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...<italic>Timeliness</italic><subtitle>Urgent Situations and Emergent Critiques</subtitle> ...

... The introduction situates critical ethnic studies as a collective attempt to build on the possibilities enlivened by the historical work of ethnic studies. The contributors suggest a notion of critical ethnic studies that is premised on a convivial sense of urgent participation, intellectual...

... knowledge and the skills to do the increasingly important work of migrant advocacy in this politically hostile context. Because of the immense emotional strain of student activism during this time period, community building was as important as, if not more important than, this urgent educational work...

..., accept forgetting. Nothing is more galvanizing than trying to learn from a next generation how they shape a life in politics now, and nothing more urgent than trying to join them as they struggle to Occupy our changing world. civil rights movement Occupy suffrage activists lost women founders...

... In a context of proliferation of actors demanding to make their truths known and respected, the question of decentralization of knowledge has become urgent. This chapter reviews what is meant by the processes of centering and centralizing and their opposites, decentering and decentralizing...

... This chapter introduces the theoretical background and empirical context of the study. It discusses the reasons why the topic of sexuality and disability is urgent and how past studies have examined it. Introducing the context of the study—Denmark and Sweden—the chapter explains how the two...

... somewhat technical. That technicality is itself an aesthetic category, which can mean evacuation has a kind of allure, and it might slip outside of the terrain of politics: it seems urgent, careful, necessary—and that makes it difficult to challenge, or to denaturalize who should and shouldn’t be part...

....” To suture takes on a pressured imperative as the United States confronts a dispiriting political rupture and a national pandemic. The current ethos of vengeance and the continued expansion of the prison-industrial complex raise ever more urgently the book's original question: How can healing take place...

... This chapter details the actions of Spanish administrators on the ground in Santo Domingo, as they struggled for a way to incorporate it with its plantation neighbors and, more urgently, make it profitable. Official disdain for subsistence agriculture—and the sum of Spanish efforts to craft...

... criminalization is furthering the spread of the virus. Reform is urgently needed to stem the tide of HIV transmission and improve public health. The Sero Project is a network of people with HIV and allies fighting for freedom from stigma and injustice. It has led an effort to raise awareness and mobilize...

... is compared to other writings on Haiti by James and contemporaries and is recognized as the protean centerpiece of the set of reflections on revolution, history, culture, personality, and the urgent need for sociopolitical change that characterizes James’s life. It is also a key part of a prolific body...

...—assumes the role of urgent, lifesaving, and authored infrastructure. Putting refugees' localized work into conversation with the global work of organizations through iconography, signature practices, and the objects' social lives raises questions about the commodification of aid and paradoxical...

... the making and unmaking of black/ened life within the death worlds of the sugarcane plantation and the coal mine, two geographical spaces indicative of slow death. The queer aesthetic of slow death brings time to a halt as an urgent call to deal with the colonial apartheid past and the ongoing violence...

... that prepares the audience by creating new embodiments; unfolding with urgent élan of histories almost entirely lost; a protective aniconism that refuses to unfold. When history cannot be unfolded, fabulation kicks in, and the fluent unfolding technique of the remix. The Last Angel of History detects clues...

... misunderstandings; distortions introduced by some kinds of outside “help”; false trails towards empowerment; cynical manipulations of new discourses towards neo-liberal ends. The goal was to put up warnings signs, not to discourage the urgent impetus to create structures in which international feminism can struggle...

... Creek manganese mine. The fight over the meaning and significance of the damaging of Two Women Sitting Down is used in two ways. On the one hand, it provides an excellent example of why a growing number of geologists and climate experts are urgently calling for new dialogue among natural sciences...

... With the excitement of innovations and new directions in African cinema also comes an increased awareness of the significance of its heritage. Reflection on the past lives of storyworlds and the responsibilities of archives is more and more urgent, as pioneers from the 1970s and 1980s pass...

...), but I also, finally, accept forgetting. Nothing is more galvanizing than trying to learn from a next generation how they shape a life in politics now, and nothing more urgent than trying to join them as they struggle to Occupy our changing world. civil rights movement Occupy suffrage activists...

... and inherent dangers to society. Contrary to the initial intent of these statutes, HIV criminalization is furthering the spread of the virus. Reform is urgently needed to stem the tide of HIV transmission and improve public health. The Sero Project is a network of people with HIV and allies fighting...

... With the excitement of innovations and new directions in African cinema also comes an increased awareness of the significance of its heritage. Reflection on the past lives of storyworlds and the responsibilities of archives is more and more urgent, as pioneers from the 1970s and 1980s pass on and their films...