Search Results for refashioning

... The chapter reports on wave science in the Southern Hemisphere, drawing not only from the first conference on the topic in Australia, but also on Zoom fieldwork with scientists on the Bay of Bengal, in Bangladesh, where legacies of colonialism mix with future-facing projects to refashion land...

... profiling and surveillance. These contemporary racial relations between Chinese and Black southern Africans refashion white racial paternalism toward Black South Africans. The chapter also attends to the transnational aspects of racial formation by tracing how language, stereotypes, and imaginaries—Black...

... that is charged with enabling that which exists to be refashioned. With the process of dematerialization underway, the triumph of the image and the emergence of a nanoworld carried by all kinds of instrumented practices are hardly enough to erase matter. On the contrary, these processes have only highlighted its...

... argues that men and women living in the settlements refashioned the political economy of work—despite challenges of distance, racism, and the law—placing greatest significance on family unity and intimacy. If pass laws, many argued, effectively denied the right to love, illegal migrants resolved to put...

... “Settlements of Memory: Forgeries of Life in Common, 1900–1930s” turns to spatial histories of dispossession and settlement in Durban's interstices and peripheries, through which Indian peasant-workers collectively refashioned selves and landscapes to root themselves in an interstitial geography...

... in Arrested Development’s southern rap video “Tennessee” to implementing the free jazz of Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism within his art allow the artist to refashion meditations on the African resonances found, revised, and reproduced from Atlanta, Georgia, to Djenné, Mali, and even to Jupiter...

... the normative “color line,” as Saidiya Hartman terms it, of computational experience. This chapter asks: what would it take to artfully prize open AI’s racist aesthetics and allow other colors to shade computational experience? Stephanie Dinkins’s art offers a differently colored AI. She refashions AI...

... and children, and the pursuit of livelihoods beyond the plantations. Freedpeople’s growing mobility and refashioned work routines prompted planters and lawmakers to respond with severe legal and customary strategies of containment, including the 1834 Contract Act, which tied employment to estate residence...

... been the expectation that they themselves would eventually come “home,” and that they would help to redefine their nation’s social worlds by connecting them to new technical networks. As they pondered how the artifacts of their work have been taken up by refashioned Gitxsan bureaucracies, however, some...

... subjectivities travel and are ‘re-fashioned’. “refashioned.” Taking the films La noire de . . . (1966), by Ousmane Sembène, and Les saignantes (2006), by Jean-Pierre Bekolo, as its focus, this chapter suggests that material traffic between costume and cinema is a generative rubric through which to examine...

... and legitimates racial profiling and surveillance. These contemporary racial relations between Chinese and Black southern Africans refashion white racial paternalism toward Black South Africans. The chapter also attends to the transnational aspects of racial formation by tracing how language, stereotypes...

... referents to the people and cultures with whom they originated.” Cinema and dress are, in this sense, connected as situated, embodied practices through which African subjectivities travel and are ‘re-fashioned’. “refashioned.” Taking the films La noire de . . . (1966), by Ousmane Sembène, and Les...

... collectively refashioned selves and landscapes to root themselves in an interstitial geography that became the spatial basis for a tradition of Indian Progressivism that Indians can recall in variously mediated ways. In contrast, the search for Coloured pasts leads to a radically nomadic and impermanent sense...