Harker, C. (2014) 'The ambiguities of cohabitation.', Area., 46 (4). pp. 355-356.
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Cohabitation, Judith Butler, Palestine. |
| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (373Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/area.12138_6 |
| Publisher statement: | This is the accepted version of the following article: Harker, C. (2014), The ambiguities of cohabitation. Area, 46 (4): 355–356, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/area.12138_6. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving. |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 20 November 2014 |
| Date of first online publication: | December 2014 |
| Date first made open access: | 17 November 2016 |
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