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...Gil Anidjar Abstract Were one to trust the experts of “the risk society,” and the countless volumes that take risk as their object, one might conclude that we have lost sight of danger. How secure is the distinction? This essay registers the discursive proliferation that has surrounded risk...

...Manu Samnotra Abstract This essay uses the political writings of Hannah Arendt to explore the virtue of courage. Courage is regarded as a risk taken in the pursuit or defense of some normative end. But what does political courage look like when, as an outgrowth of neoliberal optimism, our sense...

...Rodrigo De La Fabián Abstract This essay offers a critical history, in the Foucauldian sense, of the contemporary hegemony of resilience as a new risk-management technology. Its hypothesis is that resilience is a new way of conjoining biopolitics with thanatopolitics or sovereign power...

..., there is a risk that Italy will once again perform the role of a political avant-garde: that it will export to Europe a sovereign populism of a new kind that is nonetheless in continuity with disquieting features of the worst past. The essay performs a close reading of the programmatic speech that Minister...

.... Their essays track forms of resistance to the work of debt. © 2021 Rocío Zambrana 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). debt austerity decolonial feminism citizen debt audit risk Shariana Ferrer-Núñez...

... perspective was never present, and it seems that no one said anything similar to what we would have said. The conversation about risk is highly mathematized; it has been effectively co-opted by statistics. But we should not forget that it hides a philosophical component, specifically related to value. Swedish...

... to get closer to the boat and assess the situation to determine how critical it is and to prioritize which boats need rescuing first. If the planes are low enough, they can also film and photograph the situation in more detail, which they use to advocate for urgent rescue. The risk of this, however...

... are deemed dangerous to this securitizing apparatus? How might differing conceptions of safety come into play in places like UC Berkeley, where the university aims to protect the speech of right-wing invited speakers whose rhetoric poses real risks to the safety of others, namely queer and trans students...

... of this discourse in the country's political and activist history. 2 Since its beginnings, the Campaign also emphasized that the criminalization of abortion entails unnecessary risks to people's health and lives. Its first proposed law maintained that complications from abortion were the primary cause...

... of unforeseen modes of capture). 64 Very briefly, I use “neoliberalism” to designate a governmental rationality that aims to produce “practices and subjectivities enabling the generalized outsourcing and individualization of risk.” 65 Risk is meant to signify a state of insecurity that is both...

... by such internal critiques is to risk prizing purity over people who desperately need a place. From the space of the university, we bear witness to truth. Beyond critiques of scientific thought as an instrument of empire, or of Enlightenment knowledge as dominance, Timothy Snyder's simple and chilling “Post...

...: without it we would die rapidly, but in the course of it, we could inhale or ingest something that puts our survival at risk. Exchange is thus for us a necessity and also a threat. This is why in human societies the encounter with others is often mediated by the exchange of gifts to assert peaceful...

... thus risk the decay of the body, even its death. In this way, they politicize the body. The practice of hunger striking is not uniform across time and space. It derives its particular meaning from the historical, material context in which it is situated. Writing about the praxis of the Death Fast...

... for decolonization, which is a much broader project. I have interpreted this project as one of risk-taking, of feminism, of intersectionality. It is 2016, and I return to Wits University as an honors student and a tutor for first-year sociology students. I am angry. I am enraged. The FMF movement left many...

... that have transpired in Afghanistan, their quantifications, or thick (or even thin) descriptions of the serial deaths, sufferings, hardships, and forms of degradation over the past forty-five years of serial war. 2 Those tasks are important, albeit exhausting. More critically, such a recounting risks...

... that would seal his body off from the world. 14 So, as in the cases of scholars at risk, endangered scholars, threatened schools of critical thought: it is always the living being who questions, and the elimination of the question strikes at the life of the one who questions. Perhaps we can think...

... in knowledge and prospective assumptions is profoundly unsettled by complexity, chaos, and contradictions. These situations are complex because their uncertainty cannot be managed statistically through risk, nor can a single viewpoint offer a complete overview; chaotic because these are moments that sit...

... available to the unknown is part of sexual probing, sexual exploration, then none of us start as fully self-conscious, deliberate, and autonomous individuals when we consent. How do we understand this not knowing as not only part of any sexual formation, but a continuing risk of sexual encounter, even...

... with sustainable, transformative love? 16 The P4W Memorial Garden aspires to become a place for growing abolition in the prison capital of Canada. But given the endless capacity of capitalism to appropriate, sanitize, and monetize the suffering of others, the garden is also at risk of being used to rebrand...

...' edge. Read together, these interactions teach us about risk, visibility, and regeneration: the urban and the ocean are connected; the impending Blackness of cities is inseparable from the middle passage; the imagined encroachment of Black, trans, and Black trans people threatens to overwhelm hegemonic...