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8. Precarity and Judith Butler’s Ambivalent Social Bond. What Is the Value of Ettingerian Transconnectedness?

Author : Nóirín MacNamara

Published in: Precarity and International Relations

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter explores precarity as that which is produced and differentially distributed via the logics of differentiation used to structure subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Bracha Ettinger, and cognisant of the need to consider that which Sara Ahmed terms ‘staying with critique in its lengthy duration’ in relation to whiteness, an ambivalent-(yet transconnected) approach to thinking social ties is considered. The ‘body reasoning’ (Oyĕwùmí) which structures Western thought is expanded beyond one type of body in psychoanalytic thought. I propose that an ambivalent-(yet transconnected) view of social ties demands a politics that owns the production of its hierarchies, examines that which is muted or repressed, and interrogates the spheres of subjectivity enabled through different types of body/trauma/phantasy/desire complexity.

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Title: Precarity and Judith Butler’s Ambivalent Social Bond. What Is the Value of Ettingerian Transconnectedness?
Author: Nóirín MacNamara
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Precarity and International Relations
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-51095-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-51096-1

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51096-1_8