... that obtains in the embattled Sudanese region of Darfur, the intent here is to suggest that while the unsettler's origins (and political tendencies) are not easily distinguishable from those of his settler roots, the unsettler is a very particular instantiation of (state-sponsored) political violence...

... of socialism and pan‐Islamism on Kurdish politics and the linguistic complexities that obscure the colonial difference through language are examined. Contemporary dynamics, such as the Peace and Democracy Process and political violence, are analyzed to provide insights into the evolving nature of the Kurdish...

... the way bare life is implicated in the gendered, class, colonial, and racist configurations of the political and, because of this implication, suffers different forms of violence. The central paradox bare life presents for political analysis is not only the erasure of political distinctions but also...

.... Does the age-­old problem of political violence get any better if we invest in vulnerability rather than hubris as the foundation for political subjec- tivity? No. Vulnerability breeds its own violence, and Butler is not shy about endorsing forms of political and indeed state-­led violence...

...Erin R. Pineda Martin Luther King Jr. and Frantz Fanon are often conceived as offering incompatible political strategies for liberation from the structures of white supremacy and colonization. While in 1958 King contended that the choice was not between “violence and nonviolence, but between...

... (including political, ideological, and psycho-affective) of a radical international thought. Going beyond articulations of anti-colonial struggle at the national level, the issue charts radical theories and praxes of insurgency and revolutionary violence and brings an internationalist framework to bear...

... but, rather, a violence other than violence, a form of power whose content is a subjectivation beyond the problematic of sovereignty. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 political violence Autonomia operaismo destituent power May 1968 The question of political...

...Sarah Philipson Isaac Abstract This essay explores the entanglement of racial capitalism, carceral geographies, and counter-politics of care within the sociopolitical landscape of Sweden. It analyzes the government's response to gang violence in 2023, which mobilized the figure of a “racial threat...

... sexist violence and economic violence. This diagnosis was produced in assemblies, translated into slogans, and used to compose political alliances. As part of that process, the Ni Una Menos Collective, along with other organizations, coordinated an action in June 2017 at the doors of the Central Bank...

... and interpersonal violence. The police have long targeted black and Latinx trans people in and around public restrooms; recent antitrans bathroom bills aim to intensify and generalize such policing of trans bodies. The essay opens with a phenomenological inquiry into the moment of such policing, in which an officer...

... of black politics and the aims of black protest.2 A recurring theme in reactions to the current global wave of black pro- test, from uprisings against police violence in the United States to the “fal- list” university student protests in South Africa, has been a critique of the use...

... losing credibility with the protestors and the minority community. Finally, it will also examine the failure of the mainstream political parties in preventing violence by the state against the protestors (such as in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Delhi) and in moderating the protests so that they do...

...Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby The 2019 revolt in Chile touched and exposed the mythical violence involved in the establishment and preservation of political‐legal orders (Benjamin). The demand for the New Constitution and the (ineffective?) process of its elaboration could have been key moments...

...), and their alternative histories of sovereign authority forever obstructing the imperative of political consolidation. Massive mobilization and violence against sharks overwhelmed any emergent alternatives that might have given Kānaka Hawai‘i a distinctive voice at the time of statehood, a voice...

... were felt themselves to be in a quandary with few resources for resolving the tensions they felt between the depth of their miscarriage grief and their pro-choice politics. In 2005, an Australian parliament passed legislation in response to cases of women miscarrying pregnancies as a result of violence...

... structure of power as it shows itself today, destituent politics harbor a unique risk of lethal violence. Avoiding this risk requires cultivating a political force or potentiality that, as Agamben puts it, would be “strong enough to remain destituent.” [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke...

... illegitimized subject position of the “Kurdish queer” as its point of departure, this article highlights the importance of taking the situated knowledge and political analyses of Kurdish queers seriously to uncover histories of violence as well as the multiple layers of queer, postcolonial, and decolonial...

... maneuver. A liberal approach, for example, gestures toward a refuge from racial/colonial violence, one that can be accomplished via the more comprehensive incorporation of racialized sub- jects into the body politic or the US political economy as equals. This teleo- logical schema identifies...

... of insurgent violence, sacrificial mythology, and Manichaean politics generates insoluble aporias that spur the development of a radically different approach to the study of myth and human nature. Next, it shows how Jesi's studies on festivity from the 1970s redound upon and transform the theory of revolt...

... to restore the conditions of its domination. The article proposes these observations to stimulate the reading of the contributions to this dossier, which problematize different aspects of the political process under discussion: the aporetic relationship among revolt, violence, and law; the citizenry's turn...