Dispossession Summary

Dispossession is and unconventional book written in the dialogic form. This book aims at addressing the topic of dispossession from multiple angles. Judith Buttler and Athena Athanasius, dealing with the concept of dispossession, spotlight the limits of self-sufficiency and in this way make the reader grasp the concept dispossession and its link with performativity, relationality, bio-politics and resistance. Dispossession takes place globally in various forms i.e. forced migration, foreclosures and unfair distribution of meath. People, by seen and unforeseen forces, are deprived of their security and possession. In other words, they are exposed rather moved to alterity. The authors bring out dispossession in term of deprivation of people’s
In other words, people are made a property by the colonizers. Athena’s statement about Capitalism as the agency causing economic insecurity and precaritization is of great significance as it foregrounds economic dispossession. People are injected with an unsound sense of future by political economic configuration. Economic precarity, as a political discourse features temporary, insecure and low-paid jobs. Even, to say, the human life is turned into capital under bio-political governmentality. In the chapter ‘Sexual dispossession’, the authors’ analysis of the norms and human rights discourse is very attention seeking. Athena, in term of subjectivation, writes, “… the desire and law are inextricably intertwined. In this performative intertwinement, gender and sexual categories, identities … are reinvented in unforeseen ways …”(45). They uncover the prescriptive role of the human right discourse regarding the establishment of an ideal for the expression of sexuality. It, on the other hand, suggests that, from authorial point of view, there should be no prescribed ideal in this regard. This, in my opinion, does not correspond to the requirements of a