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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 218–226.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the commentaries included here highlight a key aspect of López's book: that, as the author herself puts it, “feminism is a land of great political experimentation,” and that the alliances and complicities between struggles against different types of sexual, racial, class, and neoliberal oppression prove...
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Published: 01 December 2021
figure 2 . “The land is for the hands that liberate it.” ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Muzayyin, PLO Unified Information (1980). Source: The Palestine Project Archive. More
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 570–602.
Published: 01 December 2022
... directly intervene in state claims to biopolitical and territorial sovereignty imposed via the settler metonymy that conflates the Mapuche body and land in order to dispossess them of a “proper” relation with land. In arguing that the Mapuche hunger strike is also an embodied and discursive precedent...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 319–325.
Published: 01 August 2024
... in places other than their historical homelands? How might the practices of people in the context of forced mobility, who aspire to cross a border to elsewhere or to return to their homes, be reflective of something other than the desire to settle in a land? [email protected] © 2024 Natalia...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (3): 519–536.
Published: 01 December 2024
... insurgency in saltwater, and can this insurgency take us beyond a focus on dry land, its material resources, and its cosmological meanings? Drawing on years of active involvement in and research on sea-centered movements of solidarity in the Mediterranean, including efforts to challenge the embargo in Gaza...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 565–576.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in favor of the right. This inaugurated a period of steady ascension of the right, the intensification of settlement rhetoric and practice, the consolidation of Jewish nationalist values in relation to the Land of Israel, and the escalation of efforts to exclude and delegitimize Palestinians...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 562–564.
Published: 01 December 2021
... supremacy over Palestinians in their land. By declaring the “Land of Israel”—that is, the land of historic Palestine—to be the “historical homeland of the Jewish people,” and by absenting Palestinians from the law's purview, the new Nation-State Law secures in legal writing what has been impossible...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 271–288.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Gregorio's ambiguous use of the present tense, points to the uncertain historical status of Mestizo-owned agrarian estates, or haciendas, in the region. Forced agrarian and domestic labor on such estates was formally abolished in 1953, but these buildings, and racial and landed hierarchies rooted in earlier...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 413–435.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... As Haitian and Vodouvi, we carry the memory and living experience of these ancestors; we remember the violence against them, as they are us and a branch of our ancestry. Vodouvi should make it a point to promote the heritage of those who lived on the land and who early on fused with those who were brought...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 321–325.
Published: 01 August 2021
... and nonexistence. This legislative act, in its draconian logic, stripped black inhabitants of more than 87 percent of fertile land and reallocated it to a minority group. The haunting specter of this dispossession cannot be understated, for a century later it still organizes and determines how the black South...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 577–587.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., which has constitutional status. The law determines that “the Land of Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people” and that “the exercise of the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish People.” The law then moves to enshrine the Jewish symbols...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 632–644.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Africa, youth unemployment is just under 75 percent, hunger is endemic, and millions are without decent housing. The struggle for urban land has become the most intense site of conflict between the state and the people it aims to govern. In some parts of the country, such as Durban, a city that has...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 326–331.
Published: 01 August 2024
.... They are a significant part of the imperial project to remake the land, people, and global order according to the Western figure of the human and through categorical divisions in the order of the Western ontological hierarchy. Materially and discursively, the humanizing project seeks to violently mold relations...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 356–362.
Published: 01 August 2024
... peoples and homelands between Mexico and the United States. Land dispossession on both sides of the border accelerated after 1853, with the United States promoting railroad construction, mining, and property sale to settlers. It was not until the 1980s that a barbed wire fence was constructed...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 559–565.
Published: 01 December 2020
... toward greater and more radical demands that address the fundamental problems movements like COLA are trying to address. For us, it has always been about police brutality and the state-sanctioned violence inflicted on Black and Brown people. Our struggles have always been about land and food, against...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2024
.... (excerpt from Reunión: Language or Death , 2020) | | | | | Caístulo lives on Wichí Indigenous land, near the border between Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. When he was eighty years old and the pandemic was just starting, he fell into a coma on the monte . After eleven hours he woke up...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 109–120.
Published: 01 April 2022
... War, universities were part of the “‘counter-revolution’ of capital and property against abolitionism and reconstruction.” 5 Universities and colleges significantly expanded across the United States after 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, the so-called Land-Grant...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 382–397.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to each other?”)—ostensibly a gesture that reaches across the entrenched Pandit-Muslim divide and perhaps holds the promise of future coexistence on land beloved by both. Beyond this opening moment, the film also represents Jalali's own effort to register and enshrine in memory Kashmiri Pandit belonging...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 517–529.
Published: 01 December 2021
...” 12 due to complicated tax and property laws. The latter element is particularly important as it is linked to Marx's 1853 vision of history, which I will discuss in more detail further on. Let us just note here that the absence of private, landed property was understood as an absence of class...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 332–336.
Published: 01 August 2024
... the right. In Judge Curiel's words, “Defendant has offered no source of law exempting him from the prohibitions set forth in 8 U.S.C. sec. 1326.” This is the immigration law version of Justice Marshall's opinion in Johnson v. M'Intosh (ruling that Native Americans held no title to land), which states...