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... the liberal subject was embodied. Moreover, movement was the corporeal condition for rationality. This centrality of movement shows that the figure of the abstract, universal subject is a later incarnation of liberal subjectivity and is not integral to liberalism as such. It also explains why some groups...

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... by habit in the development of self-governing liberal subjects. Interpreting habit's repetitions as operating through the channels they inscribed in the body's nervous and neurological systems, these developments reworked earlier understandings of the relations between habit and the will. In disconnecting...

...Beginning Chapter 1 discusses the central theoretical frame of ingenious citizenship. It reconceives liberal citizenship as a cultural script, a standardizing and domineering way of life that governs how human subjects ought to live and participate as “proper” citizens, in different realms...

... Chapter 1 discusses the central theoretical frame of ingenious citizenship. It reconceives liberal citizenship as a cultural script, a standardizing and domineering way of life that governs how human subjects ought to live and participate as “proper” citizens, in different realms...

... value of a trustworthy guide as a commodity. Instead of seeing guides as victims, the chapter explores how the guide’s performative construction of subjectivity challenges the conventional notion of worker’s “freedom” in liberal economy, which assumes the existence of the autonomous and authentic self...

... This chapter discusses the later life trajectories of the tour guides up until 2013 and their ongoing struggles with work, freedom, and subjectivity as they continue or end their work translating nature for Japanese tourists. The guides maintain an ambivalent relationship with these ideas...

... thinking today that uses the emergence of queer cultures as a metric to assess the extent to which non-Western cultures have evolved into liberal states under globalization. Chinese queer theory critiques such developmentalist theory and proposes instead that queer subjects are produced and reproduced...

... Education is an apparatus of the state to colonize and mold useful, docile subjects and citizens, but education can also enable resistance to oppression and liberate. It was thus a battleground for the culture or canon wars of the 1980s and 1990s sparked in part by the Third World Liberation...

... England. As the subject writes his life, and comes to possess the meaning of slavery as his own past, the autobiography as a liberal genre does the work of subjugating the history of the collective enslaved within a temporality in which it is legible as the origin out of which the free modern subject...

... The subjects of Third World studies, the oppressed masses, are the peoples of the Third World: Africa, Asia (and Oceania), and Latin America (and the Caribbean). That spatial designation is not a national but a regional demarcation and is the area of the world colonized by Europe for some four...