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  1. Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly.Judith Butler - 2015 - Harvard University Press.
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  • Thinking the Commons through Ostrom and Butler: Boundedness and Vulnerability.Irina Velicu & Gustavo García-López - 2018 - Theory, Culture and Society 35 (6):55-73.
    In this paper we propose an ‘undisciplinary’ meeting between Elinor Ostrom and Judith Butler, with the intent to broaden the theory of the commons by discussing it as a relational politics. We use Butler’s theory of power to problematize existing visions of commons, shifting from Ostrom’s ‘bounded rationality’ to Butler’s concepts of ‘bounded selves’ and mutual vulnerability. To be bounded – as opposed to autonomous being – implies being an (ambiguous) effect of socio-power relations and norms that are often beyond (...)
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  • Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.Judith Butler & Suzanne Pharr - 1990 - Hypatia 5 (3):171-175.
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  • Declining Performativity.Vikki Bell - 2012 - Theory, Culture and Society 29 (2):107-123.
    This article explores what might happen to the concept of performativity within arguments that are understood as ‘topological’. It argues that we might ‘decline’ performativity, which is to say, elaborate the concerns that are expressed in the concept, but inclining it more boldly towards the complexities of a world whose elements are always in process of constitution, of reiterative enfolding. Taking a cue from Isabelle Stengers’ recent work in which she posits the notion of ecologies of practice, on the one (...)
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  • Revisiting Bodies and Pleasures.Judith Butler - 1999 - Theory, Culture and Society 16 (2):11-20.
    Foucault proposes at the end of the first volume of The History of Sexuality to shift the focus of sexual studies from sex-desire to bodies and pleasures. This article seeks to establish what he means by this shift, how he proposes it be made, and what the consequences are for thinking about sexuality together with `sex'. Foucault's shift involves a historiographical claim about the superability of the recent past, and can be read as an effort to relegate the concerns about (...)
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  • Ethical ambivalence.Judith Butler - 2000 - In Marjorie B. Garber, Beatrice Hanssen & Rebecca L. Walkowitz (eds.), The turn to ethics. New York: Routledge. pp. 15--28.
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  • Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation.Judith Butler - 2012 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (2):134-151.
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  • The ego and its own.Max Stirner - unknown
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  • Medicine as a Tactic of War: Palestinian Precarity.Marsha Rosengarten & Annie Pfingst - 2012 - Body and Society 18 (3-4):99-125.
    This photo-essay highlights the ways in which medicine features in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and uses it to reflect on the nature of ethical obligation set out by Judith Butler in her work on state-achieved precarity. Although medical infrastructure of even the most basic type is tragically lacking and in some areas shockingly absent in the OPT, it is the particular way in which medicine comes to be needed that we focus on. Leaving aside the rhetoric that has claimed (...)
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  • Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth Century France.Robert B. Pippin & Judith P. Butler - 1990 - Philosophical Review 99 (1):129.
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  • Playing it Again.Jan Campbell & Janet Harbord - 1999 - Theory, Culture and Society 16 (2):229-239.
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  • Reflections on the Contemporary Public Sphere: An Interview with Judith Butler.Martin Seeliger & Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky - 2022 - Theory, Culture and Society 39 (4):67-74.
    In this conversation, Berkeley-based philosopher Judith Butler offers insights into her understanding of the public sphere and its current transformations as a core dimension of political subjectivity. Beginning with her own understanding of Habermas’ classic, the interview centers around its connection to other classical texts (e.g. of Hannah Arendt) and timely political debates.
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  • Do Voices Matter? Vocality, Materiality, Gender Performativity.Annette Schlichter - 2011 - Body and Society 17 (1):31-52.
    While vocal acts, such as interpellation and speech acts, constitute a network of theoretical nodes in Butler’s writings, her theory of gender performativity neglects to theorize the mediation of such acts through the voice and its technologies. In a close reading of Butler’s influential texts, the paper examines the ramifications of a notion of gender performativity that ignores the performative aspects of the voice, asking what it means to think a body without a voice. What notions of materiality and subjectivity (...)
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  • The Politics of Postsecular Feminism.Rosa Vasilaki - 2016 - Theory, Culture and Society 33 (2):103-123.
    This article critically engages the postsecular turn in feminism by focusing on recent contributions by Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, and Saba Mahmood, whose stance can be seen as symptomatic of the postsecular moment. The article demonstrates that their conjoint theoretical moves have unintended yet important implications, which are left unexamined. Whilst recognizing the importance of the effort of postsecular feminism to think of agency beyond the limitations of Eurocentric theorizing, the article argues that it remains unclear whether the particular conceptualization (...)
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  • Handmaids' Tales of Washington Power: The Abject and the Real Kennedy White House.Christine Sylvester - 1998 - Body and Society 4 (3):39-66.
    A considerable amount of academic attention has been paid to John Kennedy and to his group of advisors during the Cuban missile crisis. Next to no attention has been accorded other bodies of the Kennedy White House that had daily access to a President's most private moments and possibly to his important deliberations. Drawing on Richard Reeves' account of President Kennedy: Profile of Power, I revisit the early 1960s looking for bodies of power that are culturally sexed female by others (...)
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  • Performativity, Parody, Politics.Moya Lloyd - 1999 - Theory, Culture and Society 16 (2):195-213.
    The aim of this article is to examine both the work of Judith Butler on gender performativity and examples of how Butler's writings have been appropriated by certain other writers. I explore three areas in particular: the relation between performance and performativity in the work of Butler and her `adherents'; the developmental changes in Butler's argument between Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter; and the question of the effectiveness of the politics of parody. I argue that it is the ambiguities (...)
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  • 'Sex' and the Problem of the Body: Reconstructing Judith Butler's Theory of Sex/gender.Samuel A. Chambers - 2007 - Body and Society 13 (4):47-75.
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  • New Scenes of Vulnerability, Agency and Plurality.Vikki Bell - 2010 - Theory, Culture and Society 27 (1):130-152.
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  • Embodied Political Performativity in Excitable Speech.Molly Anne Rothenberg - 2006 - Theory, Culture and Society 23 (4):71-93.
    The critical commentary on Judith Butler’s Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative focuses primarily on her use of speech-act theory for political purposes. Admitting the limitations of Austin’s work, she introduces an extended supplement to her linguistically based performative theory in Excitable Speech: a discussion of embodied subjectivity presented in ways never before instanced in her work. That is, in this text, she continues to use speech-act theory articulated with Derridean iterability (her usual practice) to ground performativity, while presenting (...)
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  • Mimesis as Cultural Survival.Vikki Bell - 1999 - Theory, Culture and Society 16 (2):133-161.
    Focusing on Judith Butler's highly influential work on gender, this article draws attention to a certain feminist inheritance of an emphasis on mimesis and imitation that resonates with the ways in which theoreticians responded to the calamitous events of essentialist politics and versions of belonging that were central to the political vision of Hitler's National Socialism and to the events of the Second World War. The intention is to point to this trajectory, to give Butler's work a genealogy that traces (...)
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  • Subject, Psyche and Agency.Lois McNay - 1999 - Theory, Culture and Society 16 (2):175-193.
    This article considers two themes in Butler's work: the dialectic of subject formation - that the autonomous subject is instituted through constraint - and the relation between the psyche and the social. With regard to the former, the introduction of a notion of historicity into a conception of the symbolic yields a concept of agency. Nonetheless, this concept of agency still lacks social specificity. By reconfiguring the psyche as an effect of the interiorization of social norms, Butler introduces the destabilizing (...)
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  • Improvisation within a Scene of Constraint: Cindy Sherman's Serial Self-Portraiture.Michelle Meagher - 2007 - Body and Society 13 (4):1-19.
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  • Bracha’s Eurydice.Judith Butler - 2004 - Theory, Culture and Society 21 (1):95-100.
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  • Classing Queer.Mariam Fraser - 1999 - Theory, Culture and Society 16 (2):107-131.
    This article considers the grounds on which distinctions are drawn between the identities of gender, sexuality, `race' and class and explores the implications of these distinctions in relation to different kinds of identity politics and, in particular, to the politics implied by Judith Butler's theory of performativity. I argue that what is often taken to be the key site of much queer theory and activism - that is, the reappropriation of signifiers of difference - is problematic in the light of (...)
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  • Performative Knowledge.Vikki Bell - 2006 - Theory, Culture and Society 23 (2-3):214-217.
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  • Resisting with Authority: Historical Specificity, Agency and the Performative Self.Terry Lovell - 2003 - Theory, Culture and Society 20 (1):1-17.
    How is it possible for human subjects who are socially constructed to engage in effective and authoritative acts of resistance to the social norms and institutions within which they were formed? Judith Butler, in her engagement with the work of Pierre Bourdieu, locates this possibility in the nature of `speech acts', and in resistance to social norms emanating from the abjected margins of social life. She criticizes Bourdieu for undermining the promise of agency contained in habitus by reducing it to (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Hegel.Charles Taylor - 1975 - Philosophy 51 (197):362-364.
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  • Feminism and the Matter of Bodies: From de Beauvoir to Butler.Alex Hughes & Anne Witz - 1997 - Body and Society 3 (1):47-60.
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  • Mutual aid; a factor of evolution.Peter Kropotkin - unknown
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  • (1 other version)Book Review: Who Sings the Nation-State?: Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak Calcutta, New York, Oxford: Seagull Books, 2007, pp. 121. [REVIEW]Vikki Bell - 2009 - Theory, Culture and Society 26 (5):151-156.
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  • Citation and Subjectivity: Towards a Return of the Embodied Will.Roy Boyne - 1999 - Body and Society 5 (2-3):209-225.
    Freudian and phenomenological approaches to subjectivity allow the existence of a residual core self. Recent work within cultural analysis and sociology has rejected such a residue. The writings of Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu are two cases in point. In the former case, this refusal functions to provide the possibility of reconstructable gendered identities. For Bourdieu, it confirms the primacy of the social. In both cases, the refusal is part of a case made against psychological essentialism. However, the campaign against (...)
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  • Having it Both Ways.Lois McNay - 2003 - Theory, Culture and Society 20 (6):1-20.
    As an alternative to post-structural accounts of ‘performative’ agency (e.g. Judith Butler), Habermasian feminists (Seyla Benhabib and Maria Pia Lara) propose the idea of the narrative self. The concept of narrative is seen as a way of bridging the gap between the formalism of Habermas’s idea of communicative ethics and the dispersion that arises from the post-structural critique of the subject. The idea of the narrative self undoubtedly yields an active and creative account of agency. However, I argue that the (...)
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  • Unidentified Pleasures: Gender Identity and its Failure.Myra J. Hird - 2002 - Body and Society 8 (2):39-54.
    Feminist philosophical analyses have recently returned to psychoanalytic theory's insights into the origins of gender. Freud's exegesis on social development holds gender to be a matter of identification, as opposed to an ontological condition of being. This article considers Judith Butler's use of psychoanalytic theory to argue that homosexuality both precedes and conditions the formation of heterosexual gender identification. While convinced the processes of identification do involve loss and are grieved in some way, I am less convinced that the precedence (...)
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  • (1 other version)Book Review: Who Sings the Nation-State? [REVIEW]Vikki Bell - 2009 - Theory, Culture and Society 26 (5):151-156.
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