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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 79–105.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... What does Taiwanese multiculturalism look like? How does the uncertain status of Taiwanese sovereignty shape local identity politics? And what are the effects of these policies on indigenous groups? To answer these questions, this essay combines a historical and ethnographic analysis of Taiwanese...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 121–151.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Rob Wilson Duke University Press 2001 From the Sublime to the Devious: Writing the Experimental/Local Pacific Rob Wilson 1. ‘‘Two Postmodernisms’’ At times in the Pacific, it seemed...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 243–265.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Maeve Connolly Duke University Press 2004 Sighting an Irish Avant-Garde in the Intersection of Local and International Film Cultures Maeve Connolly Introduction Vivienne Dick is an Irish filmmaker who...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (3): 75–100.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Juliana Spahr Duke University Press 2004 Connected Disconnection and Localized Globalism in Pacific Multilingual Literature Juliana Spahr 1 Five years ago, I moved to the island of Oahu to take a job at the Uni...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 47–63.
Published: 01 August 2019
... education and of the humanities, as well as of social and of poetic practices, locally and internationally, is traced as suggested by and beyond Miyoshi’s writings. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 humanities global local higher education Masao Miyoshi References Ali...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 111–141.
Published: 01 May 2012
... a formidable and awry range of local devotional traditions and deities, entailed a form of modernist transcoding that was tendentially monotheistic. It would seem that a singular Hindu national imagination could be secured only when such myriad energies–differing vastly in terms of caste, class, region, local...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 231–262.
Published: 01 February 2022
... media piracy. I show how the state's history of contravening international copyright provided justification for piracy and how cultural producers and consumers worked to reconcile revolutionary aspirations for socialist art with the influx of global entertainment and the rise of new forms of local...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 135–152.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., a paradoxical antielitist sort of authoritarianism. All in all, while the most spectacular manifestation of this phenomenon is no doubt in Hungary after 2010, the essay argues that it should not be considered a local anomaly but rather a more general and, to a large extent, systemic problem of the postcommunist...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 55–67.
Published: 01 February 2012
... already taken to the streets after a poor street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on December 17 in reaction to humiliation he suffered at the hands of the local authorities for simply trying to earn a living for his family. People in Kasserine were enraged by the news of the Sidi Bouzid...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 195–209.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to address the issue of papal privilege created the space for conflict, in this instance between a bishop seeking to expand his powers and Mendicants seeking to limit his authority. How such conflicts were resolved depended on local circumstances as well as the individuals and groups involved. In this case...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 113–127.
Published: 01 August 2015
...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...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 73–97.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Christian Thorne Eighteenth-century English poetry, epic in technique and idiom even when not epic in scale, has some unusual ways of telling stories on a multicontinental scale—stories, that is, that are not confined to localities nor even to nations. This is a feat that novels struggle...
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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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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 61–78.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of sovereignty and hegemony, has recently extended to efforts to dismantle democracy and to undermine shared consciousness, local wisdom, and political life. This nationwide project for a democratic reevaluation is therefore about a new mode of social protest. The Sunflower Movement has revealed...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 173–199.
Published: 01 February 2020
... ethnohistorical novel series, Li locates what he calls the “historical real” in the intertwining of political upheavals and the “stirrings in people’s lives and feelings” of a particular place, where local characters become makers and riders of historical “great waves” through processes of socialization within...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Bécquer Seguín This introduction briefly provides the context of the Great Recession in Spain, which spurred one of the largest protests movements in the country's history. Known locally as the 15M and internationally as the indignados movement, the occupation of plazas in the spring and summer...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 105–125.
Published: 01 February 2009
.... The article discusses two theaters: one in Honduras (Teatro Basura) and one in Vermont (Bread and Puppet Theater), both of which were greatly influenced by Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed , which stressed recycling, making do with what is at hand, and underlined the importance of local and native...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 187–198.
Published: 01 May 2010
... an ordering of the globe along racial lines. Though these flashes contain hope for a world-to-come, the essay calls for a corresponding cosmopolitan vision that is not blinded by this global promise, but is willing to see through it to confront the fractured local ground of the postcolonial present...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 47–73.
Published: 01 August 2012
..., transnationalization challenges the local responsibilities of universities as institutions of learning intimately connected with practices of citizenship. The curricular preference of foreign students for marketable subjects also intensifies pressures to reorient university education more closely to transnational...
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boundary 2 (2025) 52 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 February 2025
... pages of history. By doing so, women are not only putting the record straight but also helping other women (locally, regionally, and globally) to advance in their just fight against patriarchy, injustice, and inequality. [email protected] Copyright ©2018 Anissa Daoudi 2025 Algeria...