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Intensità precarie:corpi sessuati nelle strade e nellepiazze della Grecia

Athanasiou, A.
DEP, 27(1), pp. 174-181, 2015

This essay is concerned with the gendered body politics emerging in theantiausterity protest sphere forming in Greece in the context of an ongoing debt crisis. How do bodies, subjects, and collectivities come into play when protesting modalities of power thatforeclose the conditions that make it possible to contest them? How does protesting theneoliberal regime of knowledge and power encompass processes of gendered, raced, andclassed subjectivation? How might it also unsettle the gender, race, and class norms thatregulate who is admissible to established spaces of intelligibility (including the space of political subjectivity and public protest)? How is the possibility for plural gendered protestactivated in a regime of power that depletes certain livelihoods and subsumes all politicaldiscourse under the unmarked universal of economic management?