CRITICAL TIMES 8:2
Now available online through Duke University Press
This issue of Critical Times is the first of two special issues, guest-edited by Ruchi Chaturvedi and Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, that analyze racialized and caste-subjugated lives in southern and East Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. Contributions to the issue include a critical assessment of the global fertility industry, a literary analysis of the place of leather in Dalit writing, a discussion of the role of the Indian university in emancipatory projects, an account of anticaste Marxism in 1970s Punjab, and an essay on racial tensions in Uganda. The issue also includes an interview with the translator of Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth into isiZulu, a critical conversation on the Zuma riots in Johannesburg, and photographs from contemporary Lebanon.
Critical Times Reading List on Palestine
As we witness Israel's ongoing war of obliteration in Palestine, we call readers' attention to the reflections on Palestine that we have published in every volume of the journal. Click here to access the reading list.
In the Midst
In the Midst conveys the difficulties of writing during critical times, and registers the importance of writing from within concrete, unfolding situations, of thinking from particular grounds, and of allowing for responsive, experimental, and tentative interventions.
Critical Times is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to the intellectual and political project of critical theory. Recognizing the many forms that theory takes today, the journal works to call attention to the ongoing, collective reinvention of critique.
Critical Times features work from various world regions, with particular interests in theory from the southern hemisphere and other places beyond Europe and the United States, and in practices of cross-regional intellectual exchange and struggle. The journal is a project of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs and is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.