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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 233–262.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to escape their interior, organic lives, and identifies the “life strike” as a form of thanato-mimesis that consists in playing dead and limiting what in organic life is recognizable as such in order to go unnoticed and to interrupt racial interpellations. © 2021 Hourya Bentouhami 2021 This is an open...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 538–569.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Joseph Albernaz Abstract This essay unearths an alternative genealogy of the general strike by tracing the concept's first articulation back to the struggle against Atlantic racial slavery. The famed originator of the general strike idea, the English radical William Benbow, turns out to have...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 632–644.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Richard Pithouse Abstract The meaning of the strike has evolved across space and time. In contemporary South Africa it has come to include the road blockade, which is now a ubiquitous tool of popular politics in general and forms of politics organized from shack settlements in particular...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 618–631.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Cristina Vega; Tara Phillips Abstract Since 2016, feminist mobilizations have reactivated the practice of the strike. Some countries have experienced mass expressions of it; in others, the term was simply adopted and with it a forceful idea: the power of social disruption. Partial strikes were...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 663–687.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Mary Jirmanus Saba Abstract Ten years on from the Arab Revolutions, it is essential that we think critically about the limitations and possibilities of image archives, lest it appear that the image of revolution is all we have left. Could a collection of worker strike photos help? mjirmanus...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 241–262.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Paola Rudan; ∫connessioni Precarie; Non Una di Meno Roma Abstract Commenting on three activist documents on the global women's strike published by the Italian network Non Una di Meno and by the collective ∫connessioni precarie, this text reads the March 8 strike in Italy as part of a transnational...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 268–269.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Ni Una Menos Abstract In this call to strike, the members of Ni Una Menos define the strike as a tool that they reinvent to dismantle the scheme of violence against women. The strike, they write, allows them to map new colonial and imperial forms deployed against women's economies and territories...
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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 (2020) 3 (3): 559–565.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., hundreds of graduate students at Santa Cruz withheld grades, motioning the start of a wildcat strike. When the strike was met with a series of firings, arrests, and other retaliatory charges on the part of the UCSC administration with the full support of Janet Napolitano's UC Office of the President...
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Published: 01 December 2022
figure 1 . Picket of women, girls, and boys at the Flint strike, 1936–37. More
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figure 2 . Strike and occupation of the church of Saint-Nizier. More
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Published: 01 December 2022
figure 3 . Strike in Cayambe, 1930. More
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figures 17–18 . The grief of losing a child doesn't differ in a strike or a revolution. Dar Al Sayyad . More
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Published: 01 December 2022
figures 17–18 . The grief of losing a child doesn't differ in a strike or a revolution. Dar Al Sayyad . More
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 645–662.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Lena Meari; Samera Esmeir; Ramsey McGlazer Abstract This interview with Lena Meari considers the history and present of Palestinian hunger strikes. Meari reflects on the political and theoretical dimensions of hunger strikes by Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli colonial prisons...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 570–602.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ethan Madarieta Abstract This article concerns the ongoing hunger and death strikes of the Mapuche, Indigenous peoples whose territories, or Wallmapu, are currently settler-occupied territories of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. It argues that these hunger strikes are acts...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 444–474.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and the disappropriation of cultural patrimony. Drawing on the voices of different generations of feminists, this article explores the political meanings that striking, work stoppage, and occupation have acquired, and some of the visual and narrative political strategies (including strikethroughs, graffiti, and mural...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 146–148.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Ramsey McGlazer Abstract This special section gathers activist texts and theoretical reflections on the International Women's Strike of March 8, 2017. Contributors from Turkey, Argentina, Poland, and Italy consider the strike's implications and effects, emphasizing the ways in which it both indexes...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 109–120.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Yulia Gilich; Tony Boardman Abstract The demand for a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), made by graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), culminated in the wildcat strikes of 2019–20 across the University of California system. Graduate students made a seemingly...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Marianne Kaletzky; Ramsey McGlazer Abstract This interview considers Polish feminists’ participation in both the Black Monday protests of October 3, 2016, and the International Women's Strike held on March 8, 2017. Majewska and Rakowska attest to the long process of organizing and the ongoing...