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...Invoking Healing ...

... Chapter 3 explores the collision and cross-pollination of rap and country music before “Old Town Road.” As far back as the 1980s, rap songs were invoking country imagery even when the underlying tracks were not built around country musicality. By the turn of the millennium, the shifting of rap's...

... This chapter covers suburbs and stables, the GI Bill of Rights and race, Ford and Fordism, yammering, getting high, Max Weber and Michel Foucault and their fantasies of control, and “floating” states and democracies. It invokes Prometheus and the rock chained to each other, and how that matters...

... This chapter explores the manifold ways in which Penny Siopis’s transnational essay film The New Parthenon invokes “the concentrationary” (David Rousset): a logic of destruction and violation against the human that did not vanish with the defeat of Nazi Germany or the end of the Second World War...

... Josephine Baker invoked islands in her music, and embodied them—in all of their variety—in dozens of unique performances. She costumed and presented herself as a fixture of the oceanic colonial world, of those places where people and power came together outside of the metropole and outside...

...Foreword Murch calls attention to the essential place of improvisation and intuition in filmmaking practice, invoking examples from the Tamil filmmaking scenes in the book as well as his own experience as a filmmaker and editor. Calling on the work of Jean Cocteau, Francis Ford Coppola...

... imaginaries render the binary oppositions between realism and science fiction, modernism and postmodernism incomprehensible. “Visionary fiction, cataclysm” is the third term the essay invokes to think through these cultural formations and their capacity to rewrite the bourgeois science fiction realisms...

... This book invokes the notion of brutalism to describe an age gripped by the planetary-scale pathos of demolition and by the production of darkness and all sorts of waste, leftover traces of a gigantic demiurgy. The aim is not to write the sociology or political economy of brutalization, nor...

... that still reign. Various authors of fiction and poetry are invoked and elaborated as embodying this poetics of oceanic becoming and sympoetic world-making. borderwaters ocean commons blue humanities global-local local ...

... This chapter focuses on figures of Black women and girls as they circulate through Us , Jordan Peele's 2019 film. The uncanniness that Peele invokes by mobilizing the horror of the doppelgänger enables a closer examination of Black women's fraught and multiple relations to desire, home...

... workers, followed by an overview of key traditions such as planting by the signs, biblical charms, and traditional medicine. Although these descriptions can invoke stereotypes of Appalachian people, granny witches and their kinfolk are part of a bricolage of Appalachian identities that reconfigure...

... of the inheritance of disability. Heredity is also invoked as a justification for rejecting marriage to a person with disabilities. Under the military regime, eugenics was legalized as a way to control the reproduction of disability. In the new millennium, preimplantation genetic screening appears as a way to enable...

... This chapter explores a series of gender transgressive performances in three Pakistani films. While the narratives of all three films serve to essentially restore the heteronormative patriarchal order, gender-bending performances temporarily invoke and make claims on particular kinds of gendered...

... The introduction presents the key questions the book addresses and draws on its chapters to outline an approach to cultural diversity in scientific practice. It begins by laying out both the attractions of invoking a concept of culture in studies of science and the main difficulties that often...