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Didier Fassin Edited by Bernard E. Harcourt and A Tim e for Crit ique A TIME FOR CRITIQUE NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY Amy Allen, General Editor New Directions in Critical Theory presents outstanding classic and contemporary texts in the tradition of critical social theory, broadly construed. The series aims to renew and advance the program of critical social theory, with a particular focus on theorizing contemporary struggles around gender, race, sexuality, class, and globalization and their complex interconnections. For a complete list of titles, see page 309 A TIME FOR CRITIQUE EDITED BY DIDIER FASSIN AND BERNARD E. HARCOURT Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup .columbia .edu Copyright © 2019 Columbia University Press All rights reserved A complete CIP record is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-0-231-19126-5 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-231-19127-2 (paper) ISBN 978-0-231-54931-8 (ebook) Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid- free paper. Printed in the United States of America Cover design: Noah Arlow CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 DIDIER FASSIN AND BERNARD E. HARCOURT PART I: CRITIQUE AS PRACTICE 1. How Is Critique? 13 DIDIER FASSIN 2. Critique as a Political Practice of Freedom 36 LINDA M. G. ZERILLI 3. Critique Without a Politics of Hope? 52 AYŞE PARLA 4. The Usefulness of Uncertain Critique 71 PETER REDFIELD 5. Human Rights Consciousness and Critique 91 KAREN ENGLE 6. Critique as Subduction 114 MASSIMILIANO TOMBA vi Contents 7. What’s Left of the Real? 132 VANJA HAMZIĆ PART II: CRITIQUE IN PRACTICE 8. Subaltern Critique and the History of Palestine 153 LORI ALLEN 9. Critical Theory in a Minor Key to Take Stock of the Syrian Revolution 174 FADI A. BARDAWIL 10. Pragmatic Critique of Torture in Sri Lanka 193 NICK CHEESMAN 11. Dispossession, Reimagined from the 1690s 210 DAVID KAZANJIAN 12. Crisis, Critique, and Abolition 230 ANDREW DILTS 13. Law, Critique, and the Undercommons 252 ALLEGRA M. MCLEOD 14. Critical Praxis for the Twenty- First Century 271 BERNARD E. HARCOURT List of Contributors 295 Index 297 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS T he present volume has been prepared during the year 2017 through a series of seminars followed by a two- day workshop in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. We express our gratitude to Laura McCune for the congenial organization of these events and to Munirah Bishop for the thorough copyediting of the manu- script. We are also thankful to Wendy Lochner and Lowell Frye at Columbia University Press for their unwavering support of our project. A TIME FOR CRITIQUE
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