Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. She is co-author, with Judith Butler, of Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2013). She is the author of Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (Athens, 2007) and Crisis as a State of Exception: Critiques and Resistances (Athens, 2012). She is editor of Feminist Theory and Cultural Critique (Athens, 2006), Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and 'the Greeks' (SUNY Press, 2010) and Biosocialities: Perspectives on Medical Anthropology (Athens, 2011).

Acknowledgements IntroductionUndoing grief as "feminine language"
Biopolitics, sovereignty, nationalism
Researching the affective life of a political subjectivity
Towards non-sovereign agonism1. Mourning Otherwise
Feminism at war
Emergencies and emergences
Activism of loss, loss of activism
Counter-memory, living on
Critical agency and political catachresis
"Anamnestic solidarity" and "wounded attachments"

2. Gendered Intimacies of the Nationalist Archive Restaging the archive
Proper memories, proper names, proper victims
Claiming the dead body of the national hero
Desiring the nation, worshipping the leader
Making "women" appropriate to the nation: fairies, witches, and mothers
Demographic anxieties, gendered epidemics
Singing the nineties
Remains and spectres3. Spectral Spaces of Counter-MemoryGhostly emergences
In the square and beyond
Every Wednesday, at half past three in the afternoon
"Serbian Bastille" between national imaginary and performative displacements
Agonism "at a standstill"
Stasis as dissensus
Public mourning and its (gendered) discontents
(Not) Taking space as "woman"4. Political Languages of Responsiveness and the Disquiet of Silence
Inaudible voices, disqualified discourses
Aporias of (un)speakability
Speaking for others? Relational structures of address
Activism as responsiveness
The labor of witnessing
Vocal registers of the political
Political performativity between subjugation and insurrection
Critical practices of political response-ability
Silence as an event in languageEpilogue: Agonistic re-membering of the political Notes
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