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Politics Improper: Iris Marion Young, Hannah Arendt, and the Power of Performativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Jane Monica Drexler
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Abstract

This essay explores the value of oppositional, performative political action in the context of oppression, domination, and exclusionary political spheres. Rather than adopting Iris Marion Young's approach, Drexler turns to Hannah Arendt's theories of political action in order to emphasize the capacity of political action as action to intervene in and disrupt the constricting, politically devitalizing, necrophilic normalizations of proceduralism and routine, and thus to reorient the importance of contestatory action as enabling and enacting creativity, spontaneity, and resistance.

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Radical Interventions
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Hypatia , Volume 22 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Democratic Theory , Fall 2007 , pp. 1 - 15
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Copyright © 2007 by Hypatia, Inc.

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