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Crisis beyond the exceptional: the latent, everyday nature of the crisis perpetual
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.We are surrounded by declarations of crises, from climate to housing, debt and beyond. Crisis is everywhere and yet it remains exceptional. A crisis is imagined as a call to action, a repudiation of the old system, promising change if only the moment can be seized.
Kathryn Furlong
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Mbembe, A. (2017). Crítica da razão Negra. Lisboa: Antígona.
Comunicação e Sociedade, 2018 Crítica da razão Negra [Critique of black reason], by Achille Mbembe, is not a story about ideas, or an exercise in historical sociology, despite making use of history “to put forth a style of critical reflection about the world of our time” (p.
Vítor de Sousa
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A ideia de pós-colónia em cientistas sociais africanos na diáspora [PDF]
, 2012 No marco do paradigma de estudos pós-colonial, o conceito de pós-colónia surge, frequentemente, associado ao de Estado e a reflexões sobre a institucionalização política de estruturas herdadas do colonizador.
Sa, Ana Lucia
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Degrees of permeability: confinement, power and resistance in Freetown's Central Prison
, 2020 This article deconstructs a binary that has arisen between prisons as, on the one hand, ‘total institutions’ of exclusion and, on the other, ‘carceral continuums’ that incorporate marginalized urban livelihoods. The experiences of four inmates at Pademba
Schneider, L.
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A Reserve of Light: Photography, Ethnography, and Lucid Memory in Contemporary Chile
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article takes shape as a shared inquiry between an ethnographer and a photographer, in continuity with the photographic archive of Luis Poirot. Through sustained encounters with his images and archival practices, the text does not position itself outside the archive that motivates it, but unfolds from within it.
Cristóbal Bonelli, Luis Poirot
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Quando não se pode mais conviver
Revista de História, 2020 Resenha do Livro: MBEMBE, Achille. Políticas da inimizade. Tradução Marta Lança. Lisboa: Antigona, 2017.
Flavio Dantas Martins
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De la postcolonie d'Achille Mbembe : recension d'une hypothèse cardinale sur le devenir de l'Afrique [PDF]
, 2014 Cette recension s’intéresse à l’ouvrage d’Achille Mbembe De la postcolonie. Essai sur l’imagination politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine, Paris : Karthala, 2000 (2004).
Abadie, Delphine
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Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
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An unclouded view: compulsory ontology, clinical episteme, and gendering dissidence of suicide [PDF]
, 2013 This paper is but one part of a broader study that examines the gender-specific position of contemporary death and of suicide in particular. As a point of departure, it takes a set of arguments around discourses on suicide as hegemonic, accumulated ...
Stamenkovic, Marko
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The Political Economy of Emergency: Postcolonialism, Crisis Governance and Decolonial Alternatives
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue S1, Page S73-S92, April 2026.Abstract The political rhetoric surrounding the Horn of Africa is perpetually framed through narratives of crisis, tragedy and emergency. These labels, rather than simply being used to describe instability, function as tools of governance to normalise dysfunction and entrench cycles of dependency.
HOPE JOHNSON
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