...Nicholas De Genova; Glenda Garelli; Martina Tazzioli Nicholas De Genova, Glenda Garelli, and Martina Tazzioli Autonomy of Asylum? The Autonomy of Migration Undoing the Refugee Crisis Script Their “Crisis” and Ours: The Proliferation...

...Alvaro Reyes; Mara Kaufman This essay examines the relationship between “autonomy” as practiced by the indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico, and the Western juridical concept of sovereignty. By delineating the historical trajectory of the concept of sovereignty and its colonial...

...Anne F. Garréta 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Anne F. Garréta Autonomy and Its Discontent Thinking Politically’’ announced itself as a quest. Participants (in the colloquium, in this special issue...

...Isabelle Stengers This essay argues that associating the developing climate disorder with a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, is a trap to be resisted but that ignoring the way this disorder puts into question today's autonomy theory is not an option. The proposition to speak about...

... University Protests and the Struggle for University Autonomy under Authoritarian Neoliberalism Shortly after a new rector close to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was appointed by Turkey s president to its flagship Bo aziçi University on January 1, 2021, faculty and students started protesting...

..., media commentaries, and productions; and formal institutional resistance and legal action. Altogether, Boğaziçi protests highlight, or, better, flesh out, the importance of university autonomy and democracy, reposing the question, What is a university? at this critical moment when public life...

...Gerard R. Latortue Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 The Chances for Autonomy in the French West Indies in the Seventies Gerard R. Latortue During the last decade most of the Caribbean islands and territories have attained either full independence or at least internal...

...S. B. West This article imagines abolitionist politics in the Yucatán peninsula as one group, known as U jeets'el le ki'ki’ kuxtal, pushes against one portion of Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador's development plan known as the “Tren Maya.” I contend that U je'etsel's calls for autonomy...

..., resistance, resilience, and necessity. Informed by activist strategies from Latin America and rooted in the struggle for reproductive justice, health equity, and autonomy, SMA has broad political implications and being a safe and effective solution for someone with an unwanted pregnancy in the present. While...

...Bülent Küçük; Ceren Özselçuk This essay engages with the political possibilities and limits of the ethico-political horizon of the resistance in Rojava, which has been advanced and put into action under the general name of democratic autonomy . Following the shift of perspective that took place...

... Maoli useful to the state's legitimacy and authority to the detriment of indigenous cultural, economic, and political autonomy. In the interests of this autonomy and against the anthropological machine, we break from Western political theory to suggest that an investment in the Kanaka ontological...

...Nazan Üstündağ This intervention concerns the ways in which law and violence are being reorganized in Rojava. Based on observations and interviews I conducted in the Jazira canton of Rojava, I argue that, through democratic autonomy, the Rojava revolution poses a challenge to the politics...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay explores the political efficacy of the concepts of autonomy and antagonism in the contemporary milieu of anthropogenic climate change and toxicity. It stages this examination through an imaginary colloquium attended by Italian members of the autonomist movement...

... as a source of information and intelligence that gives form to energy. The notions of carbosilicon machine and cyberfossil capital are sketched in order to rethink social autonomy also as autonomy of energy and information. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 Anthropocene cybernetics energy...

... legitimizing the inexorably paternalistic work of NGOs, funding streams, and rhetoric. To critique such a perspective, the author makes two counterpoints. On the one hand, she seeks to counter the figure of trafficking with that of the autonomy of migration, understanding autonomy from a point of view...

.... Mario Tronti's theory of the autonomy of the political, which took Carl Schmitt as a fundamental point of reference, is briefly discussed and presented as a possible polemical target of Foucault. His critique of the shift to the political is presented as a symptom of his enduring fidelity to the legacy...

... of political action under the banner of “autonomy.” Ornelas attempts to avoid the oppositional reactions with which proponents of each position have met the other in the Latin American context and instead attempts an evenhanded evaluation of the vision and actions of each position, placing emphasis on the fact...

... articulation of the “fear” underlying the loss of human autonomy as a political problem, including the ways in which Foucault’s efforts to theorize resistance and the refusal of normative structures of social organization are still forceful or remain inadequate. Many of these authors are concerned...

... implication of these issues, and in discussing the related topics of political representation and the state, the article contends that communist politics today must remain open to the past, translate between different struggles, and construct an autonomy grounded in social being. © 2014 Duke University...

... capitalist legitimacy to collective forms of autonomy. The second part examines central sociological dimensions permeating the reality of austerity, from the power of the state, via the pervasive processes of commodification, to the emergence of a “new spirit of capitalism.” The third part reflects...