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... by which to question the whole neoliberal order at the very moment in which patriarchal violence had begun to be recognized as fundamental to it. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License 2018 This is an open access article distributed under...

...Pinjra Tod Abstract In the fall of 2019, Pinjra Tod (Break the Cage), an autonomous collective of women students working to ensure secure, affordable, and non-discriminatory accommodation for women students throughout Delhi, joined forces with other student organizations to coordinate a joint...

... of the current conjuncture. © 2021 Robin Celikates 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Étienne Balibar violence non-violence politics civility Throughout his wide-ranging work, Étienne Balibar has sought...

... to enhance violence especially, but not only, against minorities. Violence poses a special problem for democracy to the extent that democratic states are assumed to rest on the consent of the governed, and democracy is seen as a means to resolve and reconcile differences in a non-violent manner...

... as the realm of violence . Hence the impossibility of civility . Anti-violence has no beginning outside violence; it starts at a certain point, in a certain place within violence itself. Hence, anti -violence is not reducible to non violence. It is certainly not true that resistance is always possible...

... [world], divine non-violence [ göttliche Gewaltlosigkeit ] is higher than divine violence.” 9 Just as the absence of a third term mediating between law and justice becomes evident when Benjamin's opening observations are compared with Hegel's Philosophy of Right or Cohen's Ethics of Pure...

... a metaphysical antithesis (a risk I always perceive to some extent in the idea of “non-violence”), but rather a mobile and metamorphic contradiction, a second-order conflict. Violence can be, therefore, either “civilized” or “barbaric.” I am perfectly aware that there is something impossible, however...

... Strike .” In The Essential Rosa Luxemburg , edited by Scott Helen , 111 – 182 . Chicago : Haymarket Books , 2008 . Martel James . “ Walter Benjamin and the General Strike: Non-Violence and the Archeon .” In The Meanings of Violence , edited Raea Gavin and Ingala Emma...

... these incidents are fewer in Italy, similar cases continue to emerge there, such as that of the repeated sexual violence toward a thirteen-year-old girl by a group of young men linked with organized crime ( ’ndrangheta ) in Melito, a commune in the south of Italy. 7 What contributed to the launch of the Non...

...-state understanding of politics with respect to its experience of state violence and war, but feminist groups from Turkey have also become more radical in the sense of taking a more non-institutional position, since the AKP has closed down all formal institutions established by women and has prosecuted...

... at the world in an asymmetrical, translating violence. 34 And yet this violence, and the form of the subject that subtends and articulates it, is neither exceptional nor atypical: it is the entirely banal—the wholly non-exceptional—violence of the racializing sociality of hermeneutic whiteness, where...

... looted, confiscated, and lost, along with farmlands, businesses, and places of worship. This dispossession continued in the state violence against non-Muslims in the Republic of Turkey. In 1942, the “wealth tax” was imposed, ostensibly to close the state deficit that Turkey incurred during World War II...

... of violence addresses only “war violence” without considering the violence of every law: “the decay of parliaments has turned just as many minds away from the ideal of a non-violent resolution of political conflicts as were earlier drawn to it by the war. Standing opposed to the pacifists are the Bolsheviks...

...Anne-Lise François Abstract This article offers a partial commentary on the figures of parenthetical or bracketed power in paragraphs 12 and 13 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence.” Performing its own bracketing of the central question of the general strike, it focuses instead...

... that there was much that Sithole's book brought to the fore about the cartographies of blackness and the theorization of black (non)existence. Here, Monoa, Tshepo Masango Chéry, and I extend that initial exploration of the implications of Sithole's work. In her commentary on the book, “The Black Manifesto for Our...

... woman, I have felt the hostility, cynicism, and denigration of being a Black woman in the United States and Puerto Rico.” 46 Confronted with the reality of antiblack violence, Rivera maintains that non-Black Puerto Rican women expose their fear of Blackness, whether light or dark skin. She finds...

..., it is important . . . to talk about violences. The violence of racism, usurpation, the non-recognition of political rights and farmers' [rights], of poverty and that which it has been able to effectuate from the Mapuche world.” 27 All of these violences lie at the intersection of body and land, of the state's...

..., deliberated and enigmatically decided to persist in their historical effort to continue to be a people , despite living in a continent of deserters, like ours—a continent claimed by those who have deserted their non-white ancestry and their belonging to an Amefrican, human, and historical landscape. Even...

... have claimed and embodied the fallist identity. 2 I write, perhaps, as one of the quieter voices in contemporary student activism in South Africa, and I show that decolonial work can happen in the street and on the web; that it can be explicit or implicit; that it can entail revolutionary violence...

... expanding, questioning, and perhaps reconstituting itself. From studies of the imbrication of modern European thinkers with settler colonialism and colonialism to the study of non-European, Indigenous, and minoritized thinkers, the gates of the discipline are no longer as closed. This expansion, however...