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... remembrance historical sites Korean national division ...

...); and the time-travel film 2009 Lost Memories (Lee Si-myung, 2002). In contrast to the stasis of the actual DMZ as a historical site and truce memorial, the DMZ in filmic representations within the first Korean Wave embraced its touristic potential; though transmuted to an imagined national park and dislodged...

... (Chŏng Yun-su, 2002); and the time-travel film 2009 Lost Memories (Lee Si-myung, 2002). In contrast to the stasis of the actual DMZ as a historical site and truce memorial, the DMZ in filmic representations within the first Korean Wave embraced its touristic potential; though transmuted to an imagined...

... The conclusion examines efforts in the 2010s and early 2020s to remember (and forget) queer and trans histories on Polk Street and the Mid-Market corridor, two sites where the kids’ performative economy took root. The conclusion shows how the city and business interests are using the arts...

... Eastern and Western Europe. Whereas in the core European Union countries historical drama is experiencing a revival as a site of both historical revision and good business, in the East television has become a major site of postsocialist nostalgia, a phenomenon widely understood as a devalued, immature...

... Chapter one moves through a historical, biographical, and anecdotal account Charania's mother, exploring through various family stories and migratory sites the everyday conditions of abjection and dispossession that shape brown maternal life. Weaving together stories of brown mothers, hers...

... occurs outside historical context. In the specific historical context of slavery, the attribution of disability to the female captive body, for instance, enabled this body to become a site where the flesh became the prime commodity of exchange in the violent conflation of profit and pleasure. The essay...

... The introduction, “Theorizing in the Chinese Century,” gives an overview of the book’s historical contexts, theoretical questions, methodologies, and ethnographic sites, as well as chapter descriptions. It includes substantive overviews of racial capitalism, colonialism, empire, and racial...

... The second chapter advances a critique of the structural binaries that guide much of the contemporary debate on technology: historical discontinuity and continuity, autonomy and heteronomy, technophilia and technophobia. In each case, it proposes to break with the theoretical coordinates...

... provides the philosophical and historical groundwork to study life science laboratories as idiosyncratic sites of embodied knowledge production processes. contamination control microbiological cleanrooms isolator technologies sterile regimes epistemological pluralism ...

... Chapter 1, “Palimpsest City,” provides a layered history of contemporary Chinese world making. The chapter is based in two sites in Johannesburg: the “mining belt mall,” a symbol of post-2000 Chinese developments along the old mining belt, and the city’s two Chinatowns, which illustrate...

... The introduction sets the spatial coordinates and theoretical analytic for Geologic Life and introduces some of the book’s key terminology. Geologic Life argues for the geophysical underpinnings of Life and race as mutually constituted through a historical geography of colonial geology...

... The final chapter focuses on the basin of the Northern Dvina River, which originates from a confluence of the Sukhona and Yug Rivers at Veliky Ustiug. One of the most important sites is the small town of Solvychegodsk, once the center of commercial operations for the Stroganov dynasty. After...

... War in their moments of dispersion, decay, and deterioration, this chapter examines a contemporary representation of the defining event of the Korean twentieth century along with its commercial brand of historicism. These film sites function as what are referred to as transient monuments , which...

... of lifestyle programming in China Taiwan, and India, as well as the cultural economy of genres and formats in these sites. Combining policy analysis with institutional and historical snapshots, interviews with industry staffers, and mapping of television schedules and ratings, we outline the political...

... and a time of their own. First, I turn to khwājasarāʾ and hijṛā historical subjectivities to account for the distemporalizing effects as well as some potentially productive tensions between present-day khwajasara and hijra views of the(ir) past and those of the(ir) historians. Second, I briefly...

... “Biennial Conversions at the Borders of Liberalism: An Introduction” sets the stage for the book's core historical and conceptual contributions. It introduces the concept of “biennial conversions” by describing the art biennial form, with its site-specific and heteronomous aspirations...

... the relationships between key protagonists of this history—Sakalava royal monarchs, highland Merina officials, Indian traders, Comorian migrants, and French colonizers—and provides a broad historical context for Mahajanga's founding and expansion. This chapter posits buildings as oft-overlooked, but crucial sites...

... This chapter draws from ethnographic and cognitive-historical studies of laboratories in the bioengineering sciences to examine how cognition and culture are intimately entwined in research practices. It focuses on the hybrid physical simulation models (“devices”) through which biomedical...