In the few months since its publication—and notwithstanding the emergence of a global pandemic that has irrevocably altered imaginations of…
The Universal Enemy—A reply
universalism
Texts, tales, transits: Archival method and the politics of listening
[Darryl] Li could not have set out a more difficult methodological task. To write an “ethnographic history from below–one that…
Social drama, universalisms’ political violence, and transnational law
In a perhaps somewhat contrapuntal response to the provocation to see the broader world differently than we may otherwise, as…
Solid ground (“Idioms of the left”)
It has been fascinating to read Darryl Li’s The Universal Enemy at a time when national boundaries—not to mention political…
Looking imperial universalism in the eye
In his study of the jihad in Bosnia, Darryl Li performs what might be considered a “radical” move of his…
Decolonizing universalisms
Darryl Li’s book takes the experience of multiple projects of humanitarian interventions in Bosnia during the 1990s as a laboratory…
The Universal Enemy—An introduction
In the introductory essay to this forum on his book, Darryl Li describes how instead of positing jihad or Muslims…