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... particularism and universalism reshaped the narratives of modernism. Négritude African independence anticolonialism Black modernity global turn ...

... of the nation-state in this turn toward the global factory / electronic cottage. scientific management in home/factory global factory electronic cottage ...

... In chapter four, Shankar excavates the racialized global politics of Sahaayaka's founder Ramaswamy's raced, casteized, and classed ideologies undergirding his need to frequently visit rural schools. In turn, Shankar deploys the Freirian framework of “fatal pragmatism” to show how Ramaswmay's...

... Taking up the infrastructure of transportation, this chapter turns to the California freeway fictions of Octavia Butler and Karen Tei Yamashita in order to articulate the relationship of infrastructural divestment to coerced migration, so-called free trade, and the myth of the parasitic...

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... The chapter elaborates an emergent regional category and global-local vision of an Asia Pacific “ocean commons” coming to be called “Oceania” as an archipelagic interzone spread inside and across the Pacific Ocean from coastal California to Asia and Australia. This oceanic turn also reflects...

... the enactment of the UN’s global counter–human trafficking campaign. The chapter focuses on the explicitly acknowledged inconsistencies and contradictions of these recommended guidelines, asking what they accomplish for this campaign and whom these accomplishments serve. It argues, first, that these guidelines...

..., this chapter underscores the exhibition as a turning point that backgrounded questions of identity so as to foreground an inclusive and ecumenical approach to shared conditions of globality that are everywhere inflected by granular differentiations of locality. documentary film installation...

... do more than place in relief US militarization efforts and longstanding practices and commitments to empire building in the Antilles: they focalize a turn in US geopolitics and national defense strategy away from isolationism and toward an understanding of the world as a global theater of potential...

... of corporatized neoliberal development agendas and corresponding shifts in gendered figurations at the turn of the millennium. Highlighting new players within the global constellation through which GBVAW (gender-based violence against women) circulates, the chapter shows how international organizations pull...

...). This genealogy, however, doubled as ideology: as exemplified by his Nazism, Schmitt’s inquiries into the “origins of politics” turned into a “politics of the origin” (a decision on who, by birth, was an internal enemy). Galli concludes by explaining how Schmitt’s theory of passage has itself, in the global age...

... sketch of the timeline of the expansion of US judicial territory and its changing relationship to US empire and global capitalism. These large-scale dynamics, the chapter goes on to explain, emerge from the iterative redefinition of key legal dichotomies, especially the public/private, political/legal...

... This essay offers an ethnographic entrée into Havana’s annual Hip Hop Festival as a site of overlapping and, at times, asymmetrical articulations of revolutionary internationalism at the millennial turn. The performative terrain of Cuban hip hop, Perry argues, offers a dynamic space in which...

..., but also into Europe and the global economy. Their successes at accessing the pleasures and possibilities of consumption, hard won as they may be, are also cruelly fleeting. This chapter finds the homeless’ turn toward consumer stimulation to manage the felt affects of alienation to be part of the problem...

... Chapter 3 explores the complex interactions of technology, culture, and taste that have turned bluefin tuna, an apex predator of the oceans, into a highly valued and endangered commodity. It starts by plunging into a pen of farmed southern bluefin tuna and then follows Croatian and Italian...

... of hallyu cinema, and shows how in these texts hallyu celebrities, who have themselves become global commodities, turn to travel and travel images as a way of identifying and coming to terms with the phenomenon they have engendered. By representing and selling their own experiences of tourism...