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Touching semi-public intimacies (otherwise)

Touching semi-public intimacies (otherwise)

 

Athena Athanasiou

 

Reflections on the edited volume Anti-keimena sexualikotitas: Kritikes theories, diepistimonikes proseggiseis [Sexuality’s Object(ion)s: Critical Theories, Interdisciplinary Readings]

Volume edited by: Eirini Avramopoulou and Pako Chalkidis
Translated by: Ouranos Tsiakalos
Published by: Topos, 2022

Athena Athanasiou

Athena Athanasiou is a professor of social anthropology and gender theory at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece). She has published on memory, mourning, performativity, feminist/queer politics, contemporary critical theory, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial critique. Among her publications are the books: Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (with Judith Butler, Polity, 2013); Crisis as a ‘State of Exception’ (in Greek, Savvalas, 2012); Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (in Greek, Ekkremes, 2007).