... A short collection of notes from Rosemarie’s time in India: partly quotations from the lamas’ speeches/lectures, and partly memories of her mother that surfaced while she was attending these talks. meditation Ella Lee Harris Freeney (Mama Freeney) dharma Buddha mind His Holiness...

... In this chapter, the author writes of the several research trips undertaken to India. This essay is partly a report on fieldwork, and partly a travel guide. The places mentioned include Delhi and its travel attractions, and then the less likely destinations, stone quarries in Punjab, a small...

... An experiment in “self-historicizing,” this partly autobiographical chapter looks back on Writing Culture more than a quarter century later. It asks how these years can be narrated historically. It locates the book with reference to postwar experiences of decolonization and globalization...

... This chapter discusses the death of the author’s mother. The essay is devoted partly to a description of the rituals of death—Hindu funerals—but the author is also detailing a writer’s response to grief and mourning. Writers might anticipate in what they write the suffering that death will bring...

... Chiu-Nan Lai Thupten Kunsang A short collection of notes from Rosemarie’s time in India: partly quotations from the lamas’ speeches/lectures, and partly memories of her mother that surfaced while she was attending these talks. meditation Ella Lee Harris Freeney (Mama Freeney) dharma...

... Ambiguity refers to the instability or multiplicity of meaning and is therefore something of a fact of life, whereas affect is not an issue of meaning as such. The turn to affect in cultural inquiry from the 1990s has partly been a reaction to the perceived dominance of questions connected...

... to color film. In 2018, a small branch of this famed company—the Technicolor Experience Center (TEC)—was trying to lead a transition in the entertainment and special effects industry to VR. Numerous frictions were brought to the surface in attempting this transition, which can be partly attributed to VR...

... of binary explanations of power and resistance. It finds that the outcomes of black organizing are contradictory and contingent on different factors. Afro-Colombians have gained remarkable national and global visibility partly because of Colombia’s official multiculturalism, and of Law 70 of 1993, which...

... This chapter focuses on the institutionalization of a “native” tradition of social science inquiry across the English-speaking Caribbean in the mid-twentieth century. This impulse took shape partly in response to colonial epistemologies that pathologized working-class Afro-Caribbean kinship...

.... This is partly due to the liberal fantasies of Western intimacy that IKEA affords despite the company’s fascist origins and dispossessory present. liberalism fascism protest capitalism Eastern Europe ...

... Chapter 2 captures the intellectual history of twentieth-century Latin America by focusing on two important adjacent movements. Despite their partly shared root and trajectory, these movements occupy contrasting positions in contemporary decolonial scholarship. While acknowledging the historical...

... undeveloped. Jadugoda uranium poisoning radioactivity activism In this chapter, the author writes of the several research trips undertaken to India. This essay is partly a report on fieldwork, and partly a travel guide. The places mentioned include Delhi and its travel attractions...

... sexuality’s constitutive effects on the state, contributing to its illusions—as monolithic, rational, enduring, “there.” Advancing the conceptual framework of the sexual state, the introduction argues that states are partly constituted by the mandate to contain sexuality’s putative threats to the social order...

.../coloniality/secularity. coloniality of gender Indigenous thought Black studies Chapter 2 captures the intellectual history of twentieth-century Latin America by focusing on two important adjacent movements. Despite their partly shared root and trajectory, these movements occupy contrasting...

...Archival Continuities This chapter focuses on the institutionalization of a “native” tradition of social science inquiry across the English-speaking Caribbean in the mid-twentieth century. This impulse took shape partly in response to colonial epistemologies that pathologized working-class...

... Zone Act). Boston Marathon bombings “brown-skinned male ” racial prejudice 1917 Immigration Act This chapter discusses the death of the author’s mother. The essay is devoted partly to a description of the rituals of death—Hindu funerals—but the author is also detailing a writer’s...

... the groundwork for showing sexuality’s constitutive effects on the state, contributing to its illusions—as monolithic, rational, enduring, “there.” Advancing the conceptual framework of the sexual state, the introduction argues that states are partly constituted by the mandate to contain sexuality’s putative...

... in the entertainment and special effects industry to VR. Numerous frictions were brought to the surface in attempting this transition, which can be partly attributed to VR being simultaneously a cinematic technology and an emerging technology—a technology for storytelling as well as a technology about which stories...

.... Engaging in a counterfactual exercise, this chapter also describes a protest that never came to be. While Romanian protestors have mobilized against other forces of global capital, they have yet to effectively organize against the largest owner of Romanian forestlands. This is partly due to the liberal...

... partly because of Colombia’s official multiculturalism, and of Law 70 of 1993, which grants ethnic, territorial, and socioeconomic rights to black communities. But even as several tenets of Law 70 are implemented, black communities have been caught in the crossfire of the accelerated armed conflict...