... of the imperial-Christian West to secure it. Balibar's attempt to bring together a critique of the state's propensity to extreme violence, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a desire to rehabilitate the state as a democratic actor within the logic of a transnational civility leads to indecision...

.... Starting from situations embodying extreme violence, or cruelty, and contrasting them with a politics of civility, this article argues that if we want to define the conditions and the goals of politics, it is not enough to just be mindful of violence, or to see it as a central problem for politics. What we...

... of the current conjuncture. © 2021 Robin Celikates 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Étienne Balibar violence non-violence politics civility Throughout his wide-ranging work, Étienne Balibar has sought...

...–Cold War “peace dividend” was replaced by continuous local and regional wars. In the past thirty years, the United States in particular became post–middle class, post–civil rights, and postdemocratic. Future universities will need to confront all three legacies if they are to transform themselves...

... o instrumento de otro instrumento de control mayor: la violación en sí misma. A través de una examinación de una serie de violaciones, algunas cometidas por civiles, otras por agentes del estado durante la dictadura militar, Moreno ilustra e ilumina las contradicciones de las categorías existentes...

...figure 1 . “Shame on the murderers of the great thinker and militant Hussein Mroueh, 1987.” Signs of Conflict: Political Posters of Lebanon's Civil War , www.signsofconflict.org . ...

... and practices failed to address the global “cold civil war” represented by the events of 1968. This article will show that in the 1970s this task was not undertaken by “professional revolutionaries” or in their Maoist discourse of “protracted war” and its “generalized Clauzewitzian strategy.” Rather...

...Nandini Sundar Abstract This article explores the aporias of democracy to show how both procedural and substantive democracy, or at least certain constructions of “need,” operate to render the lives of sections of the citizenry precarious. More specifically, in the context of an ongoing civil war...

... facing a major enemy, the Transitional Military Council (TMC), which intends to maintain the status quo ante. This essay asks: can Sudanese civil society challenge the TMC and lead the country out of autocracy, achieving genuine democratization, or will the TMC cut short such transformation? © 2019...

... with colonialism, as Fanon does, or with modern civilization, as Gandhi did, where both of these names nevertheless imply it. But the focus on violence as a naturalized condition, rather than as a regime or political type like dictatorship, authoritarianism, or totalitarianism, remains constant in all...

... of these projects also constitutes a violence of its own. 16. I am paraphrasing Crary's account in 24/7 , 25–27 . 15. Although Benjamin speaks of civil and not international law, we might still think here of the sorry history of US treaties with American Indian tribes, their worthlessness on paper...

..., compromised, or corrupted universalisms of Western civilization and the hypocrisy of its self-understanding as the beacon of enlightened humanism. The record of colonial violence, exploitation, and domination revealed the limits and fragilities of the West's commitment to freedom and, especially, its capacity...

... “ Anti-Boycott Legislation around the Country,” palestinelegal.org/righttoboycott . 5. For a summary of the relation between individual civil rights and social rights, and the close relation between that opposition and conservatism and white supremacy in the United States, see Greg Grandin...

... authority of men in uniform. A feminist practice of thinking at the extremes asks: What world is known and knowable through a specific concept of violence? What world is opened up in the idea of civility, defined not as nonviolence, but as anti-violence? What is rendered speakable through the concept...

... their will in and through the apparatus of the state. Insofar as the laws of civil society are “but the will of [the capitalist] class made into a law for all,” they themselves constitute, for Marx and Engels, a kind of undemocratic bourgeois despotism. 2 What rises up against it can, from a bourgeois point of view...

... naming it “the ultimate act of civil disobedience” to rendering it merely an “unmitigated rejection of the Taliban.” 1 But in contemporary Afghanistan it is far too easy to misappropriate loss politically and ethically, marking its constituents and its bearers. In this short essay, we read the scene...

... for desertion. Works Cited Asad Talal . “ Conscripts of Western Civilization .” In Civilization in Crisis: Anthropological Perspectives , vol. 1 of Dialectical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Stanley Diamond , edited by Gailey Christine Ward , 334 – 51 . Tallahassee : University...

.... This contradictory antiblackness is played out through an (un)intended dependency on Spanish civility and (post-)Enlightenment thought as carrying a thread of subjecthood for Puerto Ricans in the colony and its diaspora. De Burgos's and Pietri's migratory “American Blackness” must be negated in order for the Puerto...

... has freedom become the calling card and the energy of a formation so manifestly unemancipatory, indeed routinely characterized as heralding “illiberal democracy” in its attacks on equal rights, civil liberties, Constitutionalism, and basic norms of tolerance and inclusion, and in its affirmations...