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Articles tagged as "Sovereignty"

In-Between Affect: Governing (with) Saints

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Omar Kasmani
December 6, 2023February 1, 2024

The affective in-between is where we feel and thereby know that the Pakistani state is present in scenes of religious intimacy.

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Black Women and the Political Performance for Environmental, Territorial, and Human Rights on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Series: Theories of Land
Kaché H. Claytor
July 25, 2023February 1, 2024

Black women have been at the forefront of authoring pathways to futurity through their care work, spiritual customs, performance cultures, aesthetic practices, philosophies, and activist movements.

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More Than a Land of Open Graves: How the Sonoran Desert Refuses Capture

Series: Theories of Land
Barbara Sostaita
July 20, 2023

The desert’s sacred energies are an unruly affront to enforcement agents who seek possession or mastery.

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Reason’s Idols: A Response to Khan Asfandyar Shairani and Joshua S. Lupo

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Khaled Furani
February 23, 2023September 15, 2024

If revelation is arguably the humbler of reason, when might we reasonably expect reason to be capable of humbling revelation? When might a rock humble the rain?

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Notes on the Coup in Myanmar: Karmic Kingship, Legitimacy, and Sovereignty

Ingrid Jordt
April 6, 2021April 6, 2021

Aung San Suu Kyi has been negotiating between two divergent models for political legitimacy and sovereignty. On the one hand are western principles of human rights and democracy, on the other is karmic kingship.

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Prophet Motive

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Faisal Devji
February 18, 2021February 18, 2021

Controversies about the Prophet’s status rehearse a political as much as a theological paradox, since the very effort to expel sovereignty from human society while preserving it elsewhere sets the stage for its spectacular return.

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Sovereignty, Blackness, and the Decolonial Task: Thought Experiments

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion
Joseph Winters
July 23, 2020February 1, 2024

Black radical practice revises, reinterprets, and in some cases refuses the logic of sovereignty.

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Who Are We the People? Unpopular Sovereignties in the United States and India

Series: India's Winter of Protest
Richard Amesbury
March 31, 2020May 4, 2020

Who are “we the people”? What makes this question puzzling is that it cannot, without circularity, be answered democratically, by appealing to the will of the people.

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