Excitable Speech or A Promised Land a Perilous Journey

Excitable Speech: Contemporary Scenes of Politics

Author: Judith P Butler

With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and

regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites.

contexts of verbal conduct, this book, too, is sure to have an effect (Lambda Book Report)

frameworks

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Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: On Linguistic Vulnerability	1
1	Burning Acts, Injurious Speech	43
2	Sovereign Performatives	71
3	Contagious Word: Paranoia and "Homosexuality" in the Military	103
4	Implicit Censorship and Discursive Agency	127
	Notes	165
	Index	183

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A Promised Land, a Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration

Author: Daniel G Groody

The nineteen authors in this collection recognize that one characteristic of globalization is the movement not only of goods and ideas but also of people. The crossing of geographical borders confronts Christians, as well as all citizens, with choices: between national security and human insecurity, between sovereign national rights and human rights, between citizenship and discipleship. Bearing these global dimensions in mind, the essays in this book focus on the particular problems of immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border. The contributors to this volume include scholars as well as pastors and lay people involved in immigration aid work.