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... itself vary across time, space, and social strata. Against this backdrop, it concludes by providing a succinct overview of the book’s chapters and how they intertwine to form an overall argument. history of the present end of history historical imaginary political imaginary ...

... Chapter 2 spotlights the ways in which fascists intensify nationalism’s Janus-faced historical imaginary. It specifically identifies tensions between the modernizing ideals of Chinese fascists and their professed desires to revive ancient Confucian values. This position constituted a reaction...

...Dreaming in Afro Hall reflects on artist Chris Ofili’s work and how Ofili’s excessive visual imagination is saturated with the imagery of the diasporic black imaginary. Chris Ofili black diaspora visual art Hall challenges simplistic conceptions of Africa as a uniform...

... This chapter explores how some of the historical relations between authority and suspicion work to constitute modern democratic politics and shape modern liberal social imaginaries in order to better understand the contemporary predicaments of Muslims in Euro-America. It highlights a central...

... How did revolutionary literature deal with issues of youth, love, sex/sexuality, and their various implications? This chapter argues that youth was in fact a key component in revolutionary literature, and that the imaginary of youth constituted a particular historical practice through which...

.... Against the specter of a collectivist rationale, the logic of individual responsibility exists within an East-West moral imaginary. This chapter explores a historically particular phase of late life, the third age, by analyzing one of its hallmark institutions, the University of the Third Age...

... and reflected the sharp class, cultural, and ideological tensions that continue in Tunisia. The mythscapes produced in these different historical moments relied on very different forms of Tunisian and transnational affiliation, historical reference points, and gendered imaginaries and projects. Intense...

... are spatial and historical configurations assembled and reconfigured, often shaped by imperial and postcolonial processes and imaginaries. “Archipe-logics” study the structures of worldwide entanglements and seek the poetics of Relation. archipelagic thinking geography Édouard Glissant ...

... Secularism is not approached only from the Western perspective, but debated in relation to different experiences. This chapter introduces the theoretical frame in studying different historical trajectories and cultural habitations of the secular. Comparison between Turkish laiklik and French...

... This chapter discusses the gendered nature of the public sphere that characterizes secular modernization projects in Muslim-majority countries, especially in Turkey. By means of a critical reading of two novels, written in two different historical moments of secularism and Islam, it analyzes...

... Actively seeking to rethink and transcend the geographic boundaries and periodization schemes that a nation-state-driven historical account solidifies, historians of the Atlantic world have developed tools to escape this methodological prison. Instead of thinking of the nation-state...

.... Disrupting the dominant tenets of the colonial matrix of materiality (as geos) that secured imaginaries of Life (bios) through racial violence and inhuman extraction, the chapter presents the theory of geologic life to speak to the antagonisms between inhuman (geos) and Life (partial bios...

... This chapter focuses on the Caribbean archipelago as a geopolitical and historical unit. An archipelago actually combines groups of islands and their corresponding networks of ports, fortifications, plantations, and cities, as well as their social, cultural, and productive systems. The first...

... title, residents claimed land in various ways, from invoking historical loss and racial injustice to establishing gardens and community centers, mowing fields, and squatting in houses. Such caretaking of interstitial lands at the margins of the private property system illuminates a reworked vision...

...Insular Imaginaries This chapter focuses on the Caribbean archipelago as a geopolitical and historical unit. An archipelago actually combines groups of islands and their corresponding networks of ports, fortifications, plantations, and cities, as well as their social, cultural, and productive...

... fixed geographic formations. In this view, archipelagos are spatial and historical configurations assembled and reconfigured, often shaped by imperial and postcolonial processes and imaginaries. “Archipe-logics” study the structures of worldwide entanglements and seek the poetics of Relation...

... of the rise of al-Qa‘ida. national security fictions al-Qa‘ida terrorism expertise conspiracy law This chapter explores how some of the historical relations between authority and suspicion work to constitute modern democratic politics and shape modern liberal social imaginaries in order...

...-, and transarchipelagic relations.  Guam Pacific indigenous studies imperialism This chapter focuses on the Caribbean archipelago as a geopolitical and historical unit. An archipelago actually combines groups of islands and their corresponding networks of ports, fortifications, plantations, and cities...