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South Atlantic Quarterly (2012) 111 (1): 29–49.
Published: 01 January 2012
... faithful to a set of strong and clear principles for political action that distances us from the shell of politics in the electoral arena while simultaneously engaging in and affirming a new politics of emancipation. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Grupo Acontecimiento
The Affirmation...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 January 2023
... faced with public events, we know that we must refuse. Refusal is absolute, categorical. It does not discuss or voice its reasons. This is how it remains silent and solitary, even when it affirms itself, as it should, in broad daylight.” So says Maurice Blanchot ( 2010c : 7) in his one-page tract aptly...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2009) 108 (4): 751–764.
Published: 01 October 2009
... freedom as the primary theoretical cover for tenure and examine—dare I say affirm?—tenure as a practice in its own right, as a business practice in a particular labor situation. While most recent analysis suggests no future for tenure precisely because of its economic costs, I argue that tenure is in fact...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (4): 789–798.
Published: 01 October 2020
... his re-affirmation of a particular Jamesonian version of constructivism, the Marxist spin he puts on loose and generalized notions of “X is a construct” and “everything is narrative.” Jameson’s loyalty to the concept of “ideology” is read here as another moment in his long-lasting dialogue...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2009) 108 (2): 265–284.
Published: 01 April 2009
..., and a discussion of the social and political significance of this connection is undertaken. The relationship between art and society is considered from a political and a cognitive perspective, taking into account the possible critical and affirmative functions of artworks. A distinction is drawn between attempts...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2012) 111 (1): 95–109.
Published: 01 January 2012
... that decolonization must be not only a discourse but also an affirmative practice. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Ch’ixinakax utxiwa:
A Reflection on the Practices
and Discourses of Decolonization
The colonial condition obscures a number...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2013) 112 (1): 71–78.
Published: 01 January 2013
... only as a black body. This is the objecthood that Fanon experiences as fixing him in the white gaze, and preempting him as an individual subject. Thus Fanon sees in the Lordship and Bondage (or master and slave) relation of G. W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology the life-endangering, yet life-affirming risk...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2013) 112 (4): 675–696.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., negating theism does “positive” productive and creative work, energizing a different kind of affirmation. Nuances in rhetoric, emotional color, and practical engagement with religious cultures and institutions create distinctions among atheists, secular humanists, and naturalists that are more than merely...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (4): 777–790.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Sandro Mezzadra; Brett Neilson Arguing that the actuality of communism cannot be abstracted from the materiality of politics, this article engages with the works of Bruno Bosteels and Jodi Dean by affirming the radical innovation produced by the qualification of communism as a “real movement...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (3): 591–608.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Emphasizing happiness has allowed sex workers to become legible as political actors within preexisting terms of liberal citizenship. This strategy, however, has effectively affirmed the cultural logics of the “rescue industry” and poses significant challenges to cross-class, -racial, and -age solidarity among...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (4): 713–734.
Published: 01 October 2022
...) is unsettled, and in some ways, cannot be settled. It is an open problematic for us. This interregnum entails two theoretical developments of note: first, intense forms of intervention around Marx’s thought outside France (specifically in Brazil, Italy, Japan, and Iran). Second, a wager on new, affirmative...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (4): 874–883.
Published: 01 October 2014
... against the country’s present and past, the multitude has needed to face the fact that there are not many tools available for understanding the moment in which we live. Thus, combining a lot of creativity and courage, poor people, who have experienced a newfound social mobility and who have affirmed...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 January 2018
..., their humanity and agency are affirmed through the will to persist and move. Waiting is not a passive state but is rather an embodied state of active stasis , punctuated by movement; both occur in spatiotemporal zones characterized by particular configurations of power. Ethnographic encounters illustrate...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2009) 108 (3): 449–457.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., Richard Wright, C. L. R. James, and Eric Williams, to name just a few. The “political” approach, which I exemplify here with the writings of Richard Wright, would subsequently be challenged by a preoccupation with the affirmation of “culture.” © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Tejumola Olaniyan...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (3): 521–533.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., and fraternity (commonality) turn out to be less values affirmed by revolution than invariants of a common sense, outside of which they are unthinkable and unimaginable. Being unrepresentable, they constantly receive representative equivalents, which constitute the spectacle. The author proposes to use them...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (4): 715–724.
Published: 01 October 2020
...) distinguishing between ideology and propaganda; 2) understanding ideology in relation to current conditions—especially the abundance and novelty of affect, the shrinkage and acceleration of the ideologeme, and the global circuitry of intellectual exchange; 3) emphasizing the affirmative aspects of critique...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (4): 861–868.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., and moments of vitalization to affirm the affective defeat and recompose collective forces in new questions for the future, joy, and dignity. The reflections shared here take place in a concrete practice of political reorganization that the authors call espacio.tierra, and they argue that the revolt does...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (3): 591–625.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Ramzi Fawaz This essay argues for the importance of cisgender straight male perspectives to contemporary feminist theory and practice. I identify four lessons to be learned from what I call male affirmative feminist theory written by people of all genders, defined as any feminist thought...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (3): 549–568.
Published: 01 July 2024
...—as the subjects of an insurgent universality (Tomba 2019 ). The article explores the international brigades fighting the fascists during the Spanish Civil War, the peasants gathered to affirm the Second Havana Declaration, and the audience that comprised Thomas Sankara's speech in Harlem. The artifacts...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2013) 112 (1): 99–114.
Published: 01 January 2013
... colonization. This biopolitical strategy of resistance views the act of self-destruction as paradoxically enabling the continuation of communal life; the decision to terminate an individual life, then, represents an affirmation of Palestinian communal life as it resists defeat, despair, and humiliation...
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