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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 588–594.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Kashmir Needs Israel-Like Solution Stirs Controversy .” India Today , November 27 , 2019 . www.indiatoday.in/india/story/indian-diplomat-in-us-sandeep-chakravorty-kashmiri-pandits-israel-palestine-1623107-2019-11-27 . Jaffrelot Christophe . “ A De Facto Ethnic Democracy? Obliterating...
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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 (2023) 6 (3): 493–516.
Published: 01 December 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 (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 (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. [email protected] © 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 (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 (2024) 7 (1): 128–152.
Published: 01 April 2024
... so attractive to contemporary scholars—her revolutionary radicalism, her accounts of spontaneity and democracy, and her critique of imperialism—are undergirded by her commitment to that theory, along with its commitments to unilinearity, necessity, and progress. This theory provides the systematic...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 129–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 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...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2018
... However, according to Agamben, the state of exception enables an assumption of extraordinary powers that invariably collapses the separation between the executive and the legislative branches, thereby delineating “a threshold of indeterminacy between democracy and absolutism.” Thus, modern democracies...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the self-ruling Indian village as the cornerstone of a radically decentralized polity, an alternative basis of individual self-rule and true democracy. Whether one accepts the substantive conclusions of Fanon's or Gandhi's analyses, what is noteworthy is that both frame the problem of Eurocentrism...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 275–309.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Qadri . “ Speaking to Sri Lanka .” Interventions 3 , no. 2 ( 2001 ): 296 – 308 . Ismail Qadri . “ What, to the Minority, Is Democracy? ” Groundviews , November 3 , 2018 . https://groundviews.org/2018/11/03/what-to-the-minority-is-democracy/ . Kant Immanuel . “ An Answer...
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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 (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 April 2019
... 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 of the clearest symptoms of the death or decline of the ideological in the modern sense. The weakening of ideology is thus linked...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
... academics at South African universities. 55. Motimele, “Rupture of Neoliberal Time.” See also Armstrong and Nadal, “Building Times.” 56. Gilmore, Golden Gulag , 14 . 57. Davis, Abolition Democracy , 107–8 . 58. Abdulla Ibrahim, pers. corr., Fugard Theatre, Cape Town...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 577–587.
Published: 01 December 2021
... colonization of Palestinians (and the racist hierarchies produced by that process) but rather the absence of the liberal performance in the black letter of the law. Zionists, like Livni, who rejected the law asked that it enshrine equality and democracy alongside the Jewish definition of the state...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 436–463.
Published: 01 December 2023
... collectivities, and even of political “representation” as opposed to the idealization of an immanent community in democracy. 14 I will return later in the essay to the theme of representation. Despite his enthusiastic membership in Hindu nationalist organizations, in his court statement, Godse does...
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