... authors will have reason to be pleased and to be even more grateful to the editorial col- lective of boundary 2, who encouraged the undertaking and supported its completion. June 2017 global economic crisis Celtic Tiger decade...

... a political leadership role in the world? The effort of the United States under President Obama to do so must contend with the Bush legacy, consisting of two unwinnable wars, a deep economic crisis that began as a financial crisis, and a politically and culturally divided nation. Haug's essay does not pretend...

...Ruth Y.Y. Hung More than ten years on from the 2008 financial crisis, two trends of global statism remain dominant: Beijing-led “exceptional neoliberalism” and the emerging “illiberal democracy” topped by Trumponomics, with racist populism looming at the back of both. Even though these persistent...

...- tics of decolonization struggles in the developing countries in the twenti- eth century. Their nature is social unrest incurred by the developing coun- 188”boundary 2 / Spring 2012 tries shouldering excessive costs of the global economic crisis due to their single- product economy...

... its borders and in reaction to the global economic crisis. Willa Murphy is lecturer in Irish literature at the School of English and History, Ulster University. She was the American Society for Eighteenth-­Century Studies Fellow at Notre Dame in 2011 and has recently published articles...

... and a new consumer market. While the nation-­state is still one of the players, state funding for film and other arts has been consistently dwindling in the region, especially in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis. The moral obligation to sustain national cinemas still lingers...

... and silk; they also reproduce a culture of rituals and possess a value system that is incom- patible with market forces. Mao Dun’s story gives a glimpse of the vast depletion of the country- side during the global economic crisis of the 1930s. The decline of the rural economy in China led...

... necessary to locate these nested crises in the longer history of capitalist economic crises. The current crisis of global neoliberalism has its antecedents in the stagflationary crisis of the 1970s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Long Depression at the end of the nineteenth century...

...Tom Looser For some time now, Japan has been teetering on the point of fundamental, historical transformation. Neoliberalist contractions, natural catastrophes, and the nuclear disaster have contributed to an era of crisis that is local to Japan, while they are also an ongoing bellwether of global...

... yun- dong, hereafter NRRM). This major intervention by intellectuals and rural activists, who argue that this rural crisis cannot be understood simply as a problem of rural economics and agricultural production but as a social crisis that calls for the reconstruction of rural...

... clashes. Gabriel Byrne resigned from his role as cultural ambassador in 2011 and accused the Irish government of paying mere lip 144 boundary 2 / February 2018 In the throes of the crisis, successive governments hosted the Global Irish Economic Forum. Designed to meet biennially...

... on the problem of sover- eignty in the global arena but on the historical-analytical problem of social formation, which included uneven economic structures and internal power relations, and the everyday cultural conditions produced in the micro- and macro-interactions of capitalism with received cultures...

... to encompass the global financial crisis of 2008 as well as its austerity- and unemployment-ridden aftermath in Spain (Labrador Méndez 2012 ; Korcheck 2015 ). By the time of the economic collapse, developers in Spain were building nearly a million houses a year (Martínez Guirao 2016 : 139). Spain had become...

... Journal of the American Asiatic Association 10, no. 3 (October 1903): 257. Eperjesi / The American Asiatic Association 209 signifiers of economic crisis were the series of depressions between 1893 and 1897, and the labor uprisings in Homestead, Pennsylvania, in 1892...

... / Summer 2010 of individuals as the prevailing value of the developed capitalist nations in the West. By the end of the twentieth century, with its global reach in mili- tary and economic power, the United States had endeavored to make lib- eral individualism “universal.” It has...

..., Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech (Berkeley: Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California Press, 2009), 109. In Global American Studies / Pease / Crisis of Critique 181 lology at the outset of the European Enlightenment contributed...

.... US edu- cational institutions are not merely beneficiaries of US power; they are also widely perceived to hold the secret of the economic and political power of the nation, not to speak of successful careers in the global economy. They are sites as well as vehicles and agents of globalization...

...Leah Feldman Abstract This essay addresses how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the conditions of social, political, and economic precarity that followed gave rise to intertwining strands of global New Right thought. Taking up the Russian Right's revanchist-revolutionary vision of neo...

..., but they also differ from the homogeneous empty time at work in globalized brands or media tropes that circulate the world in the same consumable forms. In interrogating the reality, and political potential, of the everyday in crisis, it is important to observe the temporal regimes by which people...

..., neither following chronological time nor developing sequentially in the novel, TransAtlantic enacts precisely the sort of timeless time that characterizes the condition of contemporary risk society. McCann’s text directly addresses the Irish economic crisis that began in 2007–8, bookending...