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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 588–594.
Published: 01 December 2021
... a relaxing Tadaasana in the morning and I turn my head to [the] right, India is the first democracy I see and when Modi does a relaxing Vasisthasana and he turns left, Israel is the first democracy he can see. So in fact we have in India and Israel two sister democracies.” 1 It is not difficult to see...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 80–98.
Published: 01 April 2018
...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...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Wendy Brown Abstract What peculiar form of freedom is cultivated and promised in right-wing political formations today? How does “illiberal democracy” sew together libertarianism and authoritarianism? How is the radical disinhibition and aggressiveness contained in these formations reconciled...
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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 (2020) 3 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Leticia Sabsay Abstract Contemporary transnational times are characterized by renewed struggles over the meaning of democracy. In this postdemocratic moment, political and cultural practices and popular mobilizations and demands have exceeded, and ultimately questioned, some of representative...
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Critical Times 10800331.
Published: 15 June 2023
...Philipp Sperner Abstract This article engages with B. R. Ambedkar as political philosopher and key contributor to debates on global democracy and the genealogy of democratic ideas outside the West. I focus specifically on Ambedkar’s use of Buddhist philosophy and the concept of śūnyatā or emptiness...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 121–128.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., restructures working time, imposes styles of reading, affects teaching, and dictates new research practices. But above all, the rearticulations of democracy due to the digital condition will mark the new state of the universities. And such a prospect can perhaps be defined within Bill Sharpe's three horizons...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 534–550.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Gaurav J. Pathania Abstract The university space, the most endangered zone in Indian democracy in the present, is witnessing the ideological churnings, contradictions, and emergent possibilities of affinity among radical voices contesting culturally hegemonic practices. Student activism in general...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of critical theory, linking its practices of reading and judgment to the kinds of inquiry and forms of living that sustain the ideals of democracy. jpbutler@berkeley.edu © 2022 Judith Butler 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... on attributions of sociocultural pathology or historical backwardness. 55 There was very little attempt to rethink, adjust, or stretch categories such as the nation-state, democracy, or the political party to better fit these new political realities and experiences. Rather, the overriding impulse was to treat...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 275–309.
Published: 01 August 2022
... book, Abiding by Sri Lanka , is spurred by the questioning of “not just the necessity or practicality but the very ethicality of what is arguably the founding structural principle of representative democracy: majority rule.” For him, such a questioning includes the “indispensable enterprise...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2018
... to restrain the deep social exclusion and fragmentation generated by the absolutization of market logics and their production of truth. This context raises the question: how much exclusion and social conflict can liberal democracy contain, so that these processes can become immunizing elements and not deathly...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 99–107.
Published: 01 April 2018
... with each other at an existential/structural level. Capitalism and democracy are profound enemies; pushed to the ontological limit in each case, the existence of each means the other's annihilation, war to the death. In this respect, however we may define them precisely, the crisis of capitalism...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 129–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
...). university neoliberal sacred democracy humanities In this apocalyptic moment, how might we hold imaginative space for the university of what playwright James Ijames, in TJ Loves Sally 4ever , calls “the dope-ass future?” 1 That may sound gratingly optimistic as the bombshells of our times...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2018
... authoritarianism constituent power democracy When the Republic was proclaimed in France during the revolution, the National Convention adopted a calendar that started anew. Napoleon abolished it once he was crowned Emperor. Although this experiment with a republican calendar was short-lived, the gesture...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 April 2019
... have in fact proliferated more than ever before. Globalization proclaims itself more pluralist, more tolerant, and more democratic with respect to ideology and critique. But the idea that any ideology, as long as it is expressed in “civil” terms, must be included on the menu of democracy is one...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Marcuse on Student Protests, Violence, and Democracy.” 15 Here, the parallels between the 1968 movement and the 2015 student movement were largely implied, but what was significant about the article was that it transferred into the public debate in South Africa the hostile language that Adorno used...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 577–587.
Published: 01 December 2021
... nation.” 3 He added, “There will be no second-class citizens and second-class voters . . . All of us will all be equal, all of us, Jews and Arabs, all citizens of Israel.” 4 The juxtaposing of Israel's exclusively Jewish national nature and the claim of democracy and equality is not new...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 475–494.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... “ Faly aux vazaha : Eugène Bastard, Taboo, and Mahafale Autarky in Southwest Madagascar, 1899 .” History in Africa , no. 26 ( 1999 ): 129 – 55 . Lazar Sian . “ Of Autocracy and Democracy; or, Discipline and Anarchy: When Organizational Structure Meets Political Ideology in Argentine Public...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 466–478.
Published: 01 December 2019
.../darfur-icc-and-new-humanitarian-order . Mamdani Mahmood . Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror . New York : Three Rivers , 2010 . Mamdani Mahmood , and Wamba-dia-Wamba Ernest , eds. African Studies in Social Movements and Democracy . Dakar...
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