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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 445–475.
Published: 01 December 2021
... was revolutionary about the Palestinian anticolonial experience was neither the spectacularity of its armed insurrection nor its call for radical equality but its capacity to creatively make autonomous territory and declare communes. Second, reading this history poses questions about what a renewed encounter...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Daniel Loick Abstract This article explores the normative structure of counter-communities. These communities do not simply fulfill a compensatory function for excluded or oppressed groups; their specific sociality is transcendent of society at large. The article outlines this notion...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 97–108.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Pedro Fiori Arantes Abstract Brazil has around half of Latin America's twenty-five best-ranked universities, and all of them are public. Most Brazilian public universities are also socially embedded, building knowledge in dialogue with communities, and are involved in defending human rights, social...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 514–518.
Published: 01 December 2020
... at appropriation of liberal-academic vocabularies by right-wing groups and Yiannopoulos's history of outing trans and undocumented students at his events, and call for widespread action against the spread of violent rhetoric targeting marginalized communities in order to maintain the university as a space...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 488–495.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and interlocking oppressions. Intersectionality is also in itself a methodology. Intersectionality as demonstrated by feminists and the LGBTIQA community of the FMF movement is a methodological choice that requires that various forms of protest and intervention be used simultaneously to challenge systemic...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 April 2019
...-ended, unconditional research, on the other; (4) the modern categories used to understand the university; (5) the university community defined as an organic unity of knowledges; and (6) the autonomy, the untimeliness, the philosophy of history, the enthusiastic mission, and the epic narrative...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 108–119.
Published: 01 April 2018
... as a response to the crisis of the representative democracy. This essay locates the insurgent legacy of the imperative mandate in the Paris Commune, in the German councils, and in the Zapatistas’ practice of mandar obedeciendo (rule by obeying), in order to consider possible democratic alternatives...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 91–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Robin Celikates Abstract Violence manifests as a force that dissects: it disjoins, divides, breaks up lives and bodies, communities, the environment. It also constitutes a field of forces that theory, in its critical registers, is trying to dissect, to anatomize, to take apart, to lay open, to open...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 538–569.
Published: 01 December 2022
... that the general strike inherently raises around work, temporality, the idea of the proletariat, and communism, while engaging several important thinkers of the general strike (in particular W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter Benjamin, and Saidiya Hartman). Ultimately, the essay argues for approaching the general strike...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 15–38.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Lucie K. Mercier Abstract Fanon considered that colonial alienation produced multiple forms of relational pathologies, many of which expressed themselves in and through blockages in communication rather than through explicit conflict. Exposing the role of language as a vector of racial violence...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 133–158.
Published: 01 April 2019
... into account the Janus-faced, omnipotent, moralizing, and sacrificial character of this new community of “entrepreneurs cum punishers,” we focus on the idiosyncratic forms that this relationship takes in our current historical conjuncture, distinguishing it from previous inflections and ideological...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 416–434.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Marianne Hirsch Abstract Responding to current conditions of statelessness by way of Hannah Arendt's mid- twentieth century reflections, this article proposes the aesthetic encounter as a practice of alternative, counter-national community and belonging. Artistic works exploring the vulnerabilities...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 150–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... The essay attempts to demonstrate how the “liberal” has become the cultural logic of a communal-fascist regime, insofar as the regime is harnessing universities to its project of redefining citizenship in line with its recently passed citizenship laws. In this context, how might a hijacked “idea...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... Class structures, resource distribution schemes, communication potentials, and modes of belonging and exclusion have undergone significant changes. To determine which of the traits of the contemporary power paradigm would foreground new fascistic tendencies, this essay first revisits some of the most...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 244–256.
Published: 01 August 2023
... common liberalist accounts of the PRC. On a world stage of global reading communities, the tethering of the village ghost to coordinates of apparently knowable historical time pairs with the author's ambiguous position vis-à-vis the formal sign of unknowability—censorship. The text, the (partially...
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Published: 01 December 2020
FIGURE 3. The school schedule is never fixed. Instead it depends on the availability of the group, which consists of people from different professional backgrounds, ranging from housewives to biology students, creative freelancers, community activists, architects, university lecturers, and others
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Published: 01 December 2020
, and Miss America, while many others are anonymous, including a preacher, a sailor, and community members. These compiled images held up on protest signs signify a demonstration and serve as a perfect gesture that connects the history and legacy of protest with the urgency of the present.
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Published: 01 December 2020
far have led us to attend to the struggle of coastal farmers against the government’s developmentalist agenda; the precarious labor of online service ride-hailing drivers; and the economic tactics of urban community organizations led by poor women who live in wastelands, among other questions
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 519–527.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in a civic-resistance movement, is a caste mandate against a community of people considered untouchable. It deploys a social sanction as a practice of caste against the most oppressed, particularly in India and even today. In late 2005 five Dalit PhD scholars from the University of Hyderabad were mandated...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 198–211.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... The simple hierarchy of a low-intensity or low-impact patriarchy in community life is interrupted by the colonial process, managed first by the overseas metropolis and later by the creole-governed republican states. During this process and transition, the explicit and low-intensity asymmetry of pre...
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