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cjgl-2636	Birla, Ritu	Performativity between Logos and Nomos: Law, Temporality and the Non-Economic Analysis of Power	2011	24	.pdf	application/pdf	8633	317	41	Performativity between Logos and Nomos: Law, Temporality and the Non-Economic Analysis of Power COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF GENDER AND LAW PERFORMATIVITY BETWEEN LOGOS AND NOMOS: LAW, TEMPORALITY AND THE NON- ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF POWER RITU BIRLA* Judith Butler's signature theorizing of performativity requires attention to the full ethico-political range of the meanings of law, from self-discipline to convention to the juridical logic of sovereignty. The problems of context and historicity structure the early pages of Excitable Speech, where Butler announces her project to show how a theory of the performative 9 For a foundational analysis of colonial law in India, see BERNARD COHN, From Indian Status to British Contract, in AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AMONG HISTORIANS AND OTHER ESSAYS 463 (1990); BERNARD COHN, Law and the Colonial State, in COLONIALISM AND ITS FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE 57 (1996).	cache/cjgl-2636.pdf	txt/cjgl-2636.txt