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... social movement articulated itself as a response to the violence inflicted on the idea of a university, alongside the attack on Muslim citizenship rights. In the process, participants speaking from the many protest sites used the metaphor of a “death-in-life” that made the category of the Indian Muslim...

... content: the ouroboros for eternity, the butterfly for the soul’s shedding of the body and transition into the eternal life, the olive and palm branches as symbols of peace and the victory over evil respectively, burning and extinguished torches as symbols of life and death. One of the most striking...

... historical moment of danger, what Sigmund Freud termed “the times on war and death” (273)? In cultivating an ethics of listening to, and learning to speak with, the dead, how can we attend to the gravitas of this encounter, in which we are inherently implicated, both consciously and unconsciously? In our...

...Antoinette Burton Abstract This article introduces a roundtable that consists of short reflections on Stuart Hall’s posthumously published memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands . Written in collaboration with Bill Schwarz and completed after his death, the genre-defying text...

...Saidiya Hartman Response The DeadBook Revisited Saidiya Hartman The question returns again: how do we attend to black death? How do we find life where only the traces ofdestruction remain? What is required to wit­ ness the murder oftwo girls on board a slave ship as it crossed the Atlantic in 1792...

....” This paradigm shift shakes up our frozen narratives of the history of modernity and draws our attention to new structures of feeling and modes of engaging with the past, in our time of the present. The end to the human world, as we have known it historically , brings intimations of death to some, for example...

...Suraj Yengde Our current pandemic, like the horror of caste, is pessimism clouded with the opportunism of death. Dalits, instead, have refused such opportunism and extended a collective possibility of a different world. Despite their lack of resources—the continuous violations of poverty...

... Katherine McKittrick has called a mathematics of unwillingness, which, if deployed without care, reproduces rather than honors Black death. What interests me here is what such accounts take as the proper form of memory and memorialization. If mathematical accounting is insufficient, what more careful mode...

...Brian Connolly; Marisa Fuentes Introduction: From Archives of Slavery to Liberated Futures? Brian Connolly and Marisa Fuentes Put differently, how does one rewrite the chronicle ofa death foretold and anticipated, as a collective biography ofdead subjects, as a counter­ history ofthe human...

... point out that the limit Kurd­ ish women occupy is different from the limit between life and death that Antigone occupies and I discuss what feminist politics from these limits looks like. Even when Kurdish women's speech and deeds are unintelligible to sovereign power they are constitutive of new...

... the aggrieved family as pathogenic. Around the same time, the armed forces renewed their offensive against the rebelling militants and the number of real and fake encounters increased. While the pandemic meted out death copiously, it also aided a conspiracy to take away martyrdom—the death that is celebrated...

... herselfsees no contradiction whatsoever between the humane treatment of animals and their slaughter. For her, a humane death is a form ofkindness: "I am often asked how I can care about animals and be involved in their slaughter. People forget that nature can be harsh. Death at the slaughter plant is quicker...

... sealed her status as commodity. The random collection of details ofwhich I have made use are the same descriptions, verbatim quotes, and trial transcripts that consigned her to death and made murder "not much noticed;' at least, according to the surgeon. The promiscuity of the archive begets a wide array...

... possible the project of their thought in the academy. The crisis that Lloyd describes has haunted the reflections on the state of settler colonial studies that have emerged in the wake of the death of Australian historian Patrick Wolfe. The most critical of these reflections have sought to redress...

... the five hundredth anniversary of Müntzer’s death and the effective end of the German Peasants’ War. The war itself, the largest European popular revolt before the French Revolution, was not a circumscribed event, but rather the culmination of a series of local uprisings that had convulsed German-speaking...

... Formation, 1780–1870 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2004 . Patterson Orlando . Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1982 . Price Richard . Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas . Garden City, NY...

... with death: an acknowledgment of it—the subjects are long gone—and a way of cheating it—bringing them back to life: “To speak of the dead means to deny death and almost to defy it” (47). In The Archaeology of Knowledge , Foucault wrote that the archive was constituted by “discourse itself as practic e” (46...

...;' the essay to which this special issue on slavery and the archive responds.4 One oftwo girls whose deaths aboard the eighteenth - century British slaver Recovery prompted an indictment against the ship's captain, "Venus" is mentioned only tangen­ tially if at all in the several published accounts...

... horizontally, binding the two halves together: "Marriage keeps life going/death ends it/ Marriage can be planned/ but no one can predict death /Blitar 1948;' and, "A marriage is nurtured by and bears forth life and continual growth-human beings should not end their own lives or those of others/Blitar 1951...

..., repression by Editions Robert Laffont. This tome-over eight hundredpages-wasacollectionof essays attempting to produce a worldwide tally of communist victims.Furet had initially been tapped to write the introduction to the book, but after his death in July 1997, the task fell to the editor Stephane Courtois...