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By Nancy K. Florida
Published: 01 January 1995
DOI: 10.1215/9780822378662-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7866-2
Series: New Americanists
Published: 01 January 2000
DOI: 10.1215/9780822398004-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9800-4
Series: New Americanists
Published: 01 January 2000
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380979-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8097-9
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373094-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7309-4
Series: Perverse modernities
Published: 22 July 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393801-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9380-1
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 01 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822391319-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9131-9
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By Ed Cohen
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 01 January 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2394-4
...Invoking Healing ...
Series: Singles
Published: 11 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027645-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2764-5
... 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...
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By Gerald M. Sider
Published: 21 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375043-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7504-3
... 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...
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By Sarah Nuttall, Brenda Hollweg
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 01 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059417-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5941-7
... 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...
Published: 12 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373209-016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7320-9
... 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...
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By Anand Pandian, Walter Murch
Published: 02 November 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7516-6
...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...
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060581-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6058-1
... 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...
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By Achille Mbembe, Steven Corcoran
Book: Brutalism
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 24 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2772-0
... 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...
Published: 21 February 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060468-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6046-8
... 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 ...
Published: 12 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059097-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5909-7
... 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...
Published: 21 February 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060369-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6036-9
... 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...
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By Eunjung Kim
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373513-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7351-3
... 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...
Published: 06 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027317-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2731-7
... 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...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373094-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7309-4
... 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...