consider three ways in which the idea of a university of critique intertwined with notions of non-mastery and ‘error-living’ education might be possibl...
Jonsson, Martina
This thesis focuses on the possibilities of precarity as a perspective in the field of literary studies in order to analyse how insecurity is portrayed in literature. Sweden has a great tradition of proletarian literature, but researchers in the neoliberal era find it problematic to understand the emancipating aspects of the new proletarian literat...
Abellón, Milton
This work proves that, after Subjects of Desire, Judith Butler elaborates a post-Hegelian conception of recognition that consists of a social mediation, based on the Hegelian idea of «System of customs», and a normative mediation, based on the Foucaultian notion of power. I argue that this conception implies two senses of «subject» (i. A historical...
Beckman, Amanda
This essay seeks to understand Hannah Arendt’s notion of the political as an “in-between.” The in-between appears to be the intersubjectivity and relations of interaction in a public sphere, which Arendt suggests as a way of understanding the political as an end in itself. Judith Butler has distinguished Arendt’s notion of the political as essentia...
Torpe, Martin
The perception of how sexed bodies should behave and look has shifted throughout history and today we see a rise in discussions about bodily autonomy and the opportunity for diverse bodies to co-exist and flourish in modern society. Human rights activists and organisations led by people born with intersexual variations of sex characteristics (IVSC)...
Oliveira, Kris Herik de
Resumo: A teoria queer é apresentada neste artigo como um conjunto de encontros entre pensamentos em constante reinvenção. Derivam desses diálogos tessituras de conceitos e operações analíticas com disposição política, cujas forças residem em suas habilidades de afrouxar ou até mesmo desatar os nós de verdades cis-heterocentradas, especialmente, no...
Serck, Ylva
This paper examines the Church of Sweden’s changing approach to same-sex marriage from a queer theoretical and queer theological perspective. A discourse analytical method examines the previous discourse and how it has come to change over time. The analysis takes place among the statements that priests, bishops, and other theologians have expressed...
Ventura, Antoine
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