Politics Of Desire Research Articles

The desire to be desired: magic spells, agency, and the politics of desire among the Petalangan people in Indonesia

The Petalangan people in Indonesia practice beauty and love spells to evoke others’ desire. This article explores (1) the linguistic features and devices that are available for Petalangans to represent and recognize specific attributes of desires and (2) the metalinguistic dimensions of the language practice. The analysis demonstrates that Petalangan notions of desire are not necessarily associated with sexuality, but rather with the differences in agency and power between subjects and objects of desire. I discuss how a performer of the spells acquires agency by denying one’s own power and intentions, thus critiquing the conventional Western ideas of agency that emphasize individual will and intentions.

The Politics of desire and disdain: Croatian identity between "Home" and "Homeland"

The collapse of communism in the former Yugoslavia has sparked an avalanche of personal and political questions for Croatians everywhere on the meaning of their history, traditions, and identity. This article analyzes the mutually constitutive relationships of diaspora Croatians and the focus of their desire: a free Croatia whose citizens participate in the "production" or "recovery" of the historic Croatian state. But, rather than inspiring unity, independence has created the conditions for the emergence and exacerbation of often fraught or equivocal relationships within and between these groups. The Croatian example challenges the inclination to juxtapose diaspora and homeland contexts and points to the need to investigate the struggles of their subjects to define their often tenuous yet increasingly intimate relationships within, across, and between borders. [Croatian independence, politics of desire and disdain, diaspora, identity, homeland]

The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV by Micaela Janan (review)

The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV by Micaela Janan (review)

The Politics of Desire in the Writings of Ahdaf Soueif

The Politics of Desire in the Writings of Ahdaf Soueif

The Politics of Desire in the Writings of Ahdaf Soueif

This review of the works of novelist Ahdaf Soueif explores the major aesthetic and political themes of her novels and short stories. Soueif's honesty in exploring questions of sexual desire, intercultural dialogue, and the politics of language are further examined in the accompanying interview.

Desiring security/securing desire: (Re)re‐thinking alterity in security discourse

This essay rearticulates historical and contemporary security discourse as a politics of desire bound to a masculinist and racialized notion of Selfhood. The Persian Gulf War and the Canada/Spain Turbot War are presented as case studies which typify how the securing of desire through warfare proceeds from an idea of the desirous rival a Other. The essay counters Guardian and Lananian narratives of a desire which emanates from a sense of lack, and leads to violence, with Levinas's understanding of desire as central to, rather than disruptive of, an ethical relation with alterity.

Who's Afraid of John Saul? Urban Culture and the Politics of Desire in Late Victorian London

Who's Afraid of John Saul? Urban Culture and the Politics of Desire in Late Victorian London

The Parable of Matthew: Identity Politics, Politics of Desire, and the Politics of Performance

Matthew Shepard's murder in October 1998 provides an opportunity to examine and reconsider identity politics as they play out around Matthew's body. After a sustained critique of identity politics, the author proposes, in their stead, a politics of performance, which offers a constructive alternative to current political agendas by allowing the simultaneous preservation and erasure of difference.

Couples, sex and power: the politics of desire

Psychological perspectives on relationships power bases and the social position of women interpersonal strategies of influence the role of ideological power in relationships discourses on sexuality clinical case studies - sexual and relationship problems implications for therapy with couples.

Freedom and the Politics of Desire

Freedom and the Politics of Desire

Book reviews and notices : PHILIP GOODCHILD, Deleuze and Guattari: An introduction to the politics of desire (Theory, culture and society series). London: Sage Publications, 1996. ix + 226 pp. Notes, refs., gloss., index. £37.50 (hardback)/£12.95 (paperback)

Book reviews and notices : PHILIP GOODCHILD, Deleuze and Guattari: An introduction to the politics of desire (Theory, culture and society series). London: Sage Publications, 1996. ix + 226 pp. Notes, refs., gloss., index. £37.50 (hardback)/£12.95 (paperback)

Sexual Identity and Sexual JusticeSexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire.Morris B. Kaplan

Previous articleNext article No AccessReview EssaysSexual Identity and Sexual Justice Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire. Morris B. Kaplan Jerome NeuJerome Neu Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Ethics Volume 108, Number 3Apr., 1998 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/233828 Views: 28Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1998 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Devora Shapiro Should Pregnancy Be Considered a (Temporary) Disability?, IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 11, no.11 (Feb 2018): 91–105.https://doi.org/10.3138/ijfab.11.1.91

Book Reviews

Rosemary Hennessy, Materialist Feminism and the Politics of DiscourseRichard J. Bernstein, Hannah Arendt and the Jewish QuestionDavid Ames Curtis (ed), The Castoriadis ReaderDavid Ames Curtis (ed), World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis and the ImaginationMorris Kaplan, Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire

Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire.

Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire.

The politics of desire*

To produce a conceptually coherent overview of the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is a daunting task, especially if the book is designed as an introduction for the uninitiated...

The Philippine temptation: dialectics of Philippines-U.S. literary relations

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Civilize 'em with a Krag: Errand to the Boondocks 2. Discourse of Hegemony, Projects of Critique and Resistance 3. Masks of the Filipino in the New 4. Overseas Writing: Toward a Political Economy of the Diasporic Imagination 5. Violence of Exile, Politics of Desire: Prologue to Carlos Bulosan 6. Articulating a Third World Modernism: The Case of Jose Garcia Villa 7. Allegories of the Nation in the Postmodern World Afterword Notes Works Cited Index

Eros, Ethics, Identity: Royalist Feminism and the Politics of Desire in Aphra Behn's Love Letters

In Love Letters Betw?een a Nobleman and His Sister (1684-87), Aphra Behn combines a story of sexual intrigue with one of political rebellion in ways that suggest that each elucidates the other. Just as Philander employs the conventions of Restoration amorous discourse to create a persona capable of seducing Sylvia, his sisterin-law, so Sylvia-once compromised and betrayed-induces the naive and trusting Octavio to squander his chances of worldly happiness in vain pursuit of the woman her artistry generates. Both Sylvia and Octavio construct new identities for themselves through resistance to a traditional, received definition of the self, one characterized by placement within a matrix of social, political, and familial obligations. The story of rebellion against this conception of selfhood in private life is embedded in a story of rebellion against it in public life: Love Letters is, among much else, a roman a clef in which Philander is meant to be recognized as Lord Grey of Werke, a supporter of the Duke of Monmouth implicated in the Rye House Plot, while Sylvia is meant to be recognized as Lady Henrietta Berkeley, Lord Grey's sister-in-law and lover. Begun shortly after the Tory offensive against the Popish Plot and completed after the defeat of Monmouth, Love Letters starts out in Volume 1 (1684) as an epistolary novel describing Sylvia's/

James Joyce and the politics of desire

James Joyce and the politics of desire

The Politics of Desire in Delany's Triton and The Tides of Lust

The Politics of Desire in Delany's Triton and The Tides of Lust

The Politics of Desire in Julia Kristeva

The Politics of Desire in Julia Kristeva