... Chapter 3 leaves the solar system and considers the work of scientists, primarily at MIT, who are looking for exoplanets. Because these planets are, essentially, invisible, pioneers of this emerging field experiment with ways to portray not only the existence of a planet but also what it might...

... the conventional heterosexual motif, homoeroticism takes center stage, taking readers on a rollercoaster ride through the two young men’s adolescence. In Cui’s writing, queer sexuality is portrayed as part of the mundane way of life, of the everyday human experience. Chinese fiction queer erotica...

... colonial mansions and working-class residences portrayed by police and gentrification authorities as the center of the city’s prostitution and drug trades. In late 1997 a nascent social movement called S.O.S. Children of the Historical Center, made up almost entirely of Pentecostal Protestant former...

... the Trial Chamber. The chapter also discusses the civil parties, including S-21 survivors and painters Vann Nath and Bou Meng, along with mechanic Chhum Mey. Along the way, the chapter suggests that the prosecution sought to portray Duch as a “man,” while the defense homed in on the argument that he...

... culture that was published separately as Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals . The chapter seeks to portray the whole picture of the media theory Azuma envisioned at that moment, and at the same time explain why it had to be abandoned. Azuma Hiroki cyberspace postmodernism otaku culture animal...

...)produced in current environmental agendas and municipal plans. This chapter argues that the West Oakland Specific Plan portrays an eco-friendly city while erasing the Black population from the historically African American district of West Oakland as it rebrands the municipality as a white and green city...

... of Mapfumo’s songs, they begin to censor them, and eventually detain the artist. Mapfumo is released, but on condition that he perform at a rally for Bishop Abel Muzorewa. Muzorewa is portrayed here as a once-credible nationalist who has, at this point, entered into an accord with the white regime. The so...

... irreconcilable. It portrays Mandela as a politician who made the profession seem noble, but who knew when and how to compromise. To many observers, he was premodern in that he was very much a product of the tribal tradition of a chief accountable to his people, making them all feel important and representing...

..., keyboards, or horns—essentially as an mbira band with bass and drums. The tour showcases Mapfumo’s versatility and capacity to adapt, but it is again fraught with financial mismanagement. The chapter portrays Mapfumo at a moment of relative isolation and vulnerability, having lost many peers. The death...

... heteronormativity and the middle-class homonormativity that quickly emerged in postsocialist China. Instead of portraying Chinese gay men and lesbians as victims of an unaccepting society, Cui’s stories center others’ relationships to homoerotic desire and nonnormative gender presentation. These stories compose...

... U.S. media outlets created a supportive domestic context of reception for surveillance technologies adopted in the post-9/11 era by portraying the United States’ enemies in the war on terror as the “opaque” bodies of reference from which “transparent” passenger-suspects are encouraged...

... and the need to protect vulnerable children, popular representations of Ostrava’s woes portray a struggle between citizens who are suffering and a state not living up to its obligations. Evoking social contract ideals, such calls upon the state engage in a politics of last resort, translating personal...

... Chapter 6 builds on speculative themes, weaving together socialist astrofuturism portrayed in Romanian and Moldovan film, art, and speculative fiction with ethnographic observations of capitalist ruination. It begins with a close reading of the film Gagarin’s Tree by Mona V?t?manu and Florin...

... and to portray ethnography and historical sociology as “unscientific” since they do not strive for generality. Comparison is not in the first place a question of the right research design, the correct choice of cases to be compared (the “what” and “how” to compare) but of an awareness of the conceptual...

... sentence: “Defeat.” These stoic final notes, which follow, portray Che’s clarity and composure in the midst of growing adversity. He was seized on 8 October and executed the next day, though his example would inspire a new wave of armed struggle in the Southern Cone. With his personal sacrifice, Che became...

... and a scapegoat, since, they said, he had not been a top leader. One of his lawyers, François Roux, also argued that the prosecution had missed an opportunity with history by seeking to portray Duch as a monster even though he sought to claim his humanity and hoped for dialogue and forgiveness, a claim many...

... historical figures of the black Atlantic are symbolic body armor, and are portrayed as such; their corporeal entities are created to serve as visual protection to black masses—a visual absorption. For Tubman, this is done through rhetoric and rifle, as literary and visual images reinforce a hyper-masculine...

... portrayed in devastating terms the prerevolutionary ruling economic clique, the old rosca that “felt it owned a country it simultaneously despised.” It criticized the reversal of the national revolution, which unfolded as the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) capitulated point by point...