Rosa Parks con Judith Butler: Performatividad individual y acción colectiva

Abstract

This paper relies on two opposite temporal directions. In the first one, I draw on black and latino ball culture to reread the historical refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her seat on the bus. The second one outlines a queer genealogy of the uses of theatricality in contemporary forms of urban activism. Drawing on the encounter between both temporal directions and engaging in a dialogue with Judith Butler's recent work I argue for taking into account the performative dimension of individual interventions in the space of the protest in order to understand the mobilizing power of collective action.