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... Lecture 4, “Enlightenment(s),” starts with a “typical” presentation of the Enlightenment but then proposes two revisions: first, seeing the enlightenment as made up of multiple, fragmented, and even contradictory elements and enlightenments; and second, understanding the counter-enlightenments...

... are concentric, discontinuous, contradictory, antidialectical. Exponential times and spaces cross, disrupt, propel, and re-create one another. Empires have been terrorized by this overwhelming excess even as they feel themselves seduced by sensuous disorientation. transpacific empire ocean history ...

... incomplete, contradictory, and out of control. Exploring how whiteness was both metaphorically and literally intertwined in Charania's mother's every day and how it thus visceralized a collection of negativities, this chapter explicitly narrates the stakes in the distinctions and slippages between brownness...

... the contradictory calls for embodiment, focusing on a politics of the senses to try to understand the erasure of difference with regard to immigrant bodies, which must be cleansed and sanitized, and the simultaneous recognition of that very difference. I argue that these contexts say more about Western notions...

... at the intersection of post–Cold War and post-socialist transformations, a circumstance that enabled Korean Chinese to claim their long-forgotten kinship with the forbidden homeland of South Korea. By highlighting the contradictory desires Korean Chinese have developed in relation to Yanbian as an un/homely homeland...

... and transnational refugee regimes, the chapter suggests a queer anthropological approach that analyzes the state as a contradictory and transnational assemblage of multilayered institutions, people, and practices that unevenly map the geopolitics of sex and sexuality. queer states geopolitics queer...

... the contradictory meanings and appropriations of vernacular gramophone records, and, drawing on examples from Hawaii to Cuba, India to North Africa, it argues that phonograph recordings became a fundamental part of the cultural revolution that was decolonization, both through their direct connections to national...

... This chapter examines colonial-era debates over the shifting location of Korean literature, which emerged in response to contradictory demands on colonial culture within the Japanese empire. The spectre of the absent nation is palpable in these and other cultural debates at this time, and rather...

..., their communities, the village of Enayetpur, and its surrounding areas during an initial eight-month period of fieldwork in western Bangladesh. The contradictory subject positions of the war heroines show that they are trying to carve out their own definition of being a birangona . Also, the interplay between...

... This chapter addresses the apparently contradictory idea of a queer popular. Queerness is that which destabilizes systems and norms, and thus it seems opposed to cultural normalcy. Yet what are we to make of wildly popular gay-themed films from Bollywood, Nollywood, and Southeast Asia...

... This concluding chapter revisits and extends the arguments developed throughout the text. The essays in the book reveal the contradictory faces of the Latin American “Pink Tide” governments of the early 2000s, illustrating the ways policies promoting extractivism, the policing of activism...

... The chapter explores the contradictory impact of mission Christianity on colonial Northern and Southern Nigeria. It contends that in the Northern Nigerian Protectorate mission Christianity provided a formidable framework in which non-Muslim minority communities articulated strategies to resist...

.... In response, the government imprisoned refugee leaders, and UNHCR officials recommended that they be forced to perform hard labor. The chapter thus reveals the contradictory nature of UNHCR policies, as well as officials' unwillingness to understand refugees as political subjects. Mwesi Refugee...

... of whom is nicknamed after a type of fruit. After initially opposing the new policy, the students quickly warm to the new arrangement, and a series of gender-bending and homoerotic entanglements ensue. A cheeky and libidinous meditation on the productive and contradictory nature of binary oppositions...