Precarious Intensities: Gendered Bodies in the Streets and Squares of Greece

Abstract

This essay is concerned with the gendered body politics emerging in the antiausterity protest sphere forming in the context of an ongoing debt crisis in Greece. How do bodies, subjects, and collectivities come into play when they protest modalities of power that foreclose the conditions that make it possible to contest them? How does protesting the neoliberal regime of knowledge and power encompass processes of gendered, raced, and classed subjectivation? How might it also unsettle the gender, race, and class norms that regulate who is admissible to established spaces of intelligibility (including the space of political subjectivity and public protest)? How is the possibility for plural gendered protest activated in a regime of power that depletes certain livelihoods and subsumes all political discourse under the unmarked universal of economic management?