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Cuba: The Changing Scenarios of Governability
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (3): 55–75.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Haroldo Dilla Alfonso Duke University Press 2002 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 59 of 265
Cuba: The Changing Scenarios of Governability
Haroldo Dilla Alfonso...
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Somapolitics: A Biohermeneutic Paradigm in the Era of Empire
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 127–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Baidik Bhattacharya This essay identifies and explores a new paradigm of imperial crime management (and eventually of colonial governance more broadly) in the second half of the nineteenth century that emerged at the cusp of criminal anthropology, imperial culture, and fiction. I call this new...
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Disrupting Hegemonic Liberalism in East Asia
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 199–216.
Published: 01 May 2010
... war. Under cold war conditions, as long as the countries were anticommunist, authoritarian excesses of the governments of the new nations were condoned. This provided opportunities for political and economic developments in East Asia that were alternatives to the historically determined liberal...
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Epistolary Propaganda: Forgery and Revolution in the Atlantic World
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2011
... around the state and the corporate interests that it supports, this late eighteenth-century forgery opens a window onto a moment when propaganda appears less villainous, less the tool of public relations practiced by governments and corporations spreading misinformation or outright lies, and more a set...
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The Grammars of the Tunisian Revolution
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 17–42.
Published: 01 February 2012
... at the rules that will govern the completion of their objectives. This overall universal rule can be called “revolutionary grammars.” Yet there are aspects of the Tunisian Revolution that are not subject to any singular specific grammar, which prompts noting that this revolution, with all its contingent...
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Kasserine and January
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 55–67.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Mustafa Aloui The city of Kasserine, in the central-west region of Tunisia, which has long been the epicenter of protest against the policies of Ben Ali’s government, erupted into full-scale insurrection the first week of January 2011. Not far from Kasserine lies Sidi Bouzid, where protestors had...
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A Revolution of Dignity and Poetry
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 February 2012
... national anthem and have been sung by some of the most influential Arab stars, written on protest banners, and shouted by students in the face of French and English occupiers and their own governments. The couplet even entered the folklore of global protest music and poetry, and was adopted...
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Disinformation: The Limits of Capitalism’s Imagination and the End of Ideology
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 55–91.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., historical process of the erasure of history itself, culminating in a disruption or blockage of critical thinking, in which particular fictions (the “war on terror,” for example), through repeated and widespread use in our major institutions (schools, media, government, and political parties), substitute...
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Apocalyptic Memories and Subjective Movements: Differentiation by Political Power in Postwar Japan
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 55–61.
Published: 01 August 2015
... government readily ignores any demonstrations by ordinary people against its policies. At the same time, Japanese corporations are largely immune to any efforts by laborers and consumers to resist their activities. The consequences for civil society are stark. Given the absence of a vital organized labor...
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Irish Politics Since the Crash, 2008–2016
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 31–57.
Published: 01 February 2018
... the state’s image as the poster child for Euro-austerity. Meanwhile, the postwar settlement in Northern Ireland faces its most severe challenge yet, as drastic cuts in public spending imposed by Britain’s Conservative government put the local power-sharing administration under intense strain. This essay...
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Fighting for the Middle: Medieval Studies Programs and Degrees within Higher Education
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 123–144.
Published: 01 August 2023
... the established governing body of the degree program, the fiercest defenders of a conventional, Eurocentric conception of medieval studies were those newest to the discipline—the graduate students. [email protected] Copyright ©2023 by Duke University Press 2023 medieval disciplinarity...
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A Limited Constitution: Publius, the State of Emergency, and “One Supreme Tribunal”
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 215–238.
Published: 01 February 2010
... Vermeule's Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts argues that far from it being the case that judicial oversight of government-imposed security measures should be heightened in states of emergency, on the contrary, it is precisely at such times that they should be given the broadest...
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The Hegemony of the Local: Taiwanese Multiculturalism and Indigenous Identity Politics
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 79–105.
Published: 01 August 2018
...P. Kerim Friedman For most of its postwar history, Taiwan’s government promoted a perception of the nation as a bastion of authentic Chinese culture. This changed in the 1990s, when Taiwan began to embrace its multicultural heritage, including the languages and cultures of the indigenous population...
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Comparative Taiwan Literature, Within and Without
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 173–196.
Published: 01 August 2018
... challenged. Taiwan literature, and how its critics and writers are redefining its relationship to its complicated linguistic past and contemporary allies, marks one such important regional interface where this particular process of literary governance is unfolding. This essay places Taiwan in the regional...
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Dialectics of Sovereignty, Compromise, and Equality in the Discourse on the “Tibetan Question”
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 153–179.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Since 1950, the Chinese government has determined the status and position of Tibetans, but it has not won the battle for Tibetans’ hearts and minds. Ongoing Tibetan resistance under Chinese rule points to serious fissures in the Chinese state’s ideological and cultural project...
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Ayn Rand’s Vibrator: Masochism as Conservative Style
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 1–29.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of consent force on individuals. Rand’s penchant for imagining a literally libidinal economy hardly defines the tastes of conservatism tout court . Nevertheless, the masochistic erotic formations in her novels constitute a defining feature of an ideology that views government as a pain. boundary 2 46:4 (2019...
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Philology from the Point of View of Its Victims
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 177–206.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., colonialism, and nationalism, including Nazism, Nichanian sketches a genealogy of the figure of the native. The latter emerges as the eighteenth-century British jurist and linguist William Jones compiles and translates legalistic texts from India to be able to govern the “natives” by their own laws and in so...
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The Experience of Peril in Secular Criticism
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 153–191.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., in Western traditions, is presupposed through a binary schema of power whereby potency is exhausted in actuality. This binary of power corresponds historically to the Christian Trinitarian oikonomia that predates the transcendental foundationalism of sovereign power/law and secular government. Hence, the age...
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New Media, Neo-Media: The Brief Life of Socialist Television in Ghana
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 195–230.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Jennifer Blaylock Television in Ghana was born at a radical time when Africans across the continent were boldly inventing systems of governance resistant to imperialism and racial inequality. Alongside the formation of the new state, the new medium was designed to help realize visions of Pan...
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1960s East and West: The Nature of the Shestidesiatniki and the New Left
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 95–104.
Published: 01 February 2009
... of the two movements is ascribed to certain key differences in their demographics and strategies. While the New Left took shape as a youth movement, the shestidesiatniki represented a generation that had been through World War II and identified with the reforms undertaken from within the Soviet government...
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