On Butler’s Theory of Agency

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures 6
4. Introduction 9
5. Performativity
6. On Butler’s Theory of Agency 21
7. The Psychic Life of Horror 31
8. Beyond Gender(s) 43
9. Speech
10. The Performative Edge of Non-Politicians 53
11. Talking Back as an Accented Speaker? 65
12. What’s in a Name? 77
13. Precarity
14. Rethinking Counseling from a Relational Perspective 91
15. Bridging Conversations 103
16. Dancing the Image 113
17. Santiago Sierra’s Workers Who Cannot Be Paid 127
18. Assembly
19. Rethinking Radical Democracy with Butler 141
20. Strategies of (Self-)Empowerment 155
21. Bodies That Still Matter 177
22. About the Contributors 195
23. Index 199