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  1. “Splendid Failures”: Inclination, Slow Regicide, and Performative Critique.Luke Edmeads - 2024 - Res Pública. Revista de Historia de Las Ideas Políticas 27 (1):51-56.
    This paper focuses on Honig’s critical reworking of the concept of inclination and her concept of “slow regicide”. With “slow regicide” Honig describes a performative critique of the violence of the patriarchal order. However, what Honig underestimates, I argue, is that this intervention must itself be non-violent if it is not to reinstate patriarchal violence. My suggestion is that paying closer attention to the performativity of inclination shows how “slow regicide” enables a non-violent refusal in which the normativity of patriarchy (...)
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  • “Failing splendidly” and the price of success: Feminist struggle between revolution and reformation.Viktoria Huegel - 2024 - Res Pública. Revista de Historia de Las Ideas Políticas 27 (1):57-62.
    With Euripides’s Bacchae Honig, in A Feminist Theory of Refusal (2021), chooses a story that easily can be read as an “errant path”: the story of a group of “honey-mad” women who, driven by a Dionysian force, slaughter their own kin and are eventually put back into place by fatherly reprimand. Against that, Honig retells the story of the women of Cithaeron as what W.E.B. Du Bois called a “splendid failure” - “a possibility first nurtured outside the city is extinguished, (...)
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  • Return to the City to Claim It: Temporalities and Locations of Feminist Refusal.Catherine Koekoek - 2024 - Res Pública. Revista de Historia de Las Ideas Políticas 27 (1):23-29.
    One of the main contributions of A Feminist Theory of Refusal is its connection of everyday action and prefigurative practices with an explicit commitment to structural change. But how such change happens, and what kind of relations it implies between ‘the city’ (as the existing political community) and feminist heterotopias of refusal, remains unclear. Reading Honig’s work as a prefigurative theory, I argue that it links moments of doing-otherwise with moments of institutional politics, sparking questions about the conditions of a (...)
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