...Collective Stances ...

... This chapter examines the Panthers’ evolving gun politics. It contextualizes the BPP’s stance on armed self-defense as part of a nationwide conversation by black nationalists and elements of the New Left and traces the roots of the Panthers’ engagement with armed self-defense to the political...

... this affective stance by bringing people into an intimate, visceral engagement with newly created chemicals. What is it about such an affective stance that allows people to live with apparent contradictions, reassuring them that they can poison the world without limit even as they recognize that a limit must...

... chemistry embedded in current modes of production and consumption. In this chapter a series of ethnographic “stopgaps” set in Chicago, New Delhi, and Venice examines the part that one key technology, the automobile, has played in cultivating this affective stance by bringing people into an intimate...

... The concluding coda takes a stance against population as a useful concept. Climate change has recharged the concept of population within policy and politics. In contrast, the coda argues that population, as a concept for governing human fertility, is infused with racisms and dangerous...

... of multiculturalism in Norway, and the other accounted for an honor killing in a migrant family from Kurdistan. In such cases of polarized moral passions, the efforts to render the complexity of the situation and maintain a critical stance are met with suspicious or even hostile reactions from all sides...

... an effective ethical and political stance based on a logic of documentation that involves an act of witnessing one’s past failure “to see on time.” If the “crisis of witnessing” addressed in chapter 5 has do with the demand imposed on Palestinians to serve as witnesses of their own suffering, “the crisis...

... by non-Indigenous bureaucrats, provide a narrative means to make plain the ways that Indigenous cultural practices can require a reflexive, even defensive stance vis-à-vis outside eyes. The conclusion suggests that these activities provide a fundamental rubric for understanding the radical mediatization...

... the author’s research in Dutch New Guinea with Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg’s groundbreaking Righteous Dopefiend. The chapter finds ingredients of a more affirmative stance toward anthropology than usually associated with Writing Culture, one based on what Michel-Rolph Trouillot calls “an epistemology...

... to China’s 1910s New Culture and May Fourth movements and took inspiration from Nationalist Party leader Sun Yat-sen’s affirmation that Confucianism and industrial modernity could be fully compatible. Sun amplified this stance in United Front Canton. In the wake of Sun’s 1925 death, his most militantly anti...

..., moʻopuna); as a way of approaching the world; as a way of approaching study of our indigenous past; and as a stance that supports the whole project of (re)establishing Hawaiian political and intellectual history. In “Moolelo Hawaii Kahiko,” Poepoe thus simultaneously examines works of moʻokūʻauhau...

... Chodorow). Adding to this catalog of the mechanisms and motives for forgetting women activists, Snitow identifies another layer of difficulty: Women of the third wave had a principled stance against being remembered or lionized as individuals. Their values stipulated that no one woman should stand out...

... The introduction sets forth the relationship between language and historical imagination in the making of the Philippine nation-state and the U.S. Empire from the perspective of translation. Conceived as a practical act that entails an ethical stance, translation is as much about speech...

... what he perceives as a world music mafia also alienates potential allies. Amid this rough and tumble, Mapfumo records the song “Marima Nzara (You Have Harvested Hunger),” a harsh critique of ZANU’s violent seizure of white farms. Mapfumo’s stance, and this song in particular, creates a powerful new...

.... Fernández countered by adopting a glamorous diva stance. Yet there is no doubt it was her voice’s powerful effect that made her into a pop music star internationally, and also the ideal symbol for the Popular Democratic Party in the 1950s and 1960s. This culminated in a career as politician, when she...

... lesson of the trial of Duch is a recognition of the dangers of the sort of narrow articulations and effacing conviction that Duch and S-21 evinced and a recognition of the benefits of the alternative stance of “afacement,” or an openness and recognition of the other that seeks out complexity instead...

... to generate an effective ethical and political stance based on a logic of documentation that involves an act of witnessing one’s past failure “to see on time.” If the “crisis of witnessing” addressed in chapter 5 has do with the demand imposed on Palestinians to serve as witnesses of their own suffering...

... ( apdh ) and one of the most compelling voices in favor of democracy. His humanity, lucidity, and ethical public stance made him a beloved figure. In 1977, responding to U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s new human-rights policy, Banzer called for elections, but there remained major restrictions...