A Mingling of Ghosts: A Response to Daniel Butler's "Racialized Bodies and the Violence of the Setting". Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Swartz, Sally
• Is Part Of: Studies in gender and sexuality. Volume 20:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 165
• Page End: 170
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Sex (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Sexology -- Periodicals; Gender identity -- Periodicals; 155.305
• DOI: 10.1080/15240657.2019.1641941
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1524-0657

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this brief commentary on Butler's description of ruptures and violences of setting, so dense with possibilities for debate and elaboration, four central themes are explored: a rumination on the word "visceral, " suggesting that nonbelonging is never a ghostly experience; "plucking up a protest, " and the paradox of needing for a place of belonging before protest is possible; the bewildering multiplicity of ghosts in protest movements; and how we think of belonging in a clinical setting.