In Search of Agonist Time

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ID20106198
AuthorsMichael A Figueroa (corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume63
Issue2
Pages81-94
Publication date2025-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnglish Language Notes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-8282 • E-ISSN: 2573-3575
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00138282-11959105
OpenAlexW7134819015
LanguageEN
References cited18

In this essay, the author explores the potential that ethnomusicology holds for studying the past’s instrumental narratives, reflecting on their long-standing research about the conflicted city of Jerusalem and the hegemonic spatiotemporal order at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Drawing substantially from the critical insights of Michel Foucault and Chantal Mouffe, and their commentators, the author theorizes genealogy as a means for critique, arguing that its temporal and political agonisms can offer guidance for interrogating the past’s lies and divesting from what they term liberal critique, a failure of imagination outside the present’s spatiotemporal order

Ethnomusicology · Hegemony · Order (exchange) · Politics · Power (physics) · Term (time) · Diverse Musicological Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Music History and Culture

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