... of centenaries national recovery neoliberalism Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 ...

... to achieve sustained growth if the economy is to return to precrisis levels. One premise of the current optimism is that what we are witnessing is the recovery from an ordinary recession. This, however, seriously misunderstands the nature of the crisis. The dynamic development of global neoliberalism and its...

... to broaden the theoretical base of political inquiry by being as culturally inclusive as possible; it seeks to transcend national boundaries and build a body of theory that is somehow “global.” However, CPT must also be sensitive to the ways that “comparison” can function to separate (rather than include...

...Ping-hui Liao Since the 1949 great divide between the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan has been under pressure to seek recovery from or reunification with China. Now, with the rise of China as a global superpower and the redeployment of a trans-Pacific military, as well...

... began and identify some of the key factors that will determine the future of political struggle on the island. Measuring Recovery After years of punishing austerity, the Republic of Ireland is now said to be well on the road to recovery. Two International Monetary Fund (IMF...

... to make sense of the sacrifices that a nation demands of its subjects. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 violence sacrifice Japan memory representation Listening to the Bones: The Rhythms of Sacrifice in Contemporary Japan Christopher T...

... be repressed in order to be recalled as a disavowal. It seems here that Zionism believes that forcing the Palestinians to mourn the loss should have prevented their recuperation of national agency and their work for the recovery of Palestine, which their refusal to mourn, their melancho- lia, seems...

..., announces a long and complex African American poetic his- tory of recovery and innovation that, despite ‘‘invisibility to academic critics’’ (222), has long engaged Black poets and critics. Notice, too, that the canon in question is twentieth-century American poetry—not ‘‘Negro’’ or ‘‘Black’’ or ‘‘Afro...

... delivered at the “Humanism from Florence to Shanghai” conference, organized by David Der-wei Wang and me, on March 5–6, 2010, at Harvard University. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Intervention The Recovery of the Literal: Learning from...

... for Cubans an agoniz- ing daily struggle for basic survival—in the desolate landscape of a city that seemed to collapse with every May downpour—today a change is appar- ent, a slight movement of recovery from a fall...

... and the underlying economic and technological power of the nation. Omitted completely were the sufferings and struggles of the people. Recovery in the proper sense is questionable in both cases: aside from the worsening nuclear devastation, from which no recovery is in sight, or ever possible, the wounds...

...Lindsay Waters In his recent book The Swerve , Stephen Greenblatt tells the story of how the recovery of “On the Nature of Things,” by Lucretius, sparked the Renaissance and ultimately changed the direction of human thought. The focus of Greenblatt’s study is Lucretius’s atomism, an idea he claims...

... that any interruptions must be caused by foreign agents. Antago- nism to Obama operated as a trigger, which made the disintegration of the nation and the inevitability of national recovery imaginable. The renormali- zation of the financial system thereafter coexisted with populist efforts to 92...

... of the nation as a haven for immigrants and the process of self-governance through which U.S. citizens reperform the state’s surveillance of immigrants constitute asymmetrical and nonreciprocating aspects of American culture, how can Behdad’s recovery of the memory of the nation’s history...

... in Spain. After more than ten years, and despite a superficial economic recovery (at least in terms of macroeconomic numbers), the economic and social landscape of the country still looks deeply wounded. At the same time, the crisis has affected the political and even the cultural-ideological domains...

... counterpart in its desire to move beyond the legacies of the Enlightenment. David Scott initiated this critique by arguing that seemingly endless debates between contesting versions of national historiography demonstrate the limits of using the past to find justice in the present. Qadri Ismail builds...

... opened by claims of feminism, politi- cal urgency, race, class. Cary Nelson’s American Poetry Recovery Series (University of Illinois Press) has resurrected a whole roster of Left poets, augmented by some reprints from the National Poetry Foundation (Univer- sity of Maine). And even an enterprising...

... naturalizes time as linear movement: past, present, future. 1 Second is the common disciplinary practice. This past becomes the domain for history that has transformed as the field that describes the unfolding of the state or nation-state, the principal unit. Documented evidence, “facts,” are extracted...

... that would suffer most from austerity, or to consider how they might help Irish society to learn the lessons of neo- liberal disaster, or even thoughtfully to interrogate what “national recovery” might mean. Instead, the basic instinct was a guild one, and the purpose of the guild was to safeguard its...

..., that path was characterized by a strong antimarket rhetoric, the recovery of national autonomy (in contraposition to both the United States and Soviet perestroika), and a strong reliance on ethical and nationalist arguments...