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Judith Butler. Trauma and the Victim

Title:Judith Butler. Trauma and the Victim
Date:2006Length:0:09:16
Judith Butler lecturing on the notion of trauma, how it threatens to reenact the past as the present by relieving past victims of responsibility for any wrong they maybe doing (due to trauma) in the present. In light of these thoughts, she reflects on the then-current situation in the Israel/Palestine conflict.