Search Results for political failure

...Julie Y. Chu Abstract This article tracks the ways citizens in the People's Republic of China have come to manage the banality of state violence and impunity by turning common political failures into a distinctive politics of fiasco. As a mode of civilian engagement with officialdom in contemporary...

...Dorothy H. B. Kwek; Robert Seyfert The recent “materialist turn” stresses the fundamental role of nonhumans in the constitution of humans’ social and political life and argues that the inability to grasp their importance dooms normative prognoses for ordering society to ethical, political...

.... The biggest risk of contact-tracing applications is that, in treating the symptoms of the disease rather than addressing its cause, they distract from more systemic failures in our social and political system. What all of us want is to be able to live a meaningful and dignified existence. For better or worse...

...; hip-hop dance arrangements come to integrate militarized rifle drills; protesters use their own brutalized bodies as signs of resistance. At the same time, they use failure of those appeals to impact the international to conduct local political work: they either symbolically assault Myanmar's generals...

... to establish a specific sociopolitical order; renders economically productive the differentiated and dynamic value of urban spaces and populations; and involves flexible, provisional interventions that anticipate failure and skirt the edges of the law. Speculative policing combines three future-oriented...

... of popular politics. Finally, I consider the historicity of the crowd events and the politics pursued through their ongoing iterations. With the increasing failure of secularist parties to gain substantive parliamentary blocks, the growing secularist...

... their accepted roles, in chiding the latter for their scant participation in political life: Licypriya Kangujam was only seven when she challenged politicians in India for their failure to enact climate change laws. Eleven-year-old Naomi Wadler quieted a crowd of thousands at the 2018 March for Our Lives...

... would exist as a sign of national failure and remain a focus of attack even were there no Hindu na- tionalist parties, because the real problem is not religiosity but the politics of nationalism itself. An ominous sign of this appeared a few years ago during the Shah Ban0 case - when a Muslim...

...Stathis Gourgouris Duke University Press 2008 Antisecularist Failures: A Counterresponse to Saba Mahmood Stathis Gourgouris I guess it is to be expected that in today’s fashionable anti- secularist...

... deep cracks running through the tarmac. Later I am shown a video of a television news report where the journalist also points out the crumbling of the tarmac. Both Andrés and the journalist lament what the crumbling road represents—not just a failure of infrastructure but a failure of Peruvian politics...

..., even “the decider” ultimately ran aground, after his criminally negligent handling of Hurricane Katrina, the descent of the Iraq War into a quagmire, and above all the global financial crisis. Yet this last failure called into question more than the political fortunes of one individual president. From...

.... He offers no answers as to how a practice of sui- cide bombing might embody future-directed modes of sacrifice, what the relation between the theological and political contexts of such practices might be, or even how the successes and failures of such practices might be gauged. His point is rather...

... it is historical or contemporary; radical or trivial; political, cultural, mysterious, or commonplace; logical or nonsensical; ontological, revolutionary, or reactionary? Perhaps the failure of understanding difference is the failure of degree, which...

... support for Hanson’s xenophobic political party, One Nation, signaled a potentially apocalyptic failure of historical consciousness and memory of the social costs of the infamous mid-century white immigration policy. While com- 31. See...

... success or failure. Oddly, Asians from Uganda as well as those with cognate histories from Kenya and Tanzania tend to be central to these debates. In Canada, for instance, they are popularly acknowledged as one of multiculturalism's apparent success stories, with many having risen to visible political...

... emerging in the interstices of the English and that nineteenth-century moment in German. Yet what of the failure of high-level epistemic translation in so loving a friend and ally as Friedrich Engels? Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration...

..., and which I can answer only very partially, is about the significance and consequences of this turn to endurance. Is it evidence of the failure of both humanitarian and political actors: failure to improve conditions, to resolve the underlying problem, to accomplish liberation? Is it simply a fact...

... on Inequality and Democracy . Salcedo Fidalgo Andrés . 2015 . Víctimas y trasegares: Forjadores de ciudad en Colombia, 2002–2005 . Bogotá, Colombia : Universidad Nacional de Colombia . Schafran Alex . 2018 . The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics...

... called Ahmad’s sociological, positivist, precritical concept of fact. An instance: he explains the wave of academic radicalism in the United States today as a reflex denial of the failure of sixties new left politics and a displacement...

... particular political, economic, and material circumstances, and like all infrastructures, they are symbolic (Larkin 2013 ). The post-grid imaginary is visible amid ever more spectacular and catastrophic grid failures, as people cast around for solutions and utilities and states subsidize them because...