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...Paul Apostolidis This essay reflects on the ways migrant day laborers advance a politics oriented toward the refusal of work. It identifies both impediments and tendencies conducive to such a politics by examining Latino migrant day laborers’ commentaries on their work searches on street corners...

... . Political and Social Affairs Division . http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp412-e.htm . A G A I N S T the D A Y Shady Hafez How to Buy a Coffee in a Settler State: Language and Refusal in Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg It is 9 a.m. on a Monday in Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg...

... , September 5 . http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/09/05/Vote-Dilemma-First-Nations . Simpson Audra . 2007 . “On Ethnographic Refusal: Indigeneity, ‘Voice,’ and Colonial Citizenship.” Junctures , no. 9 : 67 – 80 . Solomon Jon Sakai Naoki . 2007 . “Translation, Violence...

...Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen The aim of this article is to juxtapose the notion of refusal in Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Marcuse, and the Invisible Committee. The article opens by considering Blanchot's 1958 notion of a radical refusal and then turns to Marcuse's idea of a “great refusal” against one...

..., dispossession, and ecological collapse. Yet, in each case, crisis is called to order through refusal. Refusal disrupts racial capitalist and settler colonial circulation as it also opens radical alternatives. Looking to struggles over the imperial logistics of mobility and containment, the paper asks what kinds...

... and without precedent with regard to consistency of form, politics, scope, and scale. It is a growing global movement of refusal—and simultaneously, in that refusal, it is a movement of creation. The current frameworks provided by the social sciences and traditional left intellectuals to understand...

...Richard Gunn; Adrian Wilding The eruption of global struggles in 2010 calls for theoretical reflection. What distinguishes the new movements is not only their refusal of the existing socioeconomic order but their conscious experiments in alternative forms of social organization, interaction...

... in isolation for more than twenty years. The prisoners vowed to refuse food until five core demands were met. These demands were poignantly simple, including provision of warm clothes for their one hour per day of outdoor exercise in the “dog run,” permission to make one phone call per week, a supply...

... in the interrogation means to refuse to confess in order to protect one’s comrades, political organization, and community, as well as the Palestinian revolution more broadly. However, sumud is not a definable practice. For there are as many ways to practice sumud as there are Palestinians-in- sumud ; the significance...

...Alison Kafer This essay explores the politics of “hovering” in public restrooms, or the practice of refusing to sit on public toilets. How do such practices reveal a fundamental disregard for others? Drawing on transgender and disability studies, I trace the effects of such practices...

...Tom Cohen; Claire Colebrook The project of critical climate change refuses the exclusive disjunction offered by the Anthropocene. We contest the notion that there is an “anthropos” disclosed by way of its recognition of the destructiveness of the species, while also sustaining a critical conception...

..., both BLM protests and the movement itself have been labeled as irrational and dangerous, in part because protestors have refused to hide their anger at contemporary circumstances of racial discrimination in the criminal justice system and beyond. This essay challenges commonplace demands to eject anger...

... government, more black police officers, and white recognition of black humanity. Such proposals never asked whether the Ferguson protests articulated, on a certain frequency, a refusal of the possibility of the normal processes of redress available in a liberal democratic state. I argue that Ferguson lays...

... the power to impose waiting and appropriate time and, conversely, subversion and the refusal to acquiesce. When controls over mobility are differentially allocated to a population situated within a defined territory, differentiated temporal orders and their impact on subjectivities are put into relief...

... by and for working-class black women and women of color through music, sonic connection, and the hijacking of media communication. The film’s political commitment in both its production and content is anarchistic; it questions authority, refuses hierarchical structures, and calls for us to destabilize all dominant...

..., characteristic of melodrama, is, however, what allows for narrative continuity in serials. Refusing to consider politics and culture as two separate domains, the article explores the ways the structure of game both as a narrative genre and as a way of conducting politics characterizes the world of post-truth...

... output and student throughput (production-time) are all expressions of the dominance of neoliberal time. Further, it describes the ways in which students and workers refused to be keepers of neoliberal time by disrupting their roles as human capital with a focus on issues of racial, sexist, classist...

...Kelly Gillespie; Leigh-Ann Naidoo This essay reads the South African student movement’s insistence on “decolonizing” historically white universities not as any simple identity politicking or refusalism, but, as a politics of antiassimilation into a society stuck in a presiding racial capitalism...

... through an “antisociology,” that is, through a refusal of the separation of inquiry from political intervention within two incarnations of capitalist power: technologically advanced factories and the prisons. This positioning also invites one to consider political inquiry as a fully fledged mode...

... conditions of dispossession and exploitation within other disciplines that refuse or devalue knowledge about Indigenous peoples. Historically, “critique” has been vital to Native and Indigenous Studies, which emerged from the liberatory and resistant politics of the late sixties and seventies across North...