Search Results for anticolonialism

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...-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...

...Nikolas Kosmatopoulos Abstract How does Palestine solidarity alter thinking from the sea? How does the anticolonial insurgency in Palestine connect to and enhance international solidarity movements and other struggles against neocolonial formations at sea? Can we think of a solidarity-induced...

...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...

... of anticolonial insurgents is revealed as the fated return of imperial barbarity. As Marx declares in the article “The Indian Revolt,” from September 4, 1857: The outrages committed by the revolted Sepoys in India are indeed appalling, hideous, ineffable—such as one is prepared to meet only in wars...

... 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...

... of students the end of apartheid did not mean the end of colonialism. Colonialism as a problem in society and in the university was identified as an ongoing one and therefore necessitated anticolonial political intervention to decolonize knowledge in the university. If earlier critical moments...

... counterpart, the “nonidentical,” is never explicitly mentioned. Yet there is an affinity with the Adornian concept that is worth pursuing. By thinking Amel with Adorno, I further open this discussion onto the vexed development of Marxism and anticolonial and postcolonial thought. Amel and Adorno have...

... in which the memory of a past marked by an order of race and a technē of invention stakes out a claim to a university discourse. The South returns us more purposefully to the unresolved idea of freedom specific to university discourse forged in the midst of the anticolonial struggles and Third World...

... 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...

... obliteration. But the encampment also exceeds our demands. It is a rallying cry. It synchronizes, coordinates, and collectivizes a gesture toward both colonial destruction and anticolonial struggle in Palestine. Such is our solidarity. It is a persevering echo of Palestine in Berkeley. This echo not only...

... as they embraced Israel. As both Du Bois alluded to in his 1940 Dusk of Dawn and the Black anticolonial poet Aimé Césaire insisted in his 1955 Discourse on Colonialism , while the victorious allies of the West portrayed Hitler as a uniquely German monster, Du Bois and Césaire recognized him as part...

....” 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...

....” 18. Freud, “Fetishism.” 17. To be clear, I am not suggesting, as the Iranian critic Ali Shariati did, an anticolonial return to the self. Rather, I am inviting reflection on contemporary readings of Iran's revolutionary archives as being projects caught up in fetishism—as is disclosed...

... 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...