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Imagining Not One Less
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 254–261.
Published: 01 April 2022
... on infrastructures of power. 5 This embodied relation, this agentive vulnerability, can be seen as the condition of possibility of resistance in certain contexts. The dynamic of vulnerability and victimhood undergirds many Latin American feminist movements, where challenges to patriarchy is connected to other...
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Feminine Desire, Feminist Politics
Open Access
Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of politics born of embodied experience and because of her sensitivity to the ways in which claims around women's victimhood at once render the movement legible under the liberal guise of capitalism and impede it from positing its own agency. For example, López warns of the facility with which the movement's...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 435–465.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Riddell captions his satirical image of the child “swarm,” a quote from then–UK prime minister David Cameron, whose racist, securitarian phantasm of migrants is evidently belied by the tiny, singular figure of victimhood ( fig. 1 ). Alan Kurdi has become a lasting emblem of the refugee “crisis,” thereby...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 382–397.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... Johar, “Hierarchization of Victimhood,” 58 . 24. Datta, On Uncertain Ground , 22 . 25. Here we refer specifically to long-standing Kashmiri Pandit demands for separate securitized townships, putatively to keep them feeling safe from the larger Kashmiri Muslim population. 26. Kaul...
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Alterable Geographies: In/Humanity, Emancipation, and the Spatial Poetics of Lo Abigarrado in Bolivia
Open Access
Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 271–288.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of hacienda colonos with sheer victimhood, Quechua farmers like Gregorio instead insisted on reclaimed attachments to the spaces of earlier labor subjection. They thereby articulated plotlines considered impossible under slavery and servitude: grounded forms of belonging based on connections to land...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 304–323.
Published: 01 August 2023
....” 7. See Fanon, “Colonial War and Mental Disorder” ; Obeyesekere, Work of Culture ; Pandolfo, Knot of the Soul . 6. Freud, “Thoughts for the Times.” See also Rose, Why War? ; Butler, “Political Philosophy in Freud.” 5. On politics of victimhood, see Brown, States...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 370–395.
Published: 01 December 2019
... general feelings of racial victimhood are condensed into their particular postcolonial vulnerability. Similar processes are underway elsewhere. In Britain, what's left of the left, or what is imagined to supply the backbone of resistance to these rebranded post- and neofascisms is either disoriented...
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Exploratory Notes on the Origins of New Fascisms
Open Access
Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 33–67.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... This reference, nevertheless, effects a peculiar self-objectification along with emancipation and gives rise to what is observable in liberal political discourse as a desire for victimhood even on the side of the most privileged. In times when direct dominium over people is legally prohibited, such “wounded...
