... This chapter locates the value in Obstruction ’s most toxic and seemingly irredeemable blockage, the cynicism whose pervasiveness in television and regularity in academe have strong, telling correspondences. Looking to television, then, proves useful for the scholar who wishes not to get mired...

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... prejudices, and power structures. This scene is the starting point of a meditation on the quandary of doing anthropology in the Middle East, with the singular tensions between hope and cynicism, cheerfulness and negativity that undermine political debates. bioethics health inequalities cynicism...

... bureaucracy were cautious about organizing an insurrection as Lenin would have done in those circumstances. James outlines how the theory of the United Front was developed by the Communist International in this period, but how this was cynically misinterpreted to avoid organizing a rising. The paralysis...

... reading of the Web series Drunk History , whose stunning yet unsettling arrangement of embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness suggests, finally, a tempering or modesty in the uptake of obstructive work or in the affirmation of obstruction’s value. Likewise, if the present...

..., cultural prejudices, and power structures. This scene is the starting point of a meditation on the quandary of doing anthropology in the Middle East, with the singular tensions between hope and cynicism, cheerfulness and negativity that undermine political debates. bioethics health inequalities...

... principal mode is satire; it mixes topical and regular features; it’s directed at working-class Mexicans; it’s chauvinistic about Mexico but cynical about the country’s political class; its “editorial” perspective is mostly male even when channeled through female personas; it mocks and celebrates working...

... misunderstandings; distortions introduced by some kinds of outside “help”; false trails towards empowerment; cynical manipulations of new discourses towards neo-liberal ends. The goal was to put up warnings signs, not to discourage the urgent impetus to create structures in which international feminism can struggle...

... regime, the rosca , the domestic influence of foreign oil companies, and the Chaco War, came out in 1935. While Marof himself held a left-nationalist position, he argued that the Bolivian and Paraguayan governments were cynically exploiting nationalist sentiment to the detriment of working-class...

... misunderstandings; distortions introduced by some kinds of outside “help”; false trails towards empowerment; cynical manipulations of new discourses towards neo-liberal ends. The goal was to put up warnings signs, not to discourage the urgent impetus to create structures in which international feminism can struggle...

... about organizing an insurrection as Lenin would have done in those circumstances. James outlines how the theory of the United Front was developed by the Communist International in this period, but how this was cynically misinterpreted to avoid organizing a rising. The paralysis of the German Communists...

... out in 1935. While Marof himself held a left-nationalist position, he argued that the Bolivian and Paraguayan governments were cynically exploiting nationalist sentiment to the detriment of working-class soldiers who fought in the arduous conditions of the Chaco and to the benefit of foreign interests...