Table of Contents

Performativity and Belonging - Vikki Bell
An Introduction
Revisiting Bodies and Pleasures - Judith Butler
Historical Memory, Global Movements and Violence - Vikki Bell
Paul Gilroy and Arjun Appadurai in Conversation
Re-Membering Places and the Performance of Belonging(s) - Anne-Marie Fortier
Ethnic Absolutism and the Authoritarian Spirit - Chetan Bhatt
′She′ll Wake Up One of These Days and Find She′s Turned Into a Nigger′ - Sara Ahmed
Passing through Hybridity
Classing Queer - Mariam Fraser
Politics in Competition
Mimesis as Cultural Survival - Vikki Bell
Judith Butler and Anti-Semitism
On Speech, Race and Melancholia - Vikki Bell
An Interview with Judith Butler
Subject, Psyche and Agency - Lois McNay
The Work of Judith Butler
Performativity, Parody, Politics - Moya Lloyd
Beyond Food/Sex - Elspeth Probyn
Eating and an Ethics of Eating
Playing it Again - Jan Campbell and Janet Harbord
Citation, Reiteration or Cicularity?

About the Author

Vikki Bell lectures in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, university of London.