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Published: 31 July 1990
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382836-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8283-6
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 01 October 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376668-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7666-8
Published: 13 April 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372479-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7247-9
Published: 10 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027423-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2742-3
... are already using housing struggles as a gateway to more profound changes: it entails micropolitical attention to how one dwells in the world and to forms of inhabitation that are detached from, and opposed to, the expulsion and extraction structuring current ideals of home. micropolitics inhabitation...
Series: Sinotheory
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059066-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5906-6
... affair. In these stories, the coming and going of queer sexualities are inconspicuous, nonchalant, and even detached. The imagery of the public toilet, an oft-used queer symbol in Cui’s writing, surfaces here again to provide a duly queer parody of the solemn. queer storytelling urban life...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-085
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... The events and consequences of the insurrection of April 1952 captured international attention. While the United States followed developments anxiously, the British ambassador in La Paz, John Garnett Lomax, could afford more detachment. His annual diplomatic report, intended only for other...
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By Jean Ma
Published: 13 May 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375623-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7562-3
... corporeally anchored and mechanically detachable, coexisting with but not necessarily belonging to the onscreen singer. The ambivalence of the voice in turn points to the specific assumptions about performance and stardom operative in this period. Chung Ching [Zhong Qing] Yao Lee dubbing sound...
Published: 04 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059820-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9418-0
... As one military regime gave way to another, the distance between soldiers and civilians grew. By the 1990s, the Nigerian military was a self-supporting structure, largely detached from the civilians it had once served. Critics began to describe it as a “cult.” During the dictatorship of General...
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By Michele Lancione
Published: 10 November 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2742-3
... who are already using housing struggles as a gateway to more profound changes: it entails micropolitical attention to how one dwells in the world and to forms of inhabitation that are detached from, and opposed to, the expulsion and extraction structuring current ideals of home. micropolitics...
Published: 17 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375364-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7536-4
... rational nor detached, but instead grows out of an absolutist commandment (“a human is a human”) that has an almost religious force—a zealous humanism. Inevitably, such zealous commitment encounters limits, which humanitarian volunteers (like the monks in the film) experienced and reflected upon...
Published: 18 June 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375609-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7560-9
...-detachment. The guide’s performative construction of their subjectivity elucidates the complex process of “commodification” of transnational service industry workers. freedom commodities immaterial work value affect ...
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060093-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6009-3
... to division. The production of divisibility generated new infrastructural attachments as it reconfigured boundaries between public and private, state and corporation, citizens and shareholders. New and discomfiting forms of both attachment and detachment—encapsulated by the (re)emergence of the corporate...
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373230-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7323-0
... within the ghost. The human body as meat, the rag-human under torture, still refuses to die a death not of its choosing. The othered subject at work finds in the shadows of night a community of the dead and a means of escape through doubling, reflection, imagination, and bodily detachment...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 02 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375326-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7532-6
... changes in radio, recording, and film sound, the consolidation of mass-media machines in Hollywood, and his widely publicized adherence to middle-class norms of masculinity and assimilated Irish Catholicism: patriarchy and traditional family values, emotional detachment, earned wealth, religious devotion...
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By Lieba Faier
Published: 13 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059523-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9407-4
... with their clients and their ethical dispositions to their work. It contrasts the IOM protocols with those that NGOs had independently developed to protect their clients. It argues that insofar as the IOM protocols endeavor to manage data about NGO clients only during the official assistance process, they detach...
Published: 13 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059523-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9407-4
... The conclusion maintains that despite recent revisions of global protocols to fight human trafficking, these efforts are still inadequate and detached from the needs of those whom these protocols aim to assist. It demonstrates that in efforts to fight human trafficking to Japan...
Published: 19 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059400-015
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5940-0
... pulls out from diary pages of seemingly incoherent scribblings some vital moments of world-(un)making, living, detachments, attachments, carings, refusals, and disaffections. This essay offers an embodied sense of queerness as a refuge, a refusal, a placeless nowhere-ishness, a hopeful elsewhere-ishness...
Published: 25 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060079-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6007-9
... Robin Hood in the Untenured Forest: Chapter 3 traces how the Acrean state made forest carbon’s new international value into a kind of public wealth it then redistributed to some rural people. It did so by detaching forest carbon’s value from land, obviating the need to settle pervasively...
Published: 10 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373049-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7304-9
... on the illusion of the critic’s superiority to the literary text and detachment from the “real world,” where ideologies operate in ways that only a transcendent critical perspective can perceive. A different critical disposition—hopefulness—would bring imaginative idealism back to the study of literature, making...
Published: 10 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7304-9
... of a more socially relevant role for criticism, namely, its capacity for articulating ideals that would make criticism an opportunity for imagining more just social relations. Critique today relies on the illusion of the critic’s superiority to the literary text and detachment from the “real world,” where...