Leticia Sabsay
Biographic Data
| ID | 470676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leticia Sabsay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leticia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabsay |
| SIGNATURE | SABSAY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5567-0464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The political aesthetics of cruelty: Contemporary authoritarian politics and the struggle between sovereignty and relationality
In a historical present marked by the ascendance of neo-authoritarianisms across the world, we bear witness to a renewed politics of hatred and violence and the heightening of the vulnerability of life. In this context, vulnerability has either been weaponised to justify violent forms of government or critically mobilised to stake a claim for justice, thereby becoming the object of political dispute. Against this backdrop, I explore this neo-auth…
Bodies as territories: Revisiting the Coloniality of Gender
In this article, I reconsider the coloniality of gender in light of Trans* anti-colonial contributions and feminist and women’s social movements’ mobilisation of the multidimensional concept of ‘territorio-cuerpo-tierra’ (territory-body-land) in contemporary Abya Yala. I ask what might be gained in centring the reconceptualisation of the relationship between gender and bodies offered by these activists and scholars within the theorisation of gend…
The Political Aesthetics of Vulnerability and the Feminist Revolt
Contemporary transnational times are characterized by renewed struggles over the meaning of democracy. In this postdemocratic moment, political and cultural practices and popular mobilizations and demands have exceeded, and ultimately questioned, some of representative democracy's core conventions, from the mass feminist demonstrations and strikes, to the rise of populist politics both in Europe and the Americas. Importantly, these struggles atte…
Beyond Populist Borders: Embodiment and the People in Laclau's Political Ontology
Taking as a point of departure Ernesto Laclau's proposition that populism exposes the logic of the political, I explore how articulation and embodiment work in On Populist Reason. I argue that Laclau's model of meaning making set limits to the understanding of politics that are primarily embodied, such as those involving popular mobilizations, but also nationalist investments in border making. Ultimately, I propose some complementary keys for bri…
As "zonas vermelhas" do espaço público: O caso de Buenos Aires e a regulação urbana do trabalho sexual
Em 1998 houve em Buenos Aires um acontecimento singular: com a sanção do Código de Convivência Urbana em março deste ano, após a autonomização da Cidade de Buenos Aires, o trabalho sexual foi despenalizado. Tal evento produziu uma intensa luta por direitos e pela definição da cidadania deste "novo" espaço urbano, dando lugar a uma polêmica que segue ainda vigente. A trajetória do polêmico artigo 71 do Código de Convivência (que logo se tornou o 8…
Imaginarios sexuales de la libertad: Performatividad, Cuerpos Y Fronteras
En un momento en que el sentido de la democracia se encuentra puesto en cuestión, de cara a la hegemonía neoliberal, en este artículo interrogo la política de la ciudadanía sexual, focalizando mi atención en la dimensión corporal de las luchas por la libertad y la justicia genérico-sexuales. Mientras que las fronteras, la racialización de los cuerpos y la regulación sexual han adquirido nuevos sentidos a la luz de este adverso momento político, n…
The Political Imaginary of Sexual Freedom: Subjectivity and Power in the New Sexual Democratic Turn
This book develops a performative and relational approach to gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the psychosocial dimension of sexual life, Sabsay challenges accepted ideas of increased emancipation, and the steady extension of rights, offering instead …
Vulnerability in Resistance
Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in Resistance articulate an understanding of the role of …
Dispossession: The performative in the political
Dispossession: The Performative in the Political, by Professors Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou, takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors. Their conversation centres on the conteste
Queering the Politics of Global Sexual Rights
To be ‘politically queer’ at the beginning of the 1990s indicated opposition to the policing of identity and heteronormativity, and adherence to a politics that transcended liberal‐legal claims. More recently, queer activism and scholarship have largely focused on contesting the emergence of homonormative forms of nationalism and institutionalized rights‐based LGBT politics. However, to define a political intervention as queer on the condition th…
Judith Butler en Disputa: Lecturas sobre la Performatividad
Beyond Butlerophilia or Butlerophobia, the essays gathered in this volume offer an in-depth reading of Judith Butler's work and it is from this careful analysis of her proposal that the book as a whole examines the political implications of the performative turn Butler poses. In this key, performativity is understood as part of a project that goes through all his work, and involves reflection on subjective formations and bodily life in dialogue w…
The emergence of the other sexual citizen: Orientalism and the Modernisation of Sexuality
Guided by the claims of the feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements and international human rights agendas, governments in late modern democracies have been implementing (or pressured to implement) new juridical frames to recognise sexual diversity. As a result, in the last two decades, gendered and sexual ‘others’ have been ‘included’ in citizenship leading to the formulation of what has been called ‘sexual citizens…
The Limits of Democracy: Transgender sex work and citizenship
During 1998 Buenos Aires witnessed a singular event: in the context of a broad legal renewal, street sex work was decriminalized. This decision proved to be highly problematic though, and led to a series of juridical reformulations that culminated in the delimitation of an official red light district in 2004. Nonetheless, although it might be thought that the legalization of this area as a site for street sex work (de facto aimed at trans sex wor…
The emergence of the other sexual citizen: Orientalism and the Modernisation of Sexuality
Guided by the claims of the feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements and international human rights agendas, governments in late modern democracies have been implementing (or pressured to implement) new juridical frames to recognise sexual diversity. As a result, in the last two decades, gendered and sexual ‘others’ have been ‘included’ in citizenship leading to the formulation of what has been called ‘sexual citizens…
Queering the Politics of Global Sexual Rights
To be ‘politically queer’ at the beginning of the 1990s indicated opposition to the policing of identity and heteronormativity, and adherence to a politics that transcended liberal‐legal claims. More recently, queer activism and scholarship have largely focused on contesting the emergence of homonormative forms of nationalism and institutionalized rights‐based LGBT politics. However, to define a political intervention as queer on the condition th…
Bodies as territories: Revisiting the Coloniality of Gender
In this article, I reconsider the coloniality of gender in light of Trans* anti-colonial contributions and feminist and women’s social movements’ mobilisation of the multidimensional concept of ‘territorio-cuerpo-tierra’ (territory-body-land) in contemporary Abya Yala. I ask what might be gained in centring the reconceptualisation of the relationship between gender and bodies offered by these activists and scholars within the theorisation of gend…
Vulnerability in Resistance
Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in Resistance articulate an understanding of the role of …
Imaginarios sexuales de la libertad: Performatividad, Cuerpos Y Fronteras
En un momento en que el sentido de la democracia se encuentra puesto en cuestión, de cara a la hegemonía neoliberal, en este artículo interrogo la política de la ciudadanía sexual, focalizando mi atención en la dimensión corporal de las luchas por la libertad y la justicia genérico-sexuales. Mientras que las fronteras, la racialización de los cuerpos y la regulación sexual han adquirido nuevos sentidos a la luz de este adverso momento político, n…
Dispossession: The performative in the political
Dispossession: The Performative in the Political, by Professors Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou, takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors. Their conversation centres on the conteste
The Limits of Democracy: Transgender sex work and citizenship
During 1998 Buenos Aires witnessed a singular event: in the context of a broad legal renewal, street sex work was decriminalized. This decision proved to be highly problematic though, and led to a series of juridical reformulations that culminated in the delimitation of an official red light district in 2004. Nonetheless, although it might be thought that the legalization of this area as a site for street sex work (de facto aimed at trans sex wor…
Judith Butler en Disputa: Lecturas sobre la Performatividad
Beyond Butlerophilia or Butlerophobia, the essays gathered in this volume offer an in-depth reading of Judith Butler's work and it is from this careful analysis of her proposal that the book as a whole examines the political implications of the performative turn Butler poses. In this key, performativity is understood as part of a project that goes through all his work, and involves reflection on subjective formations and bodily life in dialogue w…
The emergence of the other sexual citizen: Orientalism and the Modernisation of Sexuality
Guided by the claims of the feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements and international human rights agendas, governments in late modern democracies have been implementing (or pressured to implement) new juridical frames to recognise sexual diversity. As a result, in the last two decades, gendered and sexual ‘others’ have been ‘included’ in citizenship leading to the formulation of what has been called ‘sexual citizens…
Queering the Politics of Global Sexual Rights
To be ‘politically queer’ at the beginning of the 1990s indicated opposition to the policing of identity and heteronormativity, and adherence to a politics that transcended liberal‐legal claims. More recently, queer activism and scholarship have largely focused on contesting the emergence of homonormative forms of nationalism and institutionalized rights‐based LGBT politics. However, to define a political intervention as queer on the condition th…
The Political Imaginary of Sexual Freedom: Subjectivity and Power in the New Sexual Democratic Turn
This book develops a performative and relational approach to gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the psychosocial dimension of sexual life, Sabsay challenges accepted ideas of increased emancipation, and the steady extension of rights, offering instead …
Vulnerability in Resistance
Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in Resistance articulate an understanding of the role of …
Dispossession: The performative in the political
Dispossession: The Performative in the Political, by Professors Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou, takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors. Their conversation centres on the conteste
As "zonas vermelhas" do espaço público: O caso de Buenos Aires e a regulação urbana do trabalho sexual
Em 1998 houve em Buenos Aires um acontecimento singular: com a sanção do Código de Convivência Urbana em março deste ano, após a autonomização da Cidade de Buenos Aires, o trabalho sexual foi despenalizado. Tal evento produziu uma intensa luta por direitos e pela definição da cidadania deste "novo" espaço urbano, dando lugar a uma polêmica que segue ainda vigente. A trajetória do polêmico artigo 71 do Código de Convivência (que logo se tornou o 8…
Imaginarios sexuales de la libertad: Performatividad, Cuerpos Y Fronteras
En un momento en que el sentido de la democracia se encuentra puesto en cuestión, de cara a la hegemonía neoliberal, en este artículo interrogo la política de la ciudadanía sexual, focalizando mi atención en la dimensión corporal de las luchas por la libertad y la justicia genérico-sexuales. Mientras que las fronteras, la racialización de los cuerpos y la regulación sexual han adquirido nuevos sentidos a la luz de este adverso momento político, n…
The Political Aesthetics of Vulnerability and the Feminist Revolt
Contemporary transnational times are characterized by renewed struggles over the meaning of democracy. In this postdemocratic moment, political and cultural practices and popular mobilizations and demands have exceeded, and ultimately questioned, some of representative democracy's core conventions, from the mass feminist demonstrations and strikes, to the rise of populist politics both in Europe and the Americas. Importantly, these struggles atte…
Beyond Populist Borders: Embodiment and the People in Laclau's Political Ontology
Taking as a point of departure Ernesto Laclau's proposition that populism exposes the logic of the political, I explore how articulation and embodiment work in On Populist Reason. I argue that Laclau's model of meaning making set limits to the understanding of politics that are primarily embodied, such as those involving popular mobilizations, but also nationalist investments in border making. Ultimately, I propose some complementary keys for bri…
Bodies as territories: Revisiting the Coloniality of Gender
In this article, I reconsider the coloniality of gender in light of Trans* anti-colonial contributions and feminist and women’s social movements’ mobilisation of the multidimensional concept of ‘territorio-cuerpo-tierra’ (territory-body-land) in contemporary Abya Yala. I ask what might be gained in centring the reconceptualisation of the relationship between gender and bodies offered by these activists and scholars within the theorisation of gend…
The political aesthetics of cruelty: Contemporary authoritarian politics and the struggle between sovereignty and relationality
In a historical present marked by the ascendance of neo-authoritarianisms across the world, we bear witness to a renewed politics of hatred and violence and the heightening of the vulnerability of life. In this context, vulnerability has either been weaponised to justify violent forms of government or critically mobilised to stake a claim for justice, thereby becoming the object of political dispute. Against this backdrop, I explore this neo-auth…
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