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... of Feminist Cultural Studies 2021 anticolonialism counterinsurgency Indian Mutiny literary and visual archives photo history postcolonial theory refugee writing Removed from home at bayonet point, an editor salvages the manuscripts of a dead author only to degrade them through fraudulent...

...Ankhi Mukherjee This essay examines singular traumas suffered by Tibetan refugees and expedient and culture-specific cures for the same. Drawing on Honey Oberoi Vahali’s Lives in Exile and other ethnographic studies of the Tibetan community in Dharamsala, India, it shows how classic trauma theory...

...Emrah Yildiz Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of lgbt + and queer Iranians have sought asylum through the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Turkey. As recent queer and feminist scholarship has demonstrated, a “gay enough” litmus test often determines whether...

... Dirty Pretty Things exposes the gritty scenes of trafficking in human body parts and the wretched existence of refugee life that consti- tute the underbelly of London’s glamour by holding viewers in the thrall of a constant mobility...

... against Neoliberal Challenges to the Traditional Trade Unionism in Turkey: 1986–1991 .'' phd diss. Boğaziçi University , Istanbul, Turkey , 2010 . Erder S. `` New Trends in International Migration: Is Turkey an Immigration Country? '' Writing for Mubeccel Kıray Atacan . Ed. Ercan F...

... and guest but rather signals litigious circumscriptions, as well as contaminated and bleeding boundaries of sameness and alterity, livability and unlivability, home and exile. 24 A woman refugee from Bosnia writes about her new “home...

...: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination . Trans. David Ames Curtis. Stanford: Stanford up, 1997 . 3 -18. Foucault, Michel. “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the College de France, 1975–1976 . Trans. David Macey. New York: Picador, 2003 . Freud, Sigmund...

...). What, then, of our naked refugee? Phillips writes that “psychoanalysis is first and foremost a psychology of, and for, immigrants (people who can never quite settle)” ( Becoming 30 ). Psychoanalysis, he continues, is not a Jewish science as Freud feared, but an immigrant science for a world...

... controversial judgments, Arendt re-created for herself the conditions of her own precarity, summoning time and again her personal formative trauma as a refugee only to survive it each time. Arendt’s uncharacteristically two-dimensional account of Eichmann’s personality in Eichmann in Jerusalem is read along...

..., and from the factory to the bourgeois family. The film does all of this in ways that look forward to Basaglia’s work well in advance. But it also puts pressure on the reformist impulse that arguably animates Basaglia’s reception if not his own writing. Rossellini pointed to various sources of inspiration...

...JOAN WALLACH SCOTT 2002 joan wallach scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book is Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Harvard University Press, 1996). She is writing a book about...

... faultlines: global socioeconomic inequality, capitalism and empire, the military-industrial order, civil conflict, donor fatigue, contempt for and fright of refugees. Notably, Mabanckou and Trouillot (significantly, the two writers in the issue to hail from formerly colonized nations—Congo and Haiti...

... and rethread. But at a certain point the analyst’s capacities are overwhelmed; he gets caught in the net. Here, Freud explicitly figures the nucleus as a hole, the navel into which all the interlocking paths cut, impossible to trace as they branch out of and into a void. This is why, as Schor writes...

... Arendt Hannah . The Life of the Mind . Ed. McCarthy Mary . New York : Harcourt , 1978 . Arendt Hannah . “ We Refugees .” Menorah Journal 31 ( 1943 ): 69 – 77 . Hannah Arendt . 2012 . Dir. Margarethe von Trotta . Zeitgeist Films , 2013 . Kohn Jerome . Email...

.... “Effective altruism,” Singer writes, “is based on a very simple idea: we should do the most good we can” ( Most vii). Effective altruism is “the project of using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible, and taking action on that basis” ( MacAskill 2 ). Taking action...

.... McNeil, Genna Rae. “From the Kennedy Commission to the Combahee Collective: Black Feminist Organizing, 1960-80.” African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement . Ed. Bettye Collier-Thomas and V. P. Franklin. New York: New York up, 2001 . Moraga, Cherrié, “Refugees of a World...

... refugees. He writes, People do not really believe that they are descended from royalty, and at this point they have no way of confirming it. But even while tacitly acknowledging as much...

... at gearing up to write this book. Planning to invoke “ethics,” I felt I needed to read Emmanuel Levinas (in the past ten years I have often seen Levinas cited when ethics is invoked). So I have started reading Levinas—Le Temps et...

... cultivated under the sign of queer . For many scholars, queer held critical promise precisely because its antinormativity was bound to a refusal of institutional forms of all kinds, including those most familiar in discipline-oriented terms. Writing in 1995, David Halperin argued in favor of queer...

...!, offers a stirring com- mentary on the current political climate in the United States. His main concern, he writes, is the threat to the First Amendment: The First Amendment to the u.s. Constitution protects ‘the right...