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... of the voice as a plastic, technologically malleable site of expressive play and as the foundation of Indigenous identity and political agency. Drawing on fieldwork with Aboriginal radio producers-in-training, the chapter asks how the technical malleability of radio sound and its exploitation by Indigenous...

... theories of cultural difference. It argues that postgenomic uncertainty over whether race is a fixed or malleable property of human populations makes race newly important in assessing the equally uncertain futures that neoliberal capitalism promises for working populations, especially those from elsewhere...

... Hitchcock) are as important as the teleplays. Here the host’s malleable identity was played around with in addition to the weekly feud with the sponsor’s intrusive commercials—Bristol-Myers owned the show for the initial seasons and was in turned represented by Young & Rubicam. Hitchcock’s televisual...

... The epilogue reprises the major themes of the book, namely, how South Asian migrant domestic workers’ everyday conversions in Kuwait mark the confluence of affective labor, Islamic ethical practice, and discourses of South Asian women’s malleability—all of which reshape their subjectivities...

...” and to the “making of” of the idol. Through them, the specter becomes material, malleable, and dead. As such, her work invites us to think of the future as an unshaped potentiality, and to activate a collective agency that only exists in the hands of the present and that is grounded in an uncomfortable, unfamiliar...

... up not of a fictively fixed and finite set of features but of an essentialized, malleable, and substitutable range. Racial formations combine elements of fixity and fluidity in ways that make them both resilient and impervious to empirical, experiential counterclaims Racial epistemologies...

... This chapter focuses on a gendered discourse of South Asian women’s malleability or being naram , understood as the intrinsic capacity and also learned capability of South Asian women to accommodate themselves to different sociocultural circumstances. By virtue of being naram, many domestic...

... failed to account for the generative nature of religious networks and the centrality of collective mosque building projects for Muslim communities. Enterprising leaders and everyday experts in these migrant groups creatively exploited the malleability of property regulations and erected durable mosques...

..., as a complex mobilization platform built from the feeling of fear of a malleable enemy. gender ideology binary gender feminism right-wing politics LGBTQIA+ ...

... of mobility across political borders as central to the creation of lived geographies that result in the configuration of a regional space that is malleable, amorphously demarcated, and transimperial. In order to explain the innovation behind the study of this approach to regional configurations...

... the alternative geography I call the transimperial Greater Caribbean, the subjects of this book envisioned plausible futures developed within this malleable, amorphously demarcated, transimperial geographic space. methodological nationalism plausible future Atlantic history lived geography geographic...

... building projects for Muslim communities. Enterprising leaders and everyday experts in these migrant groups creatively exploited the malleability of property regulations and erected durable mosques that enunciated their ties to their adopted city and invigorated their historic connections to Sufi...

... assumptions about what colonialism and racism once looked like make little room for the mobile essentialisms that produce racism’s protean qualities. Racial essences are made up not of a fictively fixed and finite set of features but of an essentialized, malleable, and substitutable range. Racial formations...

... hierarchies through folk theories of cultural difference. It argues that postgenomic uncertainty over whether race is a fixed or malleable property of human populations makes race newly important in assessing the equally uncertain futures that neoliberal capitalism promises for working populations...

..., genderphobic binarism has the characteristics of a counteroffensive, or backlash, to the expansion of minority rights, then it appears, on the other hand, as a complex mobilization platform built from the feeling of fear of a malleable enemy. gender ideology binary gender feminism right-wing politics...