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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 106–132.
Published: 01 April 2019
... politics of mourning crosses paths with Arendt's valorization of truth in politics, because both argue for the centrality of reality testing in mourning. In order to add to Butler's account of collective mourning, the article concludes by returning to Freud's psychoanalytic account of the work of mourning...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 218–226.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to build our own repertoire of inspiring female models. Both Antigone and Demeter are commendable women, but they fight, and mourn, alone. The Not One Less movement offers an alternative narrative, where mourning becomes a collective and public experience, the foundation for a new poiesis . All...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1)
Published: 01 April 2018
... of undocumented migrant crossings, and dystopian landscapes are interwoven with a mournful voice-over enunciated from a different time and place. The fate of the wall is sealed: its remains are to be collected like forensic evidence by a visitor, perhaps another anthropologist and artist, perhaps another...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 234–240.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... Not surprisingly, López draws upon Judith Butler to argue that “mourning recovers a shared corporal condition: vulnerability.” Precisely, this sense of collective mourning emerges as a tool to break with victimizing narratives. “Mourning implies crying together over the deaths, sharing in the pain, the fury...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 254–261.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., as López points out, women draw political nourishment from public mourning; it is a way to mobilize as a collective against violence. Both vulnerability and its subsequent mourning are transmuted into collective agency. Here, we return to the notion of the category of womanhood, rather than individual...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 151–166.
Published: 01 August 2023
... the relationship between recuperation and the right to mourn in “Paradise Lost? Memorializing Kashmiri Pandit Loss in Ghar ka Pata .” She examines the memorial aesthetics and politics of a diasporic film that mobilizes a family visual archive to document how Kashmiri Pandits remember collective loss. Beyond...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 202–211.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Anila Daulatzai; Sahar Ghumkhor Abstract What does it mean for mourning and racial melancholia to inhabit (and exceed) the geography of Afghanistan, structured by serial wars and serial foreign occupations? As Afghans are subjected to immense forms of loss, what forms of melancholia take hold...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 289–303.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to the collection Loss , David Eng and David Kazanjian propose, against the grain of Freud's legacy, “a counterintuitive apprehension of loss as creative,” arguing that the “avowal” of loss can produce “a world of new representations and alternative meaning.” They redefine melancholia as a work of mourning...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 262–264.
Published: 01 April 2022
... with the subjective knot that binds politics to imagination, we must acknowledge that the coordinates that enclose the imagination are none other than those of singularity, identity, and the natural. In Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience, and Desire , María Pia López pushes back against these two limitations...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 244–256.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... Since Freud, many have pointed to the importance of addressing collective dimensions of loss and the need to rethink the ethics and politics of mourning and melancholia. 26 In the instance here, dystopic visions of loss provided by the figure of the village ghost host a parallax view—a spectral gaze...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 371–381.
Published: 01 August 2023
... the Chilean collective unconscious. A painful feeling of melancholy took hold, an inability to mourn a project that was not to be but could have been. But such melancholy must establish a creative relation to the lost object, where what's fundamental will be the incorporation of the loss into the community...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 158–177.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... In the face of the homes that turn into hells, we organize to defend ourselves and care for ourselves. In the face of machista crime and its pedagogy of cruelty, in the face of the media's attempts to victimize and terrorize us, we turn individual mourning into collective solace and the rage of shared...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 382–397.
Published: 01 August 2023
... a blockbuster Bollywood production. The film seems to offer a more searching examination of the losses suffered by Kashmiri Pandits after their displacement from Kashmir. In the current climate of rising authoritarianism in India, many would celebrate Jalali's film as one that mourns Pandit losses without...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Karen Benezra [email protected] © 2022 Karen Benezra 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience, and Desire is a book about “a movement underway,” as María Pia López...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 396–415.
Published: 01 December 2019
... a wake: waves rippling after some ship of violent modernity passes; an aftermath that is also a living-after, as in the twice-grown grass to which “aftermath” still refers in agriculture; a space of mourning opened up by the encounter with the dead; and, also, a growing, flowing surge forward in which...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... corporatization. She writes that on the ethico-political register of subaltern and postcolonial literary criticism, “perhaps the literary can still do something. Or perhaps not.” 1 She continues: “That any reader will waste the time to learn to parse the desires (not the needs) of collective examples...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 179–188.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and fluids of all the beings who inhabit the soil. Here, the landscape and its lifeforms are the landfill. And yet even as it remains unsettlingly amorphous in its toxic sensoriality, spent earth, my Marind friends emphasized, “must be mourned.” 2 Singing, storying, and even touching this dangerous...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 241–248.
Published: 01 April 2022
... respond to López's book here and attempt to draw connections between the Argentinian Ni Una Menos and the Italian Non Una di Meno. Reading Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience, and Desire is first of all part of a process of bearing witness to the emergence and development of a transnational...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 August 2020
... on October 19 of that year, inspired by the Polish Women's Strike in favor of the legalization of abortion held some weeks earlier. The slogan, “NUM, Vivas Nos Queremos” (We Want Ourselves Alive), was meant as a call for a public vigil aimed at turning the individual act of mourning into a collective...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 304–323.
Published: 01 August 2023
... . “ Political Philosophy in Freud: War, Destruction, and the Critical Faculty .” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis , edited by Gipps Richard G. T. and Lacewing Michael , 727 – 50 . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . Comay Rebecca . Mourning Sickness...
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