...Anila Daulatzai; Sahar Ghumkhor Abstract What does it mean for mourning and racial melancholia to inhabit (and exceed) the geography of Afghanistan, structured by serial wars and serial foreign occupations? As Afghans are subjected to immense forms of loss, what forms of melancholia take hold...

...]; those of four wheels, standby generators and booming economic growth and those of daladala [minibus] users, lengthy blackouts and everlasting inflation. 1 In the early 2010s, power loss in Dar es Salaam repeatedly undercut the idea that Tanzanians' lives were developing, that their economy...

...Milad Odabaei Abstract Conventional accounts of the 1979 Iranian revolution emphasize the loss of the revolution's “true” spirit in the violence of the Islamic state. In contrast, this essay foregrounds a recurring dream of parricide in the generation of children of revolutionaries to explore...

... family being charred. When I'd try to pour water on them from my bottle, I'd discover that it was empty. I'd try to throw sand on them, but I would smell that stench again and wake up. ( CW , 118) In these scenes the mghaysil is no longer a site to sculpt loss but becomes a site...

...Deepti Misri Abstract This article examines the memorial aesthetics of loss in Madhulika Jalali's documentary film Ghar ka Pata ( Home Address , 2021). The article examines the documentary as a memory project made by a Kashmiri Pandit filmmaker of the “1.5 generation”—a woman who left Kashmir...

...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...

...Mary Louise Pratt Abstract This essay examines how two very different thinkers address the question of how to live loss. The first is the Canadian Cree artist and writer Tomson Highway, author most recently of Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordians , and the second is US...

...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...

...Sophie Chao Abstract This essay considers the multiscalar manifestations of loss and the destruction of loss through the material-semiotic figure of “spent earth,” a toxic waste by-product generated by the industrial bleaching of crude oils into edible oils. Drawing on two distinct encounters...

...Christopher Bracken Abstract On May 27, 2021, the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation reported the discovery of 215 unmarked graves on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. Their first response was mourning for the loss of young lives; their second response...

...Amaryah Shaye Armstrong Abstract This essay argues that critiques of redemption in contemporary black theory necessitate a rethinking of black theology in terms of loss so as to upend the political theological order of redemption and damnation that justifies antiblack governance of thought...

... practices respond to what is irrecoverable in loss, in contrast to dominant discussions on material restitution as a process that always projects a reversibility of past injuries and that remains limited to the logic of possession. The article argues that these practices pose an aesthetic challenge...

... recently made. The essay understands Guha's century-long political and intellectual journey as a metonym for our times, marked by an agonistic and unpredictable interplay of multiple pasts, losses, emergences, and futures. prathama@csds.in Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023...

..., that little-recognized thinker of danger. It was Freud who located loss—and the mother—at the center of what he strikingly called the “danger-situation.” ga152@columbia.edu © 2023 Gil Anidjar 2023 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND...

... the public sphere as shared. Mourning, as dueling, is the construction of history through the registration, naming, and recognition, not only of the loss, but also of what was lost with that loss. Finally, historicizing is the only practice that can prevent repetition; as mourning does, it opens up...

... Inside raises the problem of locating the end or loss of life, the border between life and its other side. If death is borne “inside” life, as the exhibit's French title La mort dans l’âme intimates, then what do these watercolor images represent? What is the emergence of death from within life...

... kinds of loss, distributed asymmetrically throughout Chilean society. Therefore, considering the neoliberal slogan “Chile winner” ( Chile ganador ), my text is an invitation to think about the (economic and emotional) losers left behind by a model that promotes an excess of individualism. Those losers...

... in these movements from the start, she contends. Quite strategically, however, the NUM (Ni Una Menos) movement transforms the force of mourning into desire, that slippery impulse that manages to bring together a political sisterhood emerging out of loss. This fundamental attachment between mourning and desire—which...

..., in not expecting that they will convince everybody. But of what does Asad want to persuade us? Asad wishes to alert his audience to the possible loss of a world where every problem does not have to have a solution for us humans to discover, where calculations of obligations are complex and not amenable to easy...

... neither money, nor valuables, nor papers. Nor was anybody responsible for our survival. We were free, but. . . . The term stateless came to encompass this sense of dispossession and negation, this loss of identity. It connotes the hiding and lying, the fear of discovery, the feeling, when we finally...