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Articles tagged as "Coloniality"

Modernity, Coloniality, and Interiority in Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Brenna Moore
May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

The affective, even queer way Maritain and Massignon carried themselves is “modern” in a sense because modernity creates space for the perpetuation of hegemonic norms as well as their subversion.

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The Myth of the Secular Revolutionary: On Fanon’s Religion

Series: Reconsidering Fanon and Religion
An Yountae
April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

Fanon’s critique of religion winds up being a powerful critique of the secular. Contrarily, Fanon seeks refuge in the secular in order to resignify the human but he ends up repurposing religion along the way.

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On Decolonizing Queer Studies

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Sa'ed Atshan
October 26, 2021October 26, 2021

This essay draws upon van Klinken’s book as a launching pad to think through decolonizing queer studies more broadly.

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Introducing The Arab and Jewish Questions

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Leila Farsakh
August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

This book interrogates the opposition between the “Arab” and the “Jew” in order to challenge dominant understandings of political identities, nationalism, and citizenship rights.

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An Afro-Jewish Critique of Jews Against Liberation

Lewis R. Gordon
March 26, 2021March 31, 2021

Identification with whiteness leaves no recourse from being identified with the enslaver and master. White Jewish evocation of Exodus thus reeks of hypocrisy so long as such a Jew insists on being white.

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Buddhist Studies Has a Whiteness Problem

Constance Kassor
March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

Buddhist studies, on the whole, has not acknowledged, let alone addressed, issues of colonization, white supremacy, and the erasure of Asian people and cultures within the field.

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Fraternity is More Durable than Fratricide : Pope Francis Visits Iraq

Omar Mohammed and Victoria Fontan
March 18, 2021March 19, 2021

Pope Francis might have performed a diplomatic miracle: that of beginning to help bridge the religious fault lines in Iraq by encouraging, for the first time, Ayatollah al-Sistani to appear in public.

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Uyghur Oppression from a Decolonial Perspective

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China
Chiara Olivieri
March 5, 2021

Since post-colonial times have not (yet) come for the Uyghurs, a decolonial approach to the Uyghur issue must start by assuming the colonial nature of the relations between the Chinese nation-state and both the Uyghurs and their homeland.

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Decolonial Islamic Studies and Defending Muḥammad in Modernity

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Sohaira Siddiqui
March 4, 2021

With remarkable subtlety, Tareen impresses upon the reader the distinction between the ability of colonial modernity to affect the nature of intellectual debates and the ability of colonial modernity to affect the content of those debates.

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On the Rhetoric of Jewish Solidarity: A Hebrew-Israelite’s Perspective

Series: Policing Analogies
Rabbi Walter Isaac
February 9, 2021

In the desire to demonstrate that Jews are on the right side of history, the (white and non-white) Jewish community’s problems with racism are often ignored.

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