Refusal is shorthand for saying, “We’ve seen this before and we don’t want it; and not only don’t we want…
Indigenous refusals and near others
protests
“Sing Hallelujah to the Lord”: Secular Christianities on Hong Kong’s Civic Square
Situated at what is arguably the founding moment of these 2019 protests, the popularity of “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord”…
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
In this forum of The Immanent Frame, the contributors tackle the dual questions of the political and the popular.
Reparative capitalism
What would it mean to sever philanthropy—affectively, politically—from reciprocal obligation? What would it look like to enact politics on a…
Indigenous protective occupation and emergent networks of spirited refusal
The spirited refusal of conceited and deaf forms of state secularity is on stark display in many contemporary protest movements. This is…
Occupy Gezi, beyond the religious-secular cleavage
The protests in Turkey started on May 27 with a modest resistance movement against the destruction of Istanbul’s Gezi Park…
An excursion through the partitions of Taksim Square
Taksim Meydanı. Partition Square. Although it has taken on potent new resonances in recent days, the name of Istanbul’s throbbing central…
The discourse of Islamic militancy
Over at ISLAMiCommentary, TIF contributor Mbaye Lo sees a clear disconnect and calls for a retrospective analysis in the wake…
Death in the Middle East: What happens next?
On the 11th anniversary of the September 11, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya…
Political and religious groups clash in Bonn
Last Saturday, a regional political rally in the German city of Bonn turned violent as Salafists, followers of a conservative…