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... Act toward peoples and communities most impacted by the pandemic is only one example of this intensified necropolitics. We focus here on conceptions and mobilizations of care and uncaring, and the catastrophe of the settler-capitalist state at this time. With all the talk about the need for self-care...

... of gradual but progressive growth that characterized the industrial age, extreme, fractal changes increasingly characterize our biopolitical age. We live in an era of catastrophic time. If most policy makers seem intent on ignoring or exacerbating the perils of the Anthropocene age, popular culture...

... of catastrophe. These representations emerge within the increasing globalization of transitional justice, a context that seeks intensifying degrees of communicability as it turns local legacies of violence into ones with international implications. Gillian Slovo's account of a South African amnesty hearing, Red...

... of one of the survivors of the wreck, and the Facebook story of drowned South African cadet Akhona Marara Felicity Geveza, the essay centers the nonevent that unfolded in the wake of the supposed catastrophe. It focuses on the role of economic extraction in creating the historically entangled Indian...

...Nicholas Mirzoeff Abstract Seeing with Palestine was a constitutive possibility in the anticolonial way of seeing from the moment of the Nakba, meaning “catastrophe,” the destruction of Palestinian society in 1948. This article traces this way of seeing in the genealogy of visual culture...

...Ramzi Fawaz This article explores how the speculative worlds of contemporary US superhero comics have addressed the problem of difference and human diversity through stories about the catastrophic threat of genocide. It focuses on a classic DC Comics storyline—the Legion of Super-Heroes’ Legion...

...Anna McCarthy A narrative of catastrophic thinking, told through a relationship with a thing. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Casio Anna McCarthy When I was twenty-three years old I picked up a solar-powered calculator from among the fifty-cent items at a yard sale in Chicago...

... outside the history of Palestine under the Zionist occupation but must be understood in a direct relation to it. Accordingly, Said emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and exploring the connection between the Jewish tragedy and the Palestinian catastrophe, a connection that makes...

...: The Then and There of Queer Futurity . New York : New York University Press . Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Korakrit Arunanondchai boy child futurity catastrophe here and now human rights Anthropocene As a writing collective, we kept saying to ourselves that we need to think about...

.... BLM uprising COVID-19 [email protected] [email protected] 2020. The year 2020 lunged ahead, each day revealing more and more drastic and catastrophic events. These were not new catastrophes; in fact they were all too familiar, to some people more than others. But they piled on one...

..., and observers report sharp esca- lations in unemployment and malnutrition. One can only imagine what it feels like to live under such catastrophic conditions. And what have the Israelis gained from this violent escalation in mil...

... intense awareness of the fleeting nature of time. —Elias Khoury, “Remembering Ghassan Kanafani; or, How a Nation Was Born of Story Telling” Two of the most important dates in the study of contemporary Palestine are 1936 and 1948: the year of rebellion and the year of catastrophe. In 1936...

... . 30 Wynter, “Ceremony Found,” 196 . 31 Wynter, “Proud Flesh Inter/Views,” 15 . 32 Wynter, “Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?,” 33 . 33 Wynter, “Ceremony Found,” 217 . 34 Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality,” 264 . 35 “We know of this brilliant concept...

... archives colonial botany diaspora history of photography speculative fiction In Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's Arabic-language two-channel video In Vitro (2019), an ecological catastrophe swallows Bethlehem in oil, fire, and smoke. In response, a group of scientists move underground, bringing...

... and experience of exile is shared by both mother and daughter. This reinforces Lila Abu-Lughod’s suggestion that the exile brought about as a consequence of the Nakba (Arabic for the Catastrophe) is a history not yet passed for the generations of Palestinians born after the Nakba. Put differently...

...-disclosures of After the Last Sky. This earlier text articulates a lyri- cally critical meditation, a singular and binding voice that grounds the anonymous faces that are the exemplars of human rights or catastrophe photography. The text opens a biographical door, assembling personal disclosure...

..., the Statement on Race was conceived as an antiracist project saturated from the outset by a pedagogical imperative I characterize as the reeducation of race. In the wake of a global catastrophe attributable, in UNESCO’s view, to the uncontrolled spread of racial theories and ideologies, this project...

... are already dreaming the messy, dirty end of this one? 5. The question of Blackness and soil/dirt is not an unoccupied intellectual space. See, e.g., Adams, “Du Bois, Dirt Determinism, and the Reconstruction of Global Value” ; Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness ; Posmentier, Cultivation and Catastrophe...

... immediately after witnessing (and in many cases living through) a catastrophe or carnage like the killings, arson, disappearances, and rapes of the partition. Entire communities that until recently had lived together turned...

... reparation—a widely and extremely unevenly distributed (in space and time, geography and history) multitude of actions, whose potentially catastrophic consequences are here used to unify the species as a subject of nature, precisely when the subject of history has long become an object of tired mockery...