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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 199–208.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to see and feel globalized geopolitics in this way, Cronenberg suggests, we risk the worst kinds of political and ethical blindness. Duke University Press 2009 Interventions Promises of Violence: David Cronenberg on Globalized Geopolitics...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 245–262.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Bruce Robbins Early postcolonial critics were at worst ambivalent about secularism, and more likely either uninterested or, like Edward Said, extremely enthusiastic. What is the meaning of the recent turn against secularism by critics in and around the field Said did so much to establish...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 32–37.
Published: 01 November 2015
...)A(N) THIS MORNIN oo a oo a (MERKIN) BOP oo a oo a AKA: oo a oo a DA MYSTERY oo a oo a oo a oo a oo a oo a oo a oo a either to be good at the worst of the things oo a oo a or a good one of the worst...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 August 2021
... ) by placing a constitutional cap on budget deficits. Several months later, Zapatero's Socialist Party would lose in a landslide to Rajoy's conservatives in the general elections, suffering the worst electoral defeat since the country's transition to democracy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Though...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 193–211.
Published: 01 May 2022
... conclusion on Grafton and Bell's part. Because so much history precedes the twentieth century, it is still a shocking conclusion. The worst is what comes after the Renaissance, after the scientific revolution, after the Republic of Letters, after the Enlightenment, after sequential declarations of human...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 197–217.
Published: 01 August 2017
.... In The Claim of Reason, he writes, I do not picture my everyday knowledge of others as confined but as exposed. It is exposed, I would like to say, not to possibilities but to actualities, to history. . . . The worst has befallen, befalls every day. It has merely, so far as I...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 193–200.
Published: 01 August 2020
... had to hear that a lot. My teacher even asked me, Why d they do it? Why did these guys attack the World Trade Center? Why would an adult ask a nine- year- old child this? And that was not the worst of it. I was personally mocked a lot. Osama bin Laden is your uncle, and I answered No, he s...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 21–23.
Published: 01 May 2014
... be a repeat of Singapore’s worst nightmare made me sit up and pay attention. Apartheid was a new word for newsreaders, and there was some confusion over the way it was pro- nounced. Aparthighed, aparthayed, a-­par-­tide, aparteed, apart-­hate. Apa tight. But that did not influence my sense...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 May 2010
...; it was not corrupt enough. Worst of all it was secondhand; it was not original and inde- pendent—it was a shadow. Poe and Whitman, like bulbs in a glass bottle, could only exhaust what was in them. Hawthorne, more ten- tacular and inquisitive, sucked every actual germ of nourishment out...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 181–184.
Published: 01 May 2002
... 2002 Books Received Adams, Stephen. The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginian Landscape. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Allister, Mark. Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography. Charlottesville: University...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 37–54.
Published: 01 August 2015
... critical moments, TEPCO evacuated all of its workers from the site at once, but Prime Minister Kan issued a government order that they return and confront the situation to avoid a worst-case­ scenario.21 This is telling of the essential conflict between management and employ- ees in nuclear power...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 199–218.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Thinkpiece, Not to Be Taken Too Seriously, but for Very Serious Reasons .” The New Inquiry (blog) . July 29 , 2014 . https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/a-snowpiercer-thinkpiece-not-to-be-taken-too-seriously-but-for-very-serious-reasons-or-the-worst-revenge-is-a-living-will/ . Berlant Lauren...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 31–57.
Published: 01 February 2018
... , February 13 . McDonald Henry . 2015 . “ Death of an Assassin: How the Killing of Kevin McGuigan Reawakened Belfast’s Political Strife .” Guardian , September 13 . Molloy Thomas . 2012 . “ Irish Meltdown Was World’s Worst since 1930s—IMF Report .” Irish Independent , June 28...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 57–75.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the worst, which civil (“internal”) war already and undoubtedly is. I might ask myself this question or presume I can do so, only to discover, with Derrida on Schmitt still, that the enemy “is he who calls into question, but he can call into question only someone who can call himself into question...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 55–76.
Published: 01 February 2013
... memory, or per- haps in moral imagination. We neglected to consider that many of his- tory’s worst atrocities, including America’s war against the Vietnamese, have been popular, and not just among the populations committing them. This is a point that Doug Henwood raises about Naomi Klein’s...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 February 2018
... and civil obedience among the peasants in Ireland . . . to make the Pope and his bishops assist an anti-papal­ English regime and a rabidly anti-catholic­ English public in keeping the Irish obedient to English authority during a mass famine and emigration of 1846–48 which was the worst in modern...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 103–134.
Published: 01 August 2000
... bashing of my own by reporting on some of the most outrageous and reprehensible aspects of the Western intellectual tradition. It is almost as though I were mustering the worst that Europe has to offer Africa and the African Americans of the New World precisely in order to insist that, even...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 215–238.
Published: 01 February 2010
..., as portrayed by Terror in the Balance? To this query one can confidently assert that, on the one hand, Pub- lius was a civil libertarian of the “worst” variety (he was indeed a panic theo- rist); and yet, on the other hand, he transcended Posner and Vermeule’s “either/or” schematic altogether...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 7–30.
Published: 01 August 2021
... situations created by the sudden drop in the earning power of the majority of the population, especially that of the youth and the middle-aged. It is from this moment that a decade of deep uncertainty begins for Martín and the rest of his generation. The first few years are, without a doubt, the worst...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 215–248.
Published: 01 August 2000
... instances. One could say, for example, that by today’s standards, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was at best a feminist essentialist, at worst a racist. Or, it is possible to blame Anna Julia Cooper, one of her generation’s most brilliantly timeless thinkers, for her fail- ure to touch on sex. Even W. E. B...