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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 595–616.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Translated by Ramsey McGlazer In March 2020 when word of the threat posed by COVID-19 reached the Tikmũ’ũn, memories immediately surfaced. These were memories of old histories and of how, in the past, the ancestors of today's Tikmũ’ũn were almost wiped out by the diseases brought by whites. Millennial...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 289–303.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., which ensues when “the ego coincides with the ego ideal.” What if some losses do not make us melancholic but manic? Is it possible to make history by losing history? Settler mania incites Indigenous melancholia by displacing responsibility for children's deaths from church and state to parents who...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 128–152.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Amy Allen Abstract Although Rosa Luxemburg is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance, much of the current discussion of her work fails to contend with her commitment to a rather orthodox reading of the Marxist theory of history. This article argues that all of the features that make Luxemburg's work...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 330–337.
Published: 01 August 2019
... to be radically interrupted, disconnected ( ausgeschaltet ). This deposing of law and ultimately of state violence appears as the highest task and moral obligation to which the critique of violence gives rise. And it is violence that is needed for the completion of this task, which would open history onto...
View articletitled, Law, Violence, <span class="search-highlight">History</span>: A Brief Reading of the Last Paragraph of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 300–311.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Deniz Yonucu; Talin Suciyan Abstract The author of The Armenians in Modern Turkey , historian Talin Suciyan, puts the Armenian genocide survivors at the center of her research to provide a new perspective on the history of the Turkish Republic. Suciyan analyzes the experiences and lives of its...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 December 2021
...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...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 345–358.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Kee Howe Yong Abstract This essay describes and analyzes a historical situation of loss in Thailand's far south since the annexation of the Sultanate of Patani by Siam and its recurring conflict since the late 1940s. What was felt to be lost for my Malay Muslim interlocutors was a history...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 April 2019
... 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...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 263–267.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Françoise Vergès Abstract This article draws from Françoise Vergès's book, Le ventre des femmes: Capitalisme, racialisation, féminisme , * which traces the history of the colonization of the wombs of Black women by the French state in the 1960s and 1970s through forced abortions and the forced...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 645–662.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Lena Meari; Samera Esmeir; Ramsey McGlazer Abstract This interview with Lena Meari considers the history and present of Palestinian hunger strikes. Meari reflects on the political and theoretical dimensions of hunger strikes by Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli colonial prisons...
View articletitled, “You're Not Defeated as Long as You're Resisting”: Palestinian Hunger Strikes between the Singular and the Collective: An Interview with Lena Meari
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 119–127.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Susana Draper; Daffne Valdés Vargas; Paula Cometa Stange; Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem; Marlena Gittleman Abstract In this interview, Colectivo LASTESIS reflects on the history of the collective and their understanding of feminist performance as a way of expanding different feminist theories...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Willy Thayer; Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby; Ramsey McGlazer Abstract This article offers a synthesis of the book La crisis no moderna de la universidad moderna and reconsiders many of its main claims, without, however, rehearsing the conceptual history that the book develops. These claims bear...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 April 2018
... histories that these strikes continued. These are histories of workers’ struggle as much as of feminist activism, and both Majewska and Rakowska speak to the inseparability of feminist efforts—including work for reproductive justice—from broader anti-capitalist projects in Poland and beyond...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 396–415.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Vilashini Cooppan Abstract This article considers how time, space, and history are mobilized across a contemporary range of debates in postcolonial studies, world literature theory, and memory studies. The time-maps surveyed all revolve around Eurochronology and its contestations, and range from...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 73–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
... never explicitly acknowledged colonial histories. What is needed, instead, this article suggests, is consideration of the very implications of the “colonial modern”—that is, an acknowledgement of the colonial constitution of modernity—for Frankfurt School critical theory's idea of historical progress...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 389–416.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in the present requires a comparative account of the problem of colonialism that embraces both the history of assimilation and the history of difference in a way that survives colonial assimilation. [email protected] © 2021 Suren Pillay 2021 This is an open access article distributed under...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 244–256.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Emily Ng Abstract The history of modern China has been filled with loss in many senses. From certain angles of vision, loss, remembrance, and forgetting orbit around figures of political repression in the People's Republic of China (PRC), particularly that of censorship. These approaches posit...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 227–243.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., that of the survivor. And, because Bataille stopped precisely where he proposed to write about Franz Kafka, the present article announces and introduces an attempt to situate Kafka in the (European) history of sovereignty. [email protected] [email protected] © 2023 Marc Nichanian 2023...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 464–492.
Published: 01 December 2023
... 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...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 284–312.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of critique in jazz and by implication in many other forms. Abolition pedagogy pursues a transformative orientation to histories of violence, asking how to sustain strategies for their unmaking. © 2021 Kelly Gillespie and Leigh-Ann Naidoo 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms...
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