ATHENA ATHANASIOU

Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in Athens. Among her publications are the books: Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (Athens: Ekkremes, 2007); Crisis as a ‘State of Exception’ (Athens: Savalas, 2012); and (with Judith Butler) Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2013). She has edited and co-edited the collective volumes: Feminist Theory and Cultural Critique (Athens: Nissos, 2006); Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and 'the Greeks' (State University of New York Press, 2010); Biosocialities (Athens: Nissos, 2011); Deconstructing the Empire: Theory and Politics of Postcolonial Studies (Athens: Nissos, 2016). She has been a fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, at Brown University, and at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, at Columbia University. She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the academic journals Critical Times, Feminist Formations, and Philosophy and Society.

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