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Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Published: 11 February 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822399063-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9906-3
Published: 28 December 1990
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382348-016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8234-8
Series: a Public Culture Book
Published: 14 June 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380184-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8018-4
Published: 05 March 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376828-020
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7682-8
Published: 25 January 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387909-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8790-9
Published: 13 April 2012
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394839-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9483-9
Published: 07 October 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7355-1
... banality of evil banality of everyday thought afacement effacing conviction redactic ...
Published: 07 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373551-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7355-1
...” that asserts the sort of shallow articulations of self and other that appealed to Duch and that are often at the heart of mass violence—even as this sort of dynamic is also part of our everyday lives (again, an illustration of the banality of everyday thought). The epilogue concludes by arguing that a key...
Published: 03 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373193-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7319-3
... of banal decisions, activities, affects, and labors. It asks mothers to reinvent family life as a rationalized web of economized care, which in turn promises freedom, independence, autonomy, and security while allaying the affective and material volatilities of precarity. mamapreneur couponing...
Published: 03 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373193-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7319-3
... wars” and give voice to women in their own communities, they draw on theories of affect to understand and articulate mothers’ worlds. The authors elaborate their concept of the digital mundane, where media don’t necessarily stand out as particularly significant but are indistinguishable from the banal...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374848-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7484-8
... overlooked but potent governmental technique that shapes individual and group subjectivities, and also disrupts the moral order of local communities. The chapter builds on and expands Achille Mbembe’s work on the banality of power by illuminating the impact of performative encounters in the bedroom...
Published: 07 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373551-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7355-1
... dynamic echoes the dynamic that took place at S-21 and is more broadly part of our everyday ways of thinking (the banality of everyday thought). judgment verdict juridical truth calibration legalism dock ...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 19 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376279-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7627-9
... regulation congruent with research objectives. I pay close attention to the banal bureaucratic practices that predate the arrival of biomedical research, but also shift to accommodate research work. I argue that social workers, doctors, and scientists have collaboratively created a new kind of regulation...
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373360-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7336-0
... to tobacco have inspired more romance or more disgust or more of both at the same time. Even coal, which enters the body as black lung disease, seems to have stirred fear and excitement more readily than have liquid hydrocarbons. We imagine oil—when we imagine it at all—as persistently banal, nothing more...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 19 January 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7627-9
... the process of making state regulation congruent with research objectives. I pay close attention to the banal bureaucratic practices that predate the arrival of biomedical research, but also shift to accommodate research work. I argue that social workers, doctors, and scientists have collaboratively created...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 01 January 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7484-8
.... The chapter builds on and expands Achille Mbembe’s work on the banality of power by illuminating the impact of performative encounters in the bedroom. The interviews used in this chapter show that the sexual exploitation of female dancers, even in the most rural areas, largely created moral disorder...
Published: 07 October 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7355-1
...” and their connection to juridical power. Here, as before, the articulation-redaction dynamic echoes the dynamic that took place at S-21 and is more broadly part of our everyday ways of thinking (the banality of everyday thought). judgment verdict juridical truth calibration legalism dock ...