...Ajay Skaria Abstract In conversation with the work of Qadri Ismail, this essay explores the figure of the minor. It suggests that Ismail and others have given that figure a distinctive torsion by imbuing it with the moral aspiration for a freedom and equality no longer centered on sovereignty...

... of capital thus offer proof, Segato argues, that, far from being residual, minor, or marginal, the question of gender—of the patriarchal order—is the cornerstone and center of gravity of all forms of power. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International...

...Michael Allan Abstract This essay tracks Karl Marx's famous line “They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented” as it travels from a translated epigraph in Edward Said's Orientalism to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's “Can the Subaltern Speak?” What follows from this minor textual detail...

... in their multiplicity. Djebar's texts present no binary opposition between silence and voice; in the continuous search for the voices of colonized women, voice and silence are inextricably intertwined. In Shibli's Minor Detail , as in many of Djebar's texts, the search for voices takes the form of a journey backward...

...-right racialized nationalism. Further, they report on the horrific stories emerging from Kashmir: stories of the detention and torture of minors and young men, arbitrary midnight raids, and constant threats and danger of sexual violence against women by the armed forces. They articulate the present...

... in the broadest sociopolitical context, as a minor part or element of a greater instrument of control: rape itself. Through a consideration of a series of violations committed in Argentina, some by civilians, others by agents of the state during the country's last civico-military dictatorship, Moreno illustrates...

...-nouveau-scanner-pour-detecter-les-ia0b0n1203003 . Lendaro Annalisa . “ Minor to the Bone? The Children's Judge and the Age of the Young Foreigner through the Prism of the Bone Test .” Ethnologie française 178 , no. 2 ( 2020 ): 377 – 89 . Mbembe Achille . “ Necropolitics .” Public...

... such a politics of the minor cannot be reduced to a specific minority, it requires a constant shift between the political and the social and therefore necessarily introduces a sociological element in order to prevent the erasure of the minor through the major(ity). In other words, in order to achieve political...

... function as the presumptive religion of a secular state that then identifies non-Christian religious minorities. The task is not to destroy secularism, but to understand its modes of regulatory and generative power, its ways of imposing a differential value scheme on religions, in order to then come up...

... and developed an idea of ethics as an embodied and relational practice. In Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report , an ethnography of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority, Mahmood deepened her exploration of how secular strategies delimit modern religions, including their differences, conflicts...

..., and making religion more rather than less salient to minority and majority identities alike.” 1 I don't now remember what advice I gave her, but I do remember long, engaged conversations about relating the concrete details she had assembled (dates, texts of laws and diplomatic conventions, appeals...

... organizations arose during the nineteenth century to serve as slave patrols, border patrols, and later, strike-breaking forces. Historically, they have targeted racial minorities, poor populations, disabled people, as well as those perceived as breaking normative boundaries of gender and sexuality. Campus...

... characteristics. Central to this mode of imagining and preserving the nation is a rejection of minorities, who are perceived as threats to the survival and integrity of the ethnic nation and against whom the majority must mobilize. Ethnic democracy implies a two-tiered conception of citizenship, with the majority...

..., and disappearances by the police and armed forces, especially but not only in conflict areas. In addition, there are the organized massacres in which members of the ruling party have played a leading role, targeting minorities like Sikhs (in Delhi in 1984) and Muslims (in Gujarat in 2002). 15...

... countries was ineffective. 7 Labeled the “neoliberal opportunity bargain,” it meant that the “the state's role was limited to creating opportunities for people through education to become marketable in the global competition.” It had only ever worked for a minority of graduates and was becoming less...

..., to some extent proved that Burroughs and Pasolini were right. And so is Edelman. The repression and sublimation of anal enjoyment are Fascist archetypes, and the Child of the heterosexual couple, the Baby, the Minor, is the worst enemy of the figure who is thus made into the apocalyptic representative...

... and the impossible position in which it puts religious minorities, offers such a glimmer: “The ideal of interfaith equality might require not the bracketing of religious differences but their ethical thematization as a necessary risk when the conceptual and political resources of the state have proved inadequate...

... offered a defense of proletarian mass democracy against the democratically veiled class violence of the dictatorship of the bourgeois minority. 1 He later engaged with Marxism's troubled relationship to violence—at once critically analyzed in accounts of the structural role of violence in the genesis...

... foregrounding minor practices of expression, however, Blue Sky from Pain offers no humanist allegory of the spirit's triumph over carcerality. On the contrary, its gaze is a stark rendering of the biopolitical capture that is spatialized in detention camps. Its narrative also obliquely interrogates...

... on the internet through a simple Google search, by reproducing them and/or by providing citations to them on the internet. 52. Following Scarry, I call the power in question illusory and/or fictional, not to suggest that the violence inflicted on the Kurdish minority in Turkey is not “real...