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By Joanna Frueh, Joanna Frueh
Published: 21 February 2008
DOI: 10.1215/9780822390466-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9046-6
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By Evelyn B. Pluhar
Published: 01 January 1995
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9604-8
Published: 01 January 1995
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9604-8
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By John Quigley
Published: 01 January 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386766-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8676-6
Published: 01 January 1995
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9604-8
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 17 March 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024378-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2437-8
Published: 01 January 1999
DOI: 10.1215/9780822397229-020
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9722-9
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By Gary Y. Okihiro
Published: 19 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059653-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5965-3
... Imperialism, both discursive and material, extended European rule over the earth. Geographic and biological determinisms explained superior and inferior human varieties (races), justifying extraterritorial powers, and taxonomy named, classified, and ranked all life-forms, installing order amid...
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By Eli Clare
Published: 13 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373520-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7352-0
... This section explores some of the ways in which cure is connected to violence. Because defectiveness justifies cure and makes it essential, this exploration starts with the word and concept defect and how its power relies on ableism. In turn, defectiveness is used to justify many forms...
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By Gary Y. Okihiro
Published: 12 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373834-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7383-4
... Consciousness and the formation of the subject-self, or subjectification, can work against the state’s intentions for schooling. (European) humanism’s positivist articulation of the self consorted with patriarchy and imperialism to justify and advance nationalism, racism, conquest, colonization...
Published: 30 June 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027133-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2713-3
... in this chapter, mostly women, accepted that obligation in a manner that led them, at times, to become animal. The chapter asks what it means for humans to “become animal” and how this process represents an indifference to the species boundaries that compel and justify violence. sight affect interspecies...
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By Gary Y. Okihiro
Published: 19 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059653-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5965-3
... Subjectification is the creation of the subject, as opposed to the object, revealing the exertions of power to objectify and the agency of subjects to resist. Humanism’s positivist “I think therefore I am” advanced an optimistic appraisal of the (European) human condition but also justified...
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By Joseph R. Winters
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 10 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374084-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7408-4
..., this chapter show how a certain logic of progress operates on both sides of the political and ideological spectrum. While the image of racial progress is seductive, the introduction argues that it too often undermines our capacity to remember and contemplate the violence that is both justified and denied...
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By Kristin Peterson, Valerie Olson
Published: 19 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059141-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5914-1
... corresponding data sets: the specific array of information, from archival data to interview data, needed to answer the scoping question. Corresponding data-gathering questions are then developed, which define and justify the fieldwork plan. Ultimately, data-gathering questions guide the data sets needed...
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By Hagar Kotef
Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Published: 09 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375753-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7575-3
..., thereby justifying it. It then asks about the possibility of forming different coalitions in the struggle for justice. Reviel Netz regulation of movement violence justice subject positions ...
Published: 13 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373520-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7352-0
...Introduction<subtitle>Writing a Mosaic</subtitle> The introduction lays out the central contradictions of cure: cure saves lives, manipulates lives, prioritizes lives, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body and mind loss. These tensions are called a knot...
Published: 05 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375333-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7533-3
..., movement, and the free act as pure and original facts that justify themselves by their mere presence, and dispels the illusory perspective of finality, disorder, and indifference that gives rise to skepticism. nothingness; creation; possibility; intuition ...
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374022-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7402-2
... and historically coherent self, the metaphor is often employed to justify the fragmentation of experience and temporal disorientation. A case study that I use is the reconstruction and gentrification of Beijing’s Qianmen district in 2008. Buildings, billboards, and digital screens have formed together a contiguous...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060123-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... This chapter challenges the centrality of the logic of exclusion—the view that race is politically and socially significant only when race identification is explicitly or implicitly used to justify discrimination—in the understanding of race injustice. It explores the political-symbolic...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 05 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374480-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7448-0
... Global health institutions and interventions are dependent on the production of local health data in the Global South for evaluating and justifying their projects. The crucial labor of producing these local health data is often rendered invisible by the neutral use of metrics by global health...