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... contributes to the transformation of identities. TLC Taiwan imagined mobility movement capital ...

... TLC Taiwan imagined mobility movement capital ...

... spatial configuration geopolitical imagination world regionalization scheme critical geopolitics mental map Atlantic history empire imagined community political border mobility ...

... different potential archival imaginations. The chapter explores the particular intensity of archival power in the context of Israel/Palestine, and therefore the urgency to mobilize the archive to imagine otherwise, toward “becoming Palestine.” archive future imagination Palestine Israel history ...

... Innovators in payment make big claims for how their new applications and services will profoundly change money. But few of their services have taken off. One that has, and that has had a huge impact on how “money disruptors” imagine they can remake the future of money, is M-Pesa. M-Pesa...

... geopolitics mental map Atlantic history empire imagined community political border mobility ...

... NGO is imagined as a site for economic mobility. However, racialized assumptions regarding those who come from traditional agricultural occupations follow and constrain fieldworkers as they seek to negotiate their positions within the NGO. land dispossession racialization of agricultural castes...

... Chapter 6 explores the Women2Drive campaign and other online and offline interventions that challenge restrictions on women’s mobility in Saudi Arabia. It argues that the driving campaign is an example of cautious gender politics to demand the lifting of the ban on women driving in ways...

... Chapter 6 argues that the application of stratigraphy organized the material production and imagination of empire, as stratigraphy was applied to race. Theoretical geology provided the conceptual armature that initiated an epoch of vertical thinking for surface gain, which in turn opened...

... Chapter 2 is the first of three chapters that pivot around imaginative geographies, focusing on how people’s engagements with lifestyle television involve imagining place at a range of scales, from the perceived relation between regional localities and national metropolises to the relation...

... The introduction sets forth the relationship between language and historical imagination in the making of the Philippine nation-state and the U.S. Empire from the perspective of translation. Conceived as a practical act that entails an ethical stance, translation is as much about speech...

... The world has never produced as much knowledge as it does today. Most of it is about life processes and mechanical and physico-chemical procedures. Some of it consists of unique acts of creation and imagination. Many have as their function the invention of mobile forces, situated...

... It was common for missionaries and their contemporaries to describe mission stations as “enchanter’s wands,” imagining these settlements as potent engines of social transformation. This chapter interrogates this tradition of thought, exploring the symbolic importance of the mission station...

...Written Cities Part VII, “Written Cities,” looks at the city’s vast archive of literature, visual arts, and nonfiction writing to highlight recurrent themes in efforts to represent and imagine Buenos Aires. Documents explore visual and written representations of the city and its neighborhoods...

..., the education NGO is imagined as a site for economic mobility. However, racialized assumptions regarding those who come from traditional agricultural occupations follow and constrain fieldworkers as they seek to negotiate their positions within the NGO. In chapter nine, Shankar leaves Bangalore and heads...

... This chapter examines the Greater Antillean routes in Díaz’s work to unveil how the Caribbean, a central site of the modern era’s most intense mobility of people, as a point of departure or destination, has given rise to diasporic formations. It places Díaz in relation to his peers...

... of destruction, the artists suggest they may also become the site from where to rethink destruction and reimagine the possibility of revival—of becoming. Mobilizing several key conceptual features of modern archaeology (“ruins,” but also “the artifact” and the idea of “ancient civilizations”), the work revisits...

... Chapter 1, “Mad Is a Place,” serves as the book’s introduction. It opens by staging a phantasmagoric encounter between a slave ship and a ship of fools. From this imagined scenario, the chapter unfurls a broad survey of various collisions and convergences of “blackness” and “madness” in Western...

... that didn’t anticipate them. They permit readers to feel—however fleetingly—that they are encountering something that did not foresee their readership. The feeling of being an eavesdropper is a profound device that Black feminists have mobilized with a particular intensity in the period of Black Lives Matter...

... political histories are contested, rewritten, and mobilized to explain present-day conditions. Popular music and everyday narrative memory-making act as sites where political authority is imagined and reimagined, where official celebrations of past rulers are reworked, and where alternative histories...