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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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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 254–261.
Published: 01 April 2022
... cosplay and protecting statues, strategies in what Jack Bratich calls the “war of restoration.” 11 This melancholy display of the right is different from the public mourning of the sort that López discusses in her book. She details the different protests and movements in which women in Latin...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 234–240.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and the green tide—associated with reproductive rights and the pursuit of legal abortion, which was finally passed by the end of 2020—provides another instance of cross-fertilization among mourning, disobedience, and desire. In fact, I would suggest that the victimizing accounts, which remained resiliently...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 151–166.
Published: 01 August 2023
... are asked to consider the question of dignity against market-assigned value. But dignity cannot merely be tied to recuperating what was lost. Instead, Medel asks, how does one interrupt a state and institute new social horizons while asserting a right to mourn? Deepti Misri further investigates...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 218–226.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the Zwi Migdal ring, the desaparecidas , the victims of femicides—but there is not victimization. There are “killjoys” but not amargadas (bitter women), as feminists have often been labeled by anti-rights activists. 7 There is (public) mourning, and if any semblance of melancholia is present...
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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): 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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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 202–211.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to name what type of loss was to be mourned. The repetition of an identifiable loss—the right to education and to work for women—reinforced the imperial assimilationist logic of mourning what Afghans had invested in within a narrative of crisis and loss, thus masking their melancholic state of psychic...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 371–381.
Published: 01 August 2023
... regimes. Those who refused to forget did so as a counterhegemonic political act. Chilean society didn't have the right to memorialize its dead publicly. This unavowed mourning left a feeling of melancholia among Chileans. The forgers of the dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet emerged as the winners...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Marc Crépon; Micol Bez Abstract The object of this article is to show how, at the beginning of his essay “Toward the Critique of Violence,” Walter Benjamin uses the questions of the right to strike and law of war to exemplify the way in which the state monopoly has no other goal than to preserve...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 382–397.
Published: 01 August 2023
... in the Kashmir Valley. 3 The documentary was released only a few months prior to The Kashmir Files (dir. Vivek Agnihori, 2022), the Bollywood film that purported to tell the “true story” of Kashmiri Pandit displacement from Kashmir at the height of the militancy. That film, openly patronized by the right...
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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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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 (2022) 5 (1): 241–248.
Published: 01 April 2022
... respond to López's book here and attempt to draw connections between the Argentinian Ni Una Menos and the Italian Non Una di Meno. Reading Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience, and Desire is first of all part of a process of bearing witness to the emergence and development of a transnational...
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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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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 August 2020
... feminism vulnerability cruelty aesthetics In recent years, we have borne witness to the emergence of what could be characterized as an unprecedented, transnational feminist revolt. The international women's demonstration against an emerging global right-wing hegemony in January 2018...
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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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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and neoconservative right to argue that any attempt to change our present social milieu, marked by injustice and inequality, is utopian, and by “utopian” they mean naive, impractical, impossible. On the other hand, the notion of utopia, as it is implicit—and has been historically imbricated—in colonialist...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 249–253.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of feminism in Peru during the last five years, is inevitable. From a Latin American perspective, it seems that Peru is the caboose of women's rights: one of the last countries of the region to recognize sexual and reproductive rights, with the road still long and difficult toward the recognition of marriage...
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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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