... within the Kurdish liberation movement in the 1990s, we interpret democratic autonomy as a new methodology that weds decolonization and national liberation with a strong critique of the state form and patriarchal capitalist modernity. We then discuss autonomy and democracy as distinct yet related moments...

... that the claims staked by Western oil companies to the entire subterranean sphere involved a configuration of sovereignty in which the states in question were alienated from the resources of value. This hollow form of sovereignty had corollaries on the territorial level where oil companies promoted sectarianism...

... reminding refugees that they are orphans of both nation-state and revolution (Allan 2014; Peteet 2005, 2010; R. Sayigh 2011). In this predicament, Palestinians in Lebanon vocalize their exaspera- tion in the form of a catharsis, an emotional and political outbreak from the past political...

... a second form of resistance, challenging the new wave of colonization by placing their “stories” directly against those built around nation-state sovereignty. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Gordon Christie Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Canada’s Far North: The Arctic and Inuit Sovereignty...

... to manage our reproductive material that surpasses the antagonism between the naturalist forms of reproduction legitimized by the nation-state and the privatization and capitalization techniques of cognitive capitalism where fluids, cells, hormones, molecules, and genes are the object of new processes...

... of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the PKK, and becomes a dominant form in the following years. This modality depicts the project of assimilation as swallowing and digesting. The final modality emerges after the collapse of the peace process between the Turkish state and the PKK in 2015. Here, Kurds become...

... as a legal status rooted in a nation-state, and in stark opposition to a condition of statelessness.” The growing population of outcasts produced by neoliberal economic and political interests is also creating the conditions for new forms of mobili- zation. The provisional alliances forming among...

... speak to forms of radical abolitionist politics present in the United States, where we might observe the centrality of land in both abolition and decolonization. To this end, I first provide a definition of a trans feminist abolition radically focused on the otherwise, or the eradication of all forms...

... forms of decolonization that would enable self-determination without state sovereignty, Césaire challenged the territorial and national assumptions that typically governed twentieth-century cultural and political thinking and which still inform social thought today. This essay examines several...

... call anytime to avoid a police raid. Conclusion Running away or escape become common practice across nation-state bor- ders to break the rigidities of international division of labor. Common strug- gles of migrant workers discussed in this essay depicted forms of solidarity within the group of migrants...

... Chipewyan First Nation report high rates of cancer, including a rare form of bile duct cancer (Lawrynuik 2019 ; Preston 2013 : 54). And man camps in the oil and gas industry are notorious as sites of sexual violence against Indigenous women, contributing to what the National Inquiry on Missing...

... of state, nation, society, and people as referent objects through which concrete form is given to factical finitude, modern biopolitics of security and war exemplify the political eschatology of modern times. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 A G A I N S T the D A Y Michael Dillon Specters...

... the state-sanctioned massacre of striking mineworkers at Marikana in 2012 as a significant marker for this current phase of protests, the essay explores some of the subsequent political shifts, including challenges to the hegemony of the ruling political party—the African National Congress—and to the trade...

... a kleptocratic ruling class of sectarian leaders and financiers that had captured and bankrupted the state through a nationwide Ponzi scheme. Protests were nation-wide, calling for the downfall of the government and reform of the sectarian political and clientalist system. Many demanded a new form of politics...

... pretrial. The Debt Collective—the nation’s first debtors’ union—is piloting work to abolish $500 million in bail debt held by cosigners across California as a new form of collective action around carceral debt. We explore the concept of a carceral debtors’ union as part of broader debtors’ union...

... question and permanent problem of left internationalism. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 internationalism cosmopolitanism humanity nation-state form In this essay, I would like to reflect on how contemporary left internationalism could think through...

..., of the time in which we live and accept our rule. By surfacing the rationalized frameworks of sex- uality for which queers of color are deformations and monstrous perversions, they enable a problematization of the present and especially of the nation- state form that otherwise governs our relation...

... National Subjectivity and the Uses of Atonement 745 by history textbook reform The organization attacks textbooks, especially middle-school texts, that ‘‘depict the nation-state formed during the Meiji Restoration asevilandcondemn...

... clan leaders felt aggrieved and pushed him from power in 1991. Since that moment the Somali state has more forcefully assumed the mantle of spec- tral nationality as successive attempts at some form of national reconcilia- tion have foundered in clan violence and provincial disaffection. One dis...

...’ of study for the field” beyond “the nation-state, sexuality, the sexed body, race and sex” (Eng and Puar: 14). For this reason, I consider the aesthetic as the queer method to ground such forms of critique, particularly in light of legible demands that often come out of Marxist and racial capitalist...