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... Chapter 5 considers three problems that have arisen from efforts to interpret addiction as a form of akrasia and/or weakness of the will. The first problem is that this thesis too often posits the rational unity of healthy self-control. However, healthy people exhibit varying degrees of rational...

... racial landscape racial citizenship mestizaje critical geography Frontier Thesis transnational American studies heterotemporality settler colonialism ...

... This chapter begins with the discussion of a popular thesis that sexual repression resulted in impotence in the Maoist period. Leaving aside the relationship between impotence and sexual repression, this thesis leads to the discussion of whether and why sexual desire was repressed under...

... In a study that helped launch global debates around defunding/abolishing the police in 2020, this chapter, consisting of excerpts from an earlier master’s thesis, offers an analysis of the militarization and securitizing effect of the Police Pacification Units. Since its creation in 2008...

... sites and landmarks, Fredrick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis," Walter Prescott Webb's Great Plains, and Octavio Paz's theory of mestizo origins derived from Malinche/la chingada as a series techniques used to produce racial space: a racialized "way of seeing" national geographies and cultures...

... genealogy of the human is read alongside the author’s own thesis—which works through the geo-politics and coloniality of knowledge and being—in order to demonstrate her crucial contribution to decolonial thinking and the advancement of the decolonial option in epistemology, politics and ethics...

... the current literature on Duch answers this question, usually by emphasizing the “man” argument. The “ordinary men” thesis, however, is somewhat insipid, suggesting a sort of modal personality devoid of complexity. The epilogue considers a nuanced explanation through a discussion of the “effacing conviction...

... thesis in a contemporary political frame. The Black Jacobins Toussaint Louvertur e C. L. R. Jame s, Literatur e Translation ...

... Mineworkers ( fstmb ) was founded in 1944, and in November 1946, conscious of the workers’ pivotal role in national production, it issued the radical document that became known as the Thesis of Pulacayo, which was delivered at the site during the union’s First Special Congress. Its demands transcended...

... a theoretical physics through which we see how the Cartesian subject, in order to emerge as the subject of the enunciation, must be reduced to “a disposable piece of shit” in the form of the subject of the enunciated. The chapter’s thesis is that this split of the subject is also an intervention in the critique...

... deemed unnotable sonic features. While various notation systems have been put forward to supplement the traditional Western notation, the thesis here is that linguistic description is actually the most effective pedagogical approach when it comes to analyzing sounds in all their complexity...

... the dominant thesis leans heavily on a set of claims about human embodiment: that human bodies have shared motor schema, similar relations to objects, and shared phenomenological experiences of the world, all of which facilitate the automatic transfer of intersubjective information about what the other...

... the not-yet of threat present in the form of fear. The thesis can be summed up as: threat is the prospect of fear; fear is the project of threat. In other words, operating in an all-encompassing threat environment does not mean reducing insecurity. That is as impossible as filling the lack of information...

... account of the multiple modernities thesis in theories of globalization put forward in the sociology of culture. Rather than an additive or supplemental model, conjunctural analysis of cross-cultural dynamics in the colonial encounter, whether in Aboriginal Australia, preindependence India, or modern...

... interrogates the managerial logics pivotal in the milieu of contemporary gallery art, and demonstrates the absolute limits of tradition of colonial aesthetics. The chapter argues that the avant-garde thesis concerning the idea of the artwork and the separation between the idea and object (subjects) must...

... and Kant—a sublime situated along the vertical axis of transcendence—Žižek’s “ridiculous sublime” is situated along the horizontal axis of immanence. Born, on the one hand, of the gap in immanence inscribed in the Hegelian dialectic (a gap that keeps thesis and antithesis in perpetual relation...

... committees and analyzes the triangle of power that existed in Egypt at the time: the military, the Tahrir revolutionaries, and the popular committees. He briefly compares how this triangle of power differs from Leon Trotsky's famous thesis on dual power. Importantly, Said examines some of the efforts Tahrir...

... An overarching thesis of this chapter is that both in Mexico to a certain degree and in Nicaragua to a far more comprehensive extent beginning in the late 1970s and extending up to 1990, aesthetic avant-gardes were central to the revolutionary process. The chapter presents and discusses...

.... men’s medicine yijing (nocturnal emission) reproduction castration moral symptomatology This chapter begins with the discussion of a popular thesis that sexual repression resulted in impotence in the Maoist period. Leaving aside the relationship between impotence and sexual repression...