Asma Abbas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5869788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asma Abbas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asma |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbas |
| SIGNATURE | ABBAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bard College at Simon's Rock |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Conditions of the Possibility of Our Anticolonial Synaesthetics
Colonialism
Colonialism refers to a range of violent and unjust acts of encounter, conquest, control, and settlement of lands and communities by those who did not originally inhabit those lands. This involves the formation—material, sensible, psychic, epistemic, spatial, affective, linguistic, ideological—of new communities that strongly identify with, and are legitimized and authorized by, what the newcomers have left behind. This formation of new communiti…
Eyes at a Distance of Six Feet
He stood six feet away from meGloves, mask, and helmet-like hat on his headOnly his eyes were openGlaring, peeking, surveying, gazing, smiling, crying,Eyes that recall a little, eyes that forget so muchEyes seen one last time before someone is capturedAt home, going to work, teaching children at school, strolling in a park, going shopping,Eyes seen being covered with a hoodIn the wrinkles of the faces of the mothers of the disappeared protesting …
No Demos in the Pandemic
That the present moment ties multiple crises together—not least because each is a future of pasts that wound(ed) through each other—must be factored into our intercessions and visions. If every crisis is also a call to order, then what order, old or new, does the pandemic call us to? Its literality provokes us to keep both the pan and the demos in sight, just as they are being extinguished through borders, disease, poverty, insecurity, hatred, an…
At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
From the Love Studio
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics
A materialist critique of the politics, poetics and economics of suffering in liberalism that argues for attention to the labour of suffering of the victim in many well-meaning but flawed politics of
Voice Lessons: Suffering and the Liberal Sensorium
This essay examines the centrality of voice and presence in liberalism’s relation to suffering, and sees this manifested in proclivities of liberal politics, ethics, and aesthetics in the face of suffering in different situations and of varying magnitudes. I argue that beyond worrying about who speaks for whom in liberal and postmodern identity politics, democratic theory must address why it demands what it does from sufferers in exchange for pro…
No prominent works on this page.
Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics
A materialist critique of the politics, poetics and economics of suffering in liberalism that argues for attention to the labour of suffering of the victim in many well-meaning but flawed politics of
Voice Lessons: Suffering and the Liberal Sensorium
This essay examines the centrality of voice and presence in liberalism’s relation to suffering, and sees this manifested in proclivities of liberal politics, ethics, and aesthetics in the face of suffering in different situations and of varying magnitudes. I argue that beyond worrying about who speaks for whom in liberal and postmodern identity politics, democratic theory must address why it demands what it does from sufferers in exchange for pro…
From the Love Studio
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
No Demos in the Pandemic
That the present moment ties multiple crises together—not least because each is a future of pasts that wound(ed) through each other—must be factored into our intercessions and visions. If every crisis is also a call to order, then what order, old or new, does the pandemic call us to? Its literality provokes us to keep both the pan and the demos in sight, just as they are being extinguished through borders, disease, poverty, insecurity, hatred, an…
Eyes at a Distance of Six Feet
He stood six feet away from meGloves, mask, and helmet-like hat on his headOnly his eyes were openGlaring, peeking, surveying, gazing, smiling, crying,Eyes that recall a little, eyes that forget so muchEyes seen one last time before someone is capturedAt home, going to work, teaching children at school, strolling in a park, going shopping,Eyes seen being covered with a hoodIn the wrinkles of the faces of the mothers of the disappeared protesting …
Colonialism
Colonialism refers to a range of violent and unjust acts of encounter, conquest, control, and settlement of lands and communities by those who did not originally inhabit those lands. This involves the formation—material, sensible, psychic, epistemic, spatial, affective, linguistic, ideological—of new communities that strongly identify with, and are legitimized and authorized by, what the newcomers have left behind. This formation of new communiti…
On the Conditions of the Possibility of Our Anticolonial Synaesthetics
History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · History (2 works)