Fantasy and Life on the Sexual Margins – Judith Butler’s Engagement with Fantasy in the Political Field and the Process of Becoming Human

Olu Jenzen

Fantasy and Life on the Sexual Margins – Judith Butler’s Engagement with Fantasy in the Political Field and the Process of Becoming Human

Olu Jenzen

University of Brighton

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This paper explores the function of fantasy in the work of Judith Butler and, more specifically, fantasy in relation to her thinking on identity, the category of the human, and kinship with the view to situate Butler’s encouragement of resignification as a means of instituting political change.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	’There Is No Politics without Fantasy’: Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Studies in Law
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2006
Event	’There Is No Politics without Fantasy’: Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Studies in Law - Keele University, UK Duration: 19 Apr 2006 → …

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Conference	’There Is No Politics without Fantasy’: Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Studies in Law
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Judith Butler
fantasy
political change
political agency
identity
the category of the human
kinship
ontological intelligibility
dissident sexuality
gender
social justice

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’There Is No Politics without Fantasy’: Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Studies in Law. 2006.

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