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Articles tagged as "Colonialism"

The Mute Eloquence of Impossible Histories

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Purnima Dhavan
May 1, 2025

There is room to embrace the ethics of the vision in this book while still historicizing profusely and even counter-historicizing.

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Introduction to Prophetic Maharaja

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Joshua S. Lupo
May 1, 2025May 1, 2025

Judge suggests that the past never contains the certainties we like to project onto it, and thus that the present is unlikely to contain them either.

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Sovereignty and Silence in Modern India

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Matthew Shutzer
April 9, 2025

Kanjwal’s book seeks to imagine a social world outside the varied bonds and discourses of states.

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The Politics of Life as a Colonial Governmentality: The Bakshi Regime and the Indian Occupation of Kashmir

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Amen Jaffer
April 2, 2025

Understanding politics of life as a colonial governmentality directs attention to the desires, interests, and motivations that the Bakshi regime sought to produce in Kashmiri subjects.

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Indian Occupation in Kashmir: From State Building to Dismantling the State

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Ather Zia
March 25, 2025March 25, 2025

The reduction of Kashmiris into simplistic tropes reinforces a colonizer-colonized dynamic, one which has enabled the Indian state to justify its control over the region.

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Introduction to Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Joshua S. Lupo
March 25, 2025March 25, 2025

What happens when the postcolonial state itself becomes an agent of colonization and not merely one of its victims?

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The (National) Fantasies of Hope: Rethinking the 2024 Indian Elections

Rajbir Singh Judge and Hafsa Kanjwal
June 27, 2024June 27, 2024

The past and future of India always redeems the violent exclusions in the present.

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Reframing the Past and Imagining the Future of Post-Brexit Northern Ireland

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures
Thomas Tweed
February 6, 2024February 6, 2024

Maybe new frames, metaphors, and terms can help Islanders confront the legacy of the past on the island of Ireland.

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Black Dignity as a Universal Horizon

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity
Nadia Fadil
August 31, 2023January 24, 2024

The political vocabularies and tactics generated through the African American struggle has had a universal reach that has inspired and shaped struggles all over the world.

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Introduction to Symposium on Who Are My People?

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?
Joshua S. Lupo
April 6, 2023May 23, 2023

Katongole listens not only to the stories people tell, but listens for the patterns enfolded within them, and the larger tapestry those patterns make up.

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