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... or unidirectional movement; rather, it undulates in multiple directions, demonstrating a dynamic historical memory important for political mobilization. Bolaño's poetic rendering of state violence against student activists registers the temporal and global manifestations of past struggles as well as their future...

... instances of life being destroyed, the planet being wounded, and its peoples being exploited and damaged. This structured unsustainability has gone on largely unhindered, gaining speed and intensity during the past seven decades of globalization and development—or what some call “the Great Acceleration...

... of deep neoliberalization, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, were out of power. Not many years later, the Cold War had been replaced by a “Global War on Terror,” computers had morphed into a global techno-economic system with names like platform capitalism or surveillance capitalism...

... question of knowledge as such. It argues that the question of power and prejudice acquires a different dimension when we consider the university of the Global South. If our struggle is to recover knowledges buried by history, to subvert existing knowledge formations, and to generate new knowledges out...

...Keri Facer; Christopher Newfield Abstract The authors organized a conference, “Global Higher Education in 2050: Imagining Universities for Sustainable Societies,” at the University of California, Santa Barbara, March 4–6, 2020, right before the campus was closed for eighteen months in response...

...Wilson Chacko Jacob Abstract History has been difficult to dislodge from its colonial trajectory in spite of at least a half-century of post-Orientalist critique. Accordingly, a critical theory that is genuinely global in its lineaments is difficult to establish as practice without more decolonial...

... adapted the revolutionary program of his associate Robert Wedderburn, a Jamaican-born Black abolitionist and “ultraradical” communist. Wedderburn's 1817 abolitionist text on the general strike, energized by the Haitian Revolution and calling for global rebellion across both the Caribbean and Europe...

...Paola Rudan; ∫connessioni Precarie; Non Una di Meno Roma Abstract Commenting on three activist documents on the global women's strike published by the Italian network Non Una di Meno and by the collective ∫connessioni precarie, this text reads the March 8 strike in Italy as part of a transnational...

...Juan Obarrio Abstract This inaugural issue of Critical Times takes the pulse of the current global political condition, engaging with contexts marked both by the crisis of liberal democratic regimes and by the emergence of new authoritarian political and cultural formations. Some of the essays...

... 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...

... an anomaly then, has moved into the very foreground of consciousness today. Globally dispersed and networked production spurred by automation has led to the paradoxical intersection of rising productivity and falling life chances. For the first time since the twentieth century, large populations at the very...

...Nadia Bou Ali Abstract This roundtable revolves around the translation of selections from Amel's book Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? On Edward Said's Marx in “Orientalism , ” published in Arabic in 1986. The importance of bringing this Arabic text to an English and global...

... 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...

... to a critique of historicism, then to a disavowal of history, on to postcolonial criticism, and ultimately to a cosmopolitical stance. It suggests that Guha's most important contribution to global critical theory is not his historiographical achievements but his unique phenomenology of time. Mobilizing both...

...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...

...Ewa Majewska Abstract In the current revival of fundamentalist right-wing politics globally, Poland occupies an important place given the struggles for abortion and reproductive justice that have been ongoing there since 2016. Together with Mexican, Argentinian, South Korean, and Italian women...

... in their mouths, so that they explode like miniature suicide bombers. Muslim violence against Hindus, when not characterized by stone-pelting and hand-to-hand fighting for control over neighborhoods, is modeled on the high-tech practices of global jihad movements in its reliance on bombs. This is also due...

... south-south partnership. 4. Throughout this essay, the notion of “global south” is not bound to strict geographic associations but refers to a marker of unequal global power relations. I also do not capitalize global south to reject the conventional usage of the term as a homogeneous entity...

... article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). futures higher education universities time method An invitation to write about “Global Higher Education in 2050” is an invitation to the imagination. On a thirty-year time horizon, in conditions of radical...

... limits how we apprehend the problematic of race under new conditions of accumulation and changes in technological temporal objects? Might we not see race as more than a problem of globalization or imperialism? Have shifts in technological resources and, by extension, university discourse, altered...