...Jamie Cross The export processing or free trade zones that have been built since the 1960s across Central America and the Caribbean, north Africa and the Gulf states, and South and Southeast Asia have emerged as uniquely charged objects of anticipation—hope, conviction, and anxiety—about...

... hope transitional justice social movements In July 2016, a series of curious posters appeared overnight on the walls of downtown Tunis. Designed in the Hollywood Western style, with the word “WANTED” brandished across the top, the posters featured associates of former president Zine al-Abidine...

...Kamrouz Pirouz After becoming prime minister for the second time, and having won the oil nationalization case at the World Court, Muhammad Musaddiq was hopeful that the British would be more compromising in their approach toward the oil nationalization issue. He was also hopeful of the American...

... of hope and struggle, individual and collective, often lacking what movements are reckoned by: leaders, blueprints, manifestos, and cadre. Their performative and material practices of communication, and modes of mediation more broadly, are increasingly prominent, and increasingly difficult to separate...

... presses. By examining Hofmeyr's Gandhi in light of the Indian newspaper landscape of East Africa about which I am familiar, I hope to draw some comparisons about the purpose and meaning of print and reading culture between these two Indian diasporic contexts. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Walter D. Mignolo Mignolo's essay engages with Siba Grovogui's text Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy , focusing specifically on coloniality. Mignolo discusses how both modernity and coloniality engendered all kinds of reactions, from the violent anti-imperial to the more hopeful decolonial, from...

...Ravinder Kaur At the turn of the second millennium, the sign of the South underwent a dramatic reconfiguration. It no longer stands for just debt, deprivation, and dystopia in the eyes of the world. It is also seen as an emerging market—a place of hope, optimism, and possibilities, even the future...

...Alla Gadassik Amir Naderi is one of Iran’s most internationally acclaimed directors, and he is considered to be among the central figures in the nation’s postrevolutionary film industry. Paradoxically, his choice to leave Iran in hopes of expanded artistic opportunities in the United States has...

... unexpected consequences of rapid oil wealth significantly hindered the production of the rational and usable city the state was hoping for. As such, state development projects from the early 1960s onward focused more on how the city looked than on how it actually worked, creating an urban spectacle that gave...

... with his dismissal as the Iranian minister counselor in Paris in 1934 — shows him as a mature politician, no longer idealistic but still hoping to contribute to Iran’s sociopolitical development under Reza Shah Pahlavi’s new regime. It is in this phase that he signs the Anglo-Iranian oil agreement of 1933...

...Elizabeth Banks Abstract This article examines negotiations on aid, scholarship provision, and a hoped-for visit by former cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, that took place between the Committee for Soviet Women (KSZh) and the Organization for Mozambican Women (OMM) as a lens into Soviet-African...

... in the torn country and facilitated democratic elections but did not terminate the Afghan turmoil and the threat of its regional spillover effects. Six years after the invasion, hopes for renovation, peace, and stability are entwined with great challenges and fears of continuing insecurity. Alongside efforts...

... to photograph satellites flying overhead to gather data to produce a new model of the Earth, one that Soviet scientists hoped would be an alternative to Western models. I argue that these technical artifacts in Africa, connected into a single global network, represented examples of “infrastructural irruptions...

... to us from the rather explicitly. However, we hope that some articles will dubious essentialization of the West and has set the do so, and from time to time we hope to encourage stage for the polemical association of modernity, authors to focus on the theoretical and methodo- democracy...

... is profoundly, urgently right . I am grateful for his insistence on grounding my account in the substantive stakes that give corruption meaning in people's lives. I fear Kale and Dasgupta may be too hopeful in their vision of how Vaishnav's book and my own might provide hope for long-term improvements. I...

... into a   museum,” reflected the naive hopes and false sense of confidence that many felt on that cold of and unforgettable February morning. But Evin’s gates were closed to the public the very next Studies...

... to communicate this with the metaphor “none of place. By taking this step, she hoped to have the the women stayed at home.” She took part in numer- chance to pursue her own plans independently...

... Hopes … .” Interview with Nehru Jawaharlal , Playboy , October 1963 . Outlook , November 11, 2014 . www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/what-tomorrows-india-will-be-like-i-cant-say-i-have-my-hopes/292499 . Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli Chattopadhyay Kamaladevi Kalelkar Kakasaheb...

... the Cold War superpowers hoped to achieve in their “scholarship race.” This becomes clear if we follow some of the subaltern routes leading out from Dar to Moscow and beyond, and the article concludes with a revealing glimpse of two such paths. In mapping Soviet influence across the different scales...

... to reconcile their queerness with their blackness. I hope that recounting (nonfictional) stories makes the book more accessible to all readers. At the time of this writing, I am working to broaden the book's scope and accessibility through organizing book readings in multiple languages, concentrating...