The resisting subject is itself produced by the norms it opposes.

Evidence

Echoing Foucault, Butler argues, “The paradox of subjectivation (as jetissement) is precisely that the subject who would resist such norms is itself enabled, if not produced, by such norms. AI.. though this constitutive constraint does not foreclose the possibility of agency, it does locate agency as a reiterative or rearticulatory practice, immanent to power, and not a relation of exter.. nal opposition to power” (1993, 15). — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 158

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crisply defines subjectivation and locates agency as immanent to power.
• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s discipline-and-punish framework and to the book’s project of rethinking Muslim women’s piety not as false consciousness. — connects to: Dasein must resist the sway of an impersonal conformity force to live authentically. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 264