Introduction to judith butler, module on performativity. Politics, the book demonstrates, thus appears at the turning point, in the place where the efficiency of economics is negotiated and where the need to forward it, reshape it, and complement. It draws on multiple perspectives of innovation, knowledge and creativity from economics, geography, history, management, political science and sociology. The book ends with an extended chapter in which michel callon, the ideas main formulator, reflects upon the debate and asks what it means to say economics is performative. For example, institutional theory and political economy both emphasize the states role in constructing markets. Laure cabantous, cass business school, city university london jeanpascal gond, cass business school, city university london alex wright, the open university business school deadline for submission of word long abstracts. Gender trouble summary and study guide supersummary. Performativity, misfires and politics michel callon 3. I recommend reading jl austins how to do things with. It offers a timely intervention within the field of critical human geography by exploring the performativity of political spaces and the spatiality of performative politics. Notwithstanding its laudable ambition to stimulate discussion about engagement between critical management studies researchers and practitioners, we are concerned that critical performativity theory is flawed as it misreads foundational performativity authors, such as austin and butler, in ways that nullify their political potential, and.
Performativity wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. The performativity of strategy, call for papers special. The concept has multiple applications in diverse fields such as anthropology, social and cultural geography, economics, gender studies social construction of gender, law, linguistics, performance studies, history, and philosophy. Institutional theory is a research tradition that traces its origins back to foundational articles that discussed how organizational founding and change were driven less by functional considerations and more by symbolic actions and external influences than the theory at the time assumed meyer and rowan, 1977. This special issue of the journal of cultural economy, out this july, explores how theoretical formulations of performativity came, rather late in the. Vernacular aesthetics in the later middle ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval french and english cultures. Cody campbell found the book to be an enjoyable read, and particularly liked the chemistry between the two authors, but worries that those looking for a more concrete analysis of dispossession and its relationship to performativity may walk away disappointed. Butlers agenda is that gender roles are assigned through the performance of socially sanctioned practices from the way we dress to the way we move all the way to the.
I now have news of a new book from judith that addresses these themes in more detail. This is the first book length, edited collection devoted explicitly to showcasing geographical scholarship on the spatial politics of performativity. A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by. Sep 19, 2017 in short, then, it was the ethnographic performations see mol 2002 of resource curse theory, what it was actually forming in the field, that led me to ideas of performativity as social studies of finance ssf scholars use them. The concept has multiple applications in diverse fields such as anthropology, social and cultural geography, economics, gender studies social construction of gender, law, linguistics, performance studies, and history.
Towards a relational ontology of management accounting by ed vosselman, explores accountings mediating role in bringing theoretical statements from economics into life. This collection of essays considers the extraliterary and extratextual methods by which vernacular forms and genres were obtained and. The performative in the political, judith butler teams up athena athanasiou to investigate the concept of dispossession and its connections with recognition, performativity, bio politics, protest, and relationality. Accountings mediating role in bringing theoretical statements from economics into life posted on october 23, 2014 by oleg komlik an interesting the performativity thesis and its critics. Leading feminist theorists, from around the globe, provide indepth explorations of a diverse array of subject areas, capturing a plurality of approaches. Callon 2007 with the last three posts being high mathematical economic theory, lets go 180 degrees and look at this recent essay the introduction of a book, actually by michel callon, one of the deans of actornetwork theory along with bruno latour, of course.
This project seeks to deepen the understanding of economic performativity the effects of economic theory and models on the economy by examining the history of financial markets and the relationship between economic and political forces. Callon labeled these processes of object and agencyformation the performativity of economics. Butler and bodies in alliance geographical imaginations. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. It thereby seeks to contribute to a leftwing cultural politics, based on the strategy of the marginal subversion of the reigning cultural. Politics, the book demonstrates, thus appears at the turning point, in the place where the efficiency of economics is negotiated and where the need to forward it, reshape it, and complement it emerges. This essay examines performativity as a framework for critically assessing gender performances in patriarchal workplace environments, including the institutional rules and norms that shape behaviors and interactions. Towards a relational ontology of management accounting by ed vosselman, explores accountings mediating role in. On the performativity of economics by donald mackenzie isbn. John bargh, the worlds leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a groundbreaking book, twenty years in the making, which gives us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every. Here are the results for politics, philosophy and economics.
Working from a poststructuralist, antifoundationalist perspective that draws on foucault, lacan, and derrida, butlers theory of performativity is based on the idea that identity and subjectivity is an ongoing process of becoming, rather than an ontological state of being, whereby becoming is a sequence of acts, that retroactively constitutes identity. A critique of judith butler dr geoff boucher judith butlers celebrated concept of performativity is designed to expose hegemonic conceptions of identity as fictions. Feminism and the subversion of identity is a seminal work in feminism and a foundational work in queer theory. It is therefore selfevident that only the political economy which. Vernacular aesthetics in the later middle ages politics. Oxford handbook of feminist theory oxford handbooks. This book provides new important tools for inquiring into that notion, called performativity. Focusing on the performativity of economics involves studying the hybridization between the political language of economics on the one hand, and the working of economic devices, processes and hard facts on the other. Towards an evolutionary taxonomy of economic systems article pdf available in schmollers jahrbuch 63.
This study guide is based on the 2006 routledge edition of butlers text. Performativity in finance, then, must be understood to be an event that not only witnesses economics influence the economy as its mechanisms are swept into economic worlds, but one that holds the potential to construct economic worlds in their totality so. Do economists make markets on the performativity of. Performativity, precariety, sexual policies, poststructuralism thought that i might take this opportunity to think again about gender performativity and to try to give an account of how i moved from a focus on performativity to a more general concern with precarity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal of cultural economy. Feminism and the subversion of identity 1990, and bodies that matter. According to butler, gender is a repeated performance. In defense of callons performativity of economics a. An overview, 2010, journal of cultural economy, 32, p. Traditional art history has, however, been wary of live arts interdisciplinarity and its tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk taking. In foucaults 1982 terms, economics forms certain kinds of objects through framing and subject positions calculative agencies.
Notes toward a performative theory of assembly by judith. Gender trouble judith butler judith butlers 1990 gender trouble was widely acclaimed as a groundbreaking book due to its revolutionary ideas regarding gender identity and the relations between gender and sex and the introduction of the notion of gender as performance or gender performativity. Butler is a difficult author to understand, particularly if you dont have a background in theories of performativity. An interesting the performativity thesis and its critics. Presenting the theme of performativity in a journal named the journal of cultural economy. Oct 18, 2011 the concept here is performativity in economics. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Performativity, politics, and the production of social space. Banking across boundaries should be read not just by economic geographers, political economists, or those concerned with the financial crisis, but by anyone who wants to understand key aspects of the global economy. The book s case studiesincluding financial derivatives markets, telecommunicationsfrequency auctions, and individual transferable quotas in fisheriesgive substance to the notion of the performativity of economics in an accessible, nontechnical way.
Dr jena a zelezny 2010 judith butlers work is widely known and sometimes only known, for the theory outlined in performative acts and gender constitution. The oxford handbook of feminist theory provides an overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts feminist theorists have developed to challenge established knowledge. This book argues that this possibility of failure, a perspec. This collection of essays considers the extraliterary and extratextual methods by which vernacular forms and genres were obtained and examines the roles that performance and orality. An essay in phenomenology and feminist theory judith butler follows up on her thought in publications such as gender trouble, critically queer and bodies that matter. The first political factor that can be a barrier to social media penetration to promote democracy and social justice is government instability, and more importantly the uncertainty of the laws enacted by the government. Butler, callon and the moment of theory paul du gay 4. Franck cochoy, martin giraudeau and liz mcfall performativity. The paper addresses the socalled performativity thesis that claims that economic continue reading. The top ten books to read about international economic history.
Jun 24, 2011 favourite politics, philosophy and economics books we asked for suggestions of your favourite nonfiction books. In this book, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues around the performativity of economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies. Butlers 1990, 1993 work on gender and performativity has been particularly influential in recent. Judith butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. This book scrutinizes the ways in which the economy is performed, in order to situate where precisely politics is located with regard to economic matters. In american amnesia, bestselling political scientists jacob s.
Notes toward a performative theory of assembly, due from harvard in november. An overview franck cochoy, martin giraudeau and liz mcfall. This unique companion provides a comprehensive overview and critical evaluation of existing conceptualizations and new developments in innovation research. Performativity butlers 1990, 1993 work on gender and performativity has been particularly influential in recent language and gender studies. Enacting dismal science is the new collection on performativity, edited by ivan boldyrev and my colleague at leicester, ekaterina svetlova. The book s title contains the word enacting, as the mechanism of enaction is considered a pivotal performative mechanism. Michel callons first career was not in economic sociology but in the sociology of science. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from womens and mens lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health. Thus, homo economicus is not an inaccurate description of human behavior, but a product of economic theory. The books case studies including financial derivatives markets. Butler expands her theory of performativity to include bodies in political action, gathered together for protest.
The book s insights and strong claims about the ways economics is entangled with the markets it studies should interestand provokeeconomic sociologists, economists, and. We bet notable macroeconomists, alan blinder and charles wyplosz, never heard of the performativity of economics when they stated that the main purpose of central bank talk is to help markets think like the central bank 2004, 7. An essay in phenomenology and feminist theory theatre journal 1988, gender trouble. A collection of essays on the politics of boundaries, this book addresses a broad range. Performativity, precarity and sexual politics judith. Politics, the book demonstrates, thus appears at the turning point, in the place where the. Performativity is a complex concept that can be thought of as a language which functions as a form of social action and has the effect of change. This book coincides with an increase in the programming of live art elements in many galleries and museums. What does it mean to say that economics is performative. Of the 9 theories they studied marginalism, blackscholes, etc. The economy is commonly described either as the apolitical realm of calculation or as the fully political one of domination.
Performativity and the innovationreplication dilemma. With contributions on behavioral economics experiments, naturalism in economics, game theory, incentives, description as a moral problem, hydraulic governability in postwar keynesianism, institutions, and much more. An overview franck cochoy, martin giraudeau and liz mcfall part 1. Presenting the theme of performativity in a journal named the journal of cultural economy makes the role performativity plays in the economy a logical place to start and the debt to. Elaborating hannah arendts notion of the political, rethinking its investment in the public to the detriment of the private and the consequent privileging of a political subject constituted by speech, judith butlers notes toward a performative theory of assembly turns to the corporeal materiality of resistant subjectivity, of the body. Institutional theory an overview sciencedirect topics. Performativity, politics, and the production of social. Favourite politics, philosophy and economics books books. Cochoy, franck, giraudeau, martin and mcfall, liz 2010 performativity, economics and politics. Most of her maternal grandmothers family perished in the holocaust. The communist manifesto by karl marx, freakonomics. Hayek, an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations by adam smith. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precaritythe destruction of the conditions of livabilityhas been a galvanizing force and theme in todays highly visible protests.
Judith butler was born on february 24, 1956, in cleveland, ohio, to a family of hungarianjewish and russianjewish descent. Here we get her views on nonviolence, social selfhood, ethical formation, and expanded meditations on gender and sexuality. This chapter discusses judith butlers gender trouble gt and its legacy in political theory. Judith butlers theory of performativity, introduced in her 1990 book gender trouble, has significantly shaped individual and collective understandings of gender.