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Ayotzinapa: Truth and the Economy of Mourning
Open Access
Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 106–132.
Published: 01 April 2019
... case for mourning as a political right, the article first analyzes Hannah Arendt's argument according to which only forgiveness can change a violent course of action, but in order for forgiveness to be offered, the crime to be pardoned must be precisely named. The article then shows how Judith Butler's...
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Manic History: Losing Children, Losing Memory
Open Access
Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 289–303.
Published: 01 August 2023
...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...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 202–211.
Published: 01 August 2023
...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...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 218–226.
Published: 01 April 2022
... one of the movement's taglines. María Pia López's Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience, and Desire (2021), among the first English accounts from inside the movement, reflects on this phenomenon and serves as a practical tool in current feminist struggles, feeding the very same transnational...
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The Ghost and the Censor: Loss in Parallax
Open Access
Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 244–256.
Published: 01 August 2023
... a link between the Chinese state, national public amnesia, and international transparency that may occlude other configurations of knowing, speaking, and mourning—those of public secrecy, for instance, including stagings of the unspeakable through aesthetic and literary forms. This essay explores...
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Traces
Open Access
Critical Times (2018) 1 (1)
Published: 01 April 2018
... of undocumented migrant crossings, and dystopian landscapes are interwoven with a mournful voice-over enunciated from a different time and place. The fate of the wall is sealed: its remains are to be collected like forensic evidence by a visitor, perhaps another anthropologist and artist, perhaps another...
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A Festive Feminism for Radical Times
Open Access
Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 234–240.
Published: 01 April 2022
... 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...
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Imagining Not One Less
Open Access
Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 254–261.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in the current moment: Who gets to claim victimhood? How do we protest, remember, and mourn the victims of femicide that López writes so movingly about, when the category of victimhood seems to move so easily from those women who are used and discarded as if they were “rubbish,” and reallocated to the privileged...
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The Destruction of Loss: An Introduction
Open Access
Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 151–166.
Published: 01 August 2023
... .” Modern Intellectual History 18 , no. 2 ( 2021 ): 547 – 72 . Eng David L. , and Kazanjian David . “ Introduction: Mourning Remains .” In Loss: The Politics of Mourning , edited by Eng and Kazanjian , 1 – 28 . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2003...
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Feminist Political Imagination
Open Access
Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 262–264.
Published: 01 April 2022
... with the subjective knot that binds politics to imagination, we must acknowledge that the coordinates that enclose the imagination are none other than those of singularity, identity, and the natural. In Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience, and Desire , María Pia López pushes back against these two limitations...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 371–381.
Published: 01 August 2023
... identify? How is loss lived in an allegedly successful country? How do people live with and alongside those who are responsible for murders, disappearances, and torture—the very people who are the winners of the last forty years? What will be the future of mourning in Chilean society? How will it deal...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 382–397.
Published: 01 August 2023
... a blockbuster Bollywood production. The film seems to offer a more searching examination of the losses suffered by Kashmiri Pandits after their displacement from Kashmir. In the current climate of rising authoritarianism in India, many would celebrate Jalali's film as one that mourns Pandit losses without...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 324–344.
Published: 01 August 2023
... freedom. To clarify how I am reading redemption here, I note that the black feminist work that I engage offers an understanding of redemption as a “salvationist principle” or “totalizing narrative” in national romances of black belonging that place an unspeakable interdiction on black mourning. 3...
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Critical Times / The Earth Trembles
Open Access
Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 158–177.
Published: 01 April 2018
... that speaks many languages: the languages of demand and insurgency; of everyday insubordination and the reformulation of public space; of sabotage and mourning; of the land and the street. The aim of this unrest that finds in feminism a new space of political elaboration is the preservation of the fabric...
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The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”
Open Access
Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
... imperatives of patriotism, sacrifice, and so on. The second example concerns mourning. Although it is natural to mourn our loved ones, in times of war it is considered indecent to overtly express one's grief when a soldier is honorably killed on the battlefield. The only legitimate feeling is one of taking...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 304–323.
Published: 01 August 2023
... . “ Political Philosophy in Freud: War, Destruction, and the Critical Faculty .” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis , edited by Gipps Richard G. T. and Lacewing Michael , 727 – 50 . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . Comay Rebecca . Mourning Sickness...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 396–415.
Published: 01 December 2019
... a wake: waves rippling after some ship of violent modernity passes; an aftermath that is also a living-after, as in the twice-grown grass to which “aftermath” still refers in agriculture; a space of mourning opened up by the encounter with the dead; and, also, a growing, flowing surge forward in which...
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Spent Earth
Open Access
Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 179–188.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and fluids of all the beings who inhabit the soil. Here, the landscape and its lifeforms are the landfill. And yet even as it remains unsettlingly amorphous in its toxic sensoriality, spent earth, my Marind friends emphasized, “must be mourned.” 2 Singing, storying, and even touching this dangerous...
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At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do
Open Access
Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in the absence or betrayal of those aspirations? What's the relation between political despair and mourning?” 59 The relation between incommensurable despair and mourning, but also the resistance to enslavement and the yearning for resurrection remain, for Moten, improvisational, aporetic forces at work...
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Feminine Desire, Feminist Politics
Open Access
Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Karen Benezra [email protected] © 2022 Karen Benezra 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience, and Desire is a book about “a movement underway,” as María Pia López...
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