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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Adom Getachew; Karuna Mantena Abstract This essay surveys some recent attempts to decolonize political theory and engage with non-Western political thinkers and traditions, especially anticolonialism. The authors' concern is that these engagements remain too centered on Western political thought...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 337–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Murad Idris Abstract Recent decades have seen a turn toward colonialism and anticolonial thought in the discipline of political theory. This turn has done the crucial work of bringing questions of dispossession, racialization, and the critical imaginaries of marginalized bodies of thought...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 445–475.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that marks it even among the left, and open it instead onto those cases of anticolonial politics that did not play out, at least initially, as a desire for the forward march of progress and its terminus in the state form? In these cases, how do we move past the language, or more precisely, the grammar...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 December 2021
... histories of the modern world. This article thus moves on two fronts in order to meet the stated objectives of expanding the field of critical theory while tracking “untimely traditions” and the horizons they've drawn. It will offer a history of anticolonial practice that was simultaneously theorized within...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 353–358.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Revolution and chronicler of Third World anticolonial movements, published an essay with the provocative subtitle “How to Tell When the Rebels Have Won.” Ahmad argues in this essay that what escapes the prose of US counterinsurgency in Vietnam is precisely the guerilla movement's “central objective...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 645–662.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and illuminates their relationship to the history of the Palestinian liberation struggle and its transformations from the 1960s into the post-Oslo present. The interview situates the hunger strike at the center of a Palestinian political culture of anticolonial protest and argues that this form of strike...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
...-imagination for consolidating the bonds of anticolonial struggle and a vision of a postcolonial future. Shifting from translation to resonance and from language to voice, the essay ultimately engages the poetic potentials of translation as part of a pragmatics of anticolonial solidarity, integral...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 413–435.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Cecilia Lisa Eliceche Abstract This conversation brings together Mapuche Weichafe and writer Moira Ivana Millán and Haitian art collector Houngan Jean-Daniel Lafontant. They reflect on the histories of colonialism and anticolonial resistance and discuss the workings of memory, embodiment...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 552–559.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of this call—as well as of a shared opposition to the dubious comforts of historicism—that a dialogue can take place between these two bodies of theory, one that lends an ear to anticolonial Marxism's tragic overtones, its unreconciled and unfinished legacies. If Said thereby misses the revolutionary core...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 530–542.
Published: 01 December 2021
... threat, Amel recalls Frantz Fanon's warning to anticolonial revolutionaries that they should not merely “join the people in the past where they are no longer” and instead tarry in that “place of imbalance” where “everything will be questioned.” 2 Here, Amel argues, is where the anticolonial cultural...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 389–416.
Published: 01 December 2021
... date of colonialism then the work of anticolonial politics, and of decolonization, would be redundant. As Grosfoguel puts it, “One of the most powerful myths of the twentieth century was the notion that the elimination of colonial administrations amounted to the decolonization of the world.” 14...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 543–551.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Mode,” 243 ). 2. Traverso, Left-Wing Melancholia , 52 . Enzo Traverso's idea of a missed encounter between Western Marxism and anticolonial thought is rooted in the lack of reference Theodor W. Adorno and C. L. R. James have to each other's works, particularly despite their respective readings...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 39–58.
Published: 01 April 2019
... suggests, the humanism proper to Bergsonian thinking emerged as a forceful intellectual current in anticolonial nationalist movements as they sought to rediscover the sources of emancipation and liberation in a reconfigured world picture. This, too, as we know all too well, was a project eclipsed...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 326–331.
Published: 01 August 2024
... by “savages,” an inhuman world devoid of Westphalian sovereignty, a boundary onto the stateless. It is the site for a struggle over the inhuman realm. The ontological catastrophe that is the imposed humanist settler order is paradoxically a resource for anticolonialism at the site of the inhuman border...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 304–317.
Published: 01 August 2024
....” In this context, there is an affinity, or a close relationship, between the operations of anticolonial resistance and the concept of the formless. Both entail an effort to subvert and destabilize established structures and meanings, and both defy any attempt at classification that seeks to impose a stable...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 304–323.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of good and evil. Terms such as liberal , nativist , secular , Marxist , Islamist , feminist , fascist , anti-imperialist , anticolonial , reactionary , or Third-Worldist —which tell us as much about the critics' contemporary ideologies as about the attachments of yesterday's revolutionaries...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 April 2021
... that these examples of excessive violence can be domesticated in the idea of nonviolence insofar as it is able to claim the virtue which nevertheless serves them as a foundation. Commenting on the suicidal assassins of the anticolonial struggle in his own day, Gandhi was clear that what Balibar considers nihilistic...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 479–492.
Published: 01 December 2019
... first come across Al-Assifa? What personal relationship do you, Moroccan-born whose parents immigrated to France, have with this particular story and its legacy? Bouchra: To answer your question, I need to give a sense of context. I have inherited a double history: the history of anticolonial...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 475–494.
Published: 01 August 2022
... the anticolonial dream of emancipation and self-governance into a neocolonial replication of authoritarianism. 15 More generally, from Southeast Asia 16 to South America, 17 this autocratic political form has historically relied on the vertical construction of hierarchical and unequal distributions...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 58–84.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Shibli silence voice anticolonialism 92. Shibli, Minor Detail , 84. 93. Shibli, Minor Detail , 86. 94. Shibli, Minor Detail , 88. 95. Shibli, Minor Detail , 92. 96. Shibli, Minor Detail , 92. 97. Schuppli, “Some Sinister Force.” 98. Haytami...