Judith Butler's Istanbul Lecture: ‘Freedom of Assembly, or Who are the People?’ September, 2013

Judith Butler's Istanbul Lecture: ‘Freedom of Assembly, or Who are the People?’ September, 2013 from Columbia Global Centers on Vimeo.

Watch Professor Judith Butler’s lecture, ‘Freedom of Assembly, or Who are the People?’ held on September 15, 2013 in Istanbul at Boğaziçi University. Judith Butler’s lecture was a collaboration of Columbia Global Centers | Turkey, the 13th Istanbul Biennial and Boğaziçi University. Prof. Butler was based at the Center from September 16-19, co-directing a workshop with Prof. Zeynep Gambetti as part of Columbia’s Women Creating Change initiative on ‘Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance: Feminism and Social Change’. Learn more about Women Creating Change through this link: socialdifference.columbia.edu/projects/women-creating-change

Saul Newman and John Lechte - Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights Statelessness, Images, Violence @ Edinburgh University Press, June 2013

Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights Statelessness, Images, Violence 

@ Edinburgh University Press, June 2013

Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics and condemned 

to 'bare life'?

Human rights are in crisis today. Everywhere one looks, there is violence, deprivation, and oppression, which human rights norms seem powerless to prevent. This book investigates the roots of the current crisis through the thought of Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben. Human rights theory and practice must come to grips with key problems identified by Agamben – the violence of the sovereign state of exception and the reduction of humanity to ‘bare’ life. Any renewal of human rights today must involve breaking decisively with the traditional coordinates of Western political thought and instead affirm a new understanding of life and political action.

John Lechte is Professor at the Macquarie University 

Saul Newman is Professor at the Goldsmiths, University of London.

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