The ambiguities of cohabitation

Harker, C

doi:10.1111/area.12138_6

The ambiguities of cohabitation

Harker, C

Authors

C Harker

Abstract

In this paper I examine Judith Butler's ethic of cohabitation as a means of thinking intimacy-geopolitics. Butler's ethic of cohabitation begins with an inability to choose in advance who we inhabit the earth with. Conceptually this idea is linked with the precariousness of life: a subject's life is always in the hands of others, both known and unknown. As such, cohabitation is always an intimate affair that is at the same time global. However, I argue cohabitation as ethical relation fails to map neatly onto cohabitation as spatial practice, and thus it is an ambivalent resource.

Citation

Harker, C. (2014). The ambiguities of cohabitation. Area, 46(4), 355-356. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12138_6

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Dec 1, 2014
Deposit Date	Nov 20, 2014
Publicly Available Date	Nov 17, 2016
Journal	Area
Print ISSN	0004-0894
Electronic ISSN	1475-4762
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	46
Issue	4
Pages	355-356
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12138_6
Keywords	Cohabitation, Judith Butler, Palestine.

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