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Agency and Precarious Life: Reflections on the relevance of Butler’s scholarship to feminist activism in the Latin American context

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Vanessa Rubilar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gretty Images Chilean women protesting, while they are wearing green scarves in women’s rights mobilisations spread in Latin America and elsewhere. These scarves are a resistance symbol. Carla Quiroz   In May 2022, the Gender Politics Reading Group launched its Deep Dive series, led by Dr Rebecca Hewer, and supported by …

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Reflections on Reading for Reading’s Sake and the Judith Butler ‘Deep Dive’

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Dr Rebecca Hewer   Reading is an important task for academics. And yet, we rarely discuss it or plan for it as such. Reading is subsumed into other tasks: we read to teach, to write; rarely do we read to read. When we subsume reading into other tasks we necessarily think of it as instrumental …

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