...Claudio Lomnitz Duke University Press 2007 d o x a at l a r g e Foundations of the Latin American Left Claudio Lomnitz Specters of the past haunt every...

..., I thank Andrew Gilbert, Kelly Gillespie, Jessica Greenberg, and Elana Shever for their crucial intellectual friendship and support. Complexio Oppositorum: Notes on the Left in Neoliberal Italy Andrea Muehlebach...

...Gerald Frug The loss of faith in democracy is fueled by critiques from both the Left and the Right. This manifesto briefly describes and responds to these two critiques. 2013 democracy and citizenship: MANIFESTO Democracy’s Future...

...Tejaswini Niranjana Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 “Left to the Imagination”: Indian Nationalisms and Female Sexuality in Trinidad Tejaswini Niranjana...

...Alex Gourevitch It is safe to say that the politics of fear, that doomed project of national rejuvenation through fear and emergency, is in the past . But past in what sense? The answer depends on the response to another question: what are the alternatives offered by the Left that could provide...

... of inclusiveness, such a focus unravels the key tension between, on the one hand, progressive and left-wing calls to promote the allegedly equal, universal citizen in Turkey through protest movements and, on the other hand, the differential property regime on which the Turkish nation-state is founded, the denial...

... possibilities of cure, ones in which we are left without tidy endings. The task, then, of a critique of curative reason is to clarify these limits, precisely so that we are able to imagine cure otherwise. Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 5 On this point, see the work of the historian Charles...

... of the policeman’s club or bullet, without losing sight of the bodies left in those weapons’ wake. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 anti-Blackness James Baldwin law and literature I think that one thing that remains constant for me is that the system—the prison industrial complex—isn’t...

... and necessary caution to be taken in these discussions, especially in cries to move beyond the current discourse and practice of “diversity.” The hollowness of diversity initiatives within academic institutions has left the authors weary. Weary from being tokenized as students/academics, holding the burden...

... into account. The contribution of postcolonial studies to an understanding of the historicity of societies that were colonized by their metropoles, and of the colonial legacies left behind, thus appears limited from the point of view of a historical sociology of politics inspired by Marx and Weber. Copyright...

.... The sensibilities of Cold War technopolitical projects are continually rematerialized in contemporary computational security projects. Left unchallenged, their durability will continue to increase in tandem with the national security state's continued investment in computational social scientific projects...

...Ajantha Subramanian From 1951 to 2008, India moved toward an embrace of caste quotas, or reservations, as a necessary mechanism of recompense and redistribution. At the same time, the focus on the appropriate criteria for determining “backwardness” left largely unaddressed the social bases...

... RETORT responds to its critics with a deep appreciation but also with a need to assert the broad purposes and character of Afflicted Powers as a polemical survey and provocation in which the authors challenge the Left to recover from its two decades of panic over the dangers of “totalization...

... such a repressive policy toward Muslim women was unanimously embraced by the conservative majority and some left-wing leaders with so little protest. It aims at underscoring the specific phenomena that, on the basis of a new “orientalism,” contribute in France to institutionalizing a category of people on the basis...