... This chapter revisits W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk in the effort to draw out a relevant tension in the text. On the one hand, Du Bois seems to assimilate black strivings into a progressive, teleological narrative that finds its culmination in the civic nation and the ideals...

... In his inaugural address to the Duke community in 2004, President Brodhead characterizes Duke as a university that has always been rising and striving for greatness. He reflects on the relationship between theory and practice in academic research. He also notes the cost of higher education...

... The introduction sets up the history of anthropology’s comparative approach, initiated by Mauss and Weber. It argues against striving for unified theories, though, resisting the growing tendency to define science as a method of model making based on variables and quantitative samples...

... Fake experience is a constant in contemporary culture. We strive for authenticity. But authentic is easy to hide, easy to replicate. Tourist travel is full of fake experience and false emotions. People want to experience extreme yet controlled sensations—and companies and governments are ready...

... when attached to collective images of the nation, justify various forms of violence and erasure. On other hand, the postracial signifies the ways racial striving and loss are mediated and informed by other subject positions and identities, including gender, class, and citizenship. In this chapter, I...

... with. He notes the challenges posed by China's censorship system, and expresses gratitude for the extent to which Taiwan's publishing industry has provided an alternate venue for works that cannot be published in China. He concludes by reflecting on how he strives to engage in process of self-critique...

... soldiers’ insistence on universal and moral qualities and the possibility of being recognized and recognizing others as good men/humans. Insisting on these qualities, they also strive to preserve themselves in the tumultuous, fractured, and shifting reality of Yugoslavia’s aftermath. hesitation...

... by news versus entertainment programming that strive to appropriate interactivity to different ends. Finally, this book describes how the systems depicted herein exert control over spaces of audience interaction, and what happens when they relinquish some of that control. Publics are frequently devised...

... framework represented by the concept of ocean/culture is offered, which articulates how drone conservationists strive not for the merger of oceans and cultures but rather a differentiation of oceans from cultures. technicity elementality governmentality drone ocean ...

... movements. The first proposition is introduced to distinguish between avant-gardes that strive to transform the world (aesthetic avant-gardes) and those that offer new artistic representations (artistic avant-gardes). The second designates transformations that substantially affect and transform our ways...

... Blackness came into being with the figure of the Black slave, capitalism’s most visible symbol of the possibility of violence without limits and of vulnerability without a safety net. Without restitution, reparation, and a striving toward universal justice, the Becoming Black of the world...

... settlers on the urban periphery strive to become visible as lives at risk in order to be recognized as citizens with rights. To demonstrate how risk management impacts urban politics, this chapter highlights situations in which the entitlements of urban citizens are mediated by and predicated on the degree...

... in particular instances through situated and singular practices. This book engages Guatemalans’ experiences via number but also strives to unsettle readers’ relations to counting, especially the idea that mathematics is the only true universal language. ...

... While they strive for independence from dominant systems, indie pornographies are in fact deeply relational. They are imbricated in networks of production and distribution, they dialogue with media and culture, and they are rooted in interpersonal relationships. A political agenda for indie porn...

... to the “radical hope” that animates struggles in which rural populations have sought to reclaim land and build alternative ways to sustain and reproduce life. The life toward which these struggles strive is an indistinct, perhaps ever receding, horizon embodied in an ethical and spiritual disposition that implies...

... art and the real world. As such, it is broadening and expanding the territory of art, striving in its own unique way—in this, it paradoxically resembles the dream of many early avant-gardes—to interpolate the sensible between art and life. Neue Slowenische Kunst retro-avant-garde Slovenia...

... has engaged in processes of self-censorship in a (frequently unsuccessful) attempt to ensure that his works will be publishable in China. He concludes that one shouldn't focus on whether specific books have been banned or not, but rather on whether an author strives to write “with some basic rectitude...

... link to Yugoslav citizenship and the ideology of brotherhood and unity, and a combination of the sameness and equality of men and their radical diversity that marked this experience. Striving to make it possible for young Yugoslav men to experience Yugoslav values and ideals by bringing them together...

... to Black women who sacrifice themselves through their person, bodies, and lives to position themselves at the center of white supremacist political institutions. The chapter argues that Franco represents and embodies alternative visions and projects that strive for social justice, equality, and collective...