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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... is a broader exploration of how “other” languages take place in postcolonial theory—not only Said and Spivak's German, but Abdelfattah Kilito's Italian and Frantz Fanon's Arabic. What is the place of translation in self-representation? How do instances of textual citation complicate the self of self...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... from the work of Sudipta Kaviraj, Partha Chatterjee, and Mahmood Mamdani, the essay proposes an alternative mode of decolonizing political theory that takes as its central aim the generation of theory from the study of postcolonial politics. It argues for a historically attuned and comparative approach...
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Introduction: The Anticolonial Impulse
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 353–358.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of nations, the equality of races, and so on—are now questionable on multiple counts. It is difficult to resurrect an anticolonialism grounded in these and other elements central to the persistence of imperialism itself. We now have the benefit of more than three decades of postcolonial theory, which has...
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Mahdi Amel and the Nonidentical
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 543–551.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of revolution. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the mutual disintegration of Western Marxism and postcolonial thought, the hope for a more comprehensive theory could only appear nostalgic: “History is made of missed encounters, of lost opportunities that leave the bitter taste of melancholia.” 2 Given...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 389–416.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in the university found succor variously in Marxist thought, African anticolonial thought, and postcolonial theory, this moment has enabled some to introduce into the South African debates “decolonial theory,” a particular school of intellectual critique that initially emerged from scholars in Latin America and its...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 73–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., in its broadest sense, includes a variety of traditions of critique from diverse geographical locations. In this article, I will be drawing on critical arguments from the traditions of postcolonialism and decoloniality. These I will apply to the form of critical theory specific to the Frankfurt School...
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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 (2024) 7 (1): 128–152.
Published: 01 April 2024
... backbone for Luxemburg's thought. In the wake of postcolonial, Indigenous, Black, and feminist critiques of the Marxist theory of history, this feature of Luxemburg's work considerably complicates her legacy for contemporary critical theory. [email protected] © 2024 Amy Allen 2024 This is an open...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 478–480.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to postcolonialism in the present. The work of translation here does not simply involve introducing a marginal novelty into mainstream critical theory; rather it is a process of exhuming the elements that are untranslatable in the text—that is, the conceptual problems that have universal implications from within...
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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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On Crystallization
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 187–232.
Published: 01 August 2021
...) he adopts, as it were, an opposition between theory and practice which, paradoxically, ends up reading the aesthetic as the model for the postcolonial state. 39 The assumption that theory cannot see its own ethnocentrism—hence the assumption that ethnos must be hidden for theoria to see...
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Introduction
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 347–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
... . On the Postcolony . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2001 . Weheliye Alexander . Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . 7. Agamben, “We Refugees,” 117 . 6. See Butler...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 475–494.
Published: 01 August 2022
... toward the implementation of a municipal electoral system ( autarquia ) and argue that it poses an Afro-utopian challenge: the issue of autarky, or the recognition of self-organization and self-sufficiency vis-à-vis postcolonial autocratic rule. [email protected] [email protected]...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 509–516.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and truth (as a counter to ideology or power-knowledge regimes) does not exist? Like other contemporary Arabic thinkers of the past century, Amel was committed to rationalism. Further, he understood rationality to be the most fundamental battleground for emancipation in postcolonial societies plagued...
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At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., Foucauldian genealogy, feminist, queer, postcolonial, and decolonial theories. She offers a critical account of “progress” (by delving into two distinct conceptions of progress: one oriented toward the future, the other oriented toward the past) that draws on Adorno and addresses the post- and decolonial...
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Hegemonic Orientalism and Historical Materialism: Karl Marx, Edward Said, and Mahdi Amel
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 517–529.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that rattles devoted Marx scholars to this day—so much so that “Against Said” was almost chosen as a subtitle for a widely read 2010 book on Marx's view of the Global South. 1 Traditional Marxism's opposition to postcolonial criticism should therefore not come as a surprise. In engaging with Said's work, we...
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Thinking across Traditions of Thought
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 450–455.
Published: 01 December 2020
...” ; Kaufman-Osborn, “Political Theory.” 2. Seth, “Postcolonial Critique.” 3. Iqtidar, “Redefining ‘Tradition’” ; Iqtidar, “Searching for Tolerance.” 4. Asad, “Conscripts,” 333 . 5. Iqtidar, Secularizing Islamists? 6. Iqtidar, “ Jizya against Nationalism...
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Exploratory Notes on the Origins of New Fascisms
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2020
... crucial insights in Hannah Arendt's study of the origins of totalitarianism. Arendt's perspective is highly valuable in moving the discussion of fascism beyond the delineation of specific historical events toward a theory of fascist power. The point is to distill from Arendt's insights...
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What Is the University For?
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 39–58.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., not a question. 1 The migratory quality of the discourse that the South potentially names is often neglected. 2 If the migrant is that political subject who leads the way in relinking critical theory and humanistic inquiry in the midst of a cosmopolitanism that is increasingly strained, it does so...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 300–311.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Unaccounted Lives , postcolonial theory has little to offer on the genocidal impulse of historic colonial empires. Sidestepping this impulse according to him means overlooking the colonial expropriation which led ultimately to the killing fields of Europe. 4 Hence, when we place survivors at the center...
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