... parts: it analyses Žižekian political variants, goes through the examination of the “dirty hands of politics” against the position of the beautiful soul, and ends with reconstructing his idea of communism. state party idea of communism proletariat ideology ...

... modeled on that oral tradition. In this chapter, I give short analyses of these works and the context within which they were published. I follow these with a reading of “He Moolelo no Hamanalau, Hanai a Hawea,” as an example of the riches of Hawaiian-language literature, including a synopsis...

... and refocused their analyses of justice away from social-contextual matters to those of DNA biology. race genomics health disparities biopolitics style of thought ...

... Focusing on Schmitt’s writings on international law, chapter 5 poses the question of whether Schmitt’s analyses of the partisan and of the Cold War are sufficient for grasping the dynamics of an emergent “global age” constituted primarily by “terrorism” and its suppression. After a detailed...

..., the hacendado was gone, but peasants continued to be subjected to the abuse of state officials: in the multiculticultural 2000s, police, physicians, and engineers were owners of the will—particularly the will of the state. Focusing on Nazario’s interactions with state officials, this story analyses...

... a close reading of the dynamics that unfold through everyday activism and by centrally focusing on analyses by the local community, the chapter ultimately tries to offer a rejoinder to dominant depictions of the politics of grievability at the core of the solidarity activism known as “protective...

... Analyses of everyday experiential narratives, television content, and a novel explore the ways in which black people, especially black women, are envisioned in the cultural archive. Among the patterns that come to the fore are sexualization, inferiorization, which includes relegation...

... people interact in them, where everyone moves freely as long as their interests and ideas can be tagged and mined as data. This chapter ends with analyses of Bodies . . . the Exhibition and Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. social media Downtown Project immersive experience augmented space...

... of the Haitian Revolution, and suggests that to comprehend the reality of Haiti today we need some understanding of these historical events. James’s Black Jacobins is presented as an indispensable starting point in such analyses. Bracey reflects on lengthy discussions with James during the latter’s stay...

... This essay uses analyses of Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx and Brad Bird’s film Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol to introduce the central themes of the overall volume. Taking as its starting point a discussion of three passing references to China located at the margins of Derrida’s...

... the reproduction of disabled women. The analyses of literary texts, films, documentaries, and public policies reveal that the mobilization of biopolitics based on the presumed desire for disability’s absence often relies on disability’s continued presence at the margins of society to reinforce its “undesirability...

... and listening. This chapter denaturalizes sign- and discourse-based analyses of sound, proposing in their place a material, sensory-based analysis that assumes sound to be the result of an action rather than the action itself. In this way, this chapter questions the position and origin of the definition...

... To reach some conclusions, the coda recounts and analyses an everyday occurrence at a presentation in the framework of the 150-year anniversary of the abolition of slavery, in 2013. Saidiya Hartman’s moving presentation on the treatment and murder of two enslaved girls aboard a slave ship...

... it operates like a market. In addition, governments as well as antitrafficking advocates are promoting programs that take a market approach. This chapter provides an analysis of the assumptions behind these economic analyses and approaches to human trafficking. It is argued that a market approach...

.... In addition, governments as well as antitrafficking advocates are promoting programs that take a market approach. This chapter provides an analysis of the assumptions behind these economic analyses and approaches to human trafficking. It is argued that a market approach to antitrafficking perpetuates...

...) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The chapter provides critical analyses of landmark national political issues in which major religious developments profoundly transformed the Nigerian state and society, notably the role of ethno-regionalism in the Nigerian-Biafra War in the 1960s and 1970s, the fierce...