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... conceived of as both utopian and egalitarian. The visual and verbal strategies that accompanied the rise of the girlscape are related to the highly political “landscape theory” developed in Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s—a prominent discussion of how power structures life in a rapidly transforming...

... of a consumer culture conceived of as both utopian and egalitarian. The visual and verbal strategies that accompanied the rise of the girlscape are related to the highly political “landscape theory” developed in Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s—a prominent discussion of how power structures life...

.... Geographic and spatial theory is wielded as a way to think about African American influence on a changing nation. How do artists see and capture this new political landscape? And how does art by African Americans in the postwar period set out to respatialize the world as we know it? geography spatial...

... The book concludes by returning to the relationship between affect and postsecularism, highlighting how affect theory complicates secularism by diagramming the flows of power moving outside the field of language. Language and belief themselves, it is argued, are the result of what George Levine...

... In the introduction I contend that Mexican and U.S. geographies are the effect of visualizing indios and Indians in landscape. If national boundaries and the way in which we visualize national geographies are derived from the racializing of space through the figure of the Indian, then "racial...

... This chapter investigates the significance of the apocalyptic landscape and zombie figure in Díaz’s short story “Monstro.” It focuses on the zombie within the Caribbean context to suggest that this particular incarnation mirrors the history of capital-based societies with their Western...

... claims. Within the context of American settler colonialism, white geology provided the material praxis and the geomythos of the populist science of white supremacy through geologists’ theories on race. The chapter demonstrates how white geology made the nation-state of America materially manifest...

... the desert as complicit with the government, its temperatures and remote landscape a weapon against people attempting to cross state borders. The author draws on theories of the sacred to understand how the Sonoran Desert escapes capture, meandering in ways that often defy and unsettle PTD. The chapter draws...

...Theories and Methods for an Archipelagic American Studies This chapter examines the heuristics of various geographical metaphors that shape theoretical and empirical analyses, especially in the social sciences and humanities. Some of the most important geographical metaphors have been...

... that marked the lives of Yugoslavs in the 1990s. This chronology offers a sense of the tragic intertwinement of the people, places, events, and destructive forces that governed them, and of the landscapes, lives, and selves altered forever by the catastrophe. chronology tragedy Yugoslav wars ...

... The Afterword closes on contemporary arts and architectural practices, learning from work commissioned as part of the process of writing this book, which honors the landscape of pasts and futures a refugee camp opens onto, and tests the arguments made in these pages. “Poetry is a weapon that we...

... are engaged in complementary critical projects. Drown women of color theory feminism race This chapter provides a black, Atlantic reading of Díaz’s diasporic craft, particularly his sharp-witted eloquence in representing the complexities of Afro-Latinidad and black-brown alliances. It argues...

... with Maganai Saddiq Hassan's farm, a lush, green cultivated area on an assigned plot within the arid landscape of Dagaheley refugee camp, imbricating the history of enslavement behind her agricultural skill with that of Dadaab's marginal territory, the colonial and postcolonial manyattas (villages...