... of Mediterranean religion also emerged through the conflict and interaction between Jews, Muslims, and Christians. In particular, I focus on what I call the economics of spiritual exchange. To show what I mean, I center on the Renaissance of the twelfth century, a period of highly active spiritual exchange...

... very useful for ministers and moralists concerned with the moral and economic consequences of unnecessary and “superfluous” consumption for individuals, households, and communities. Resorting to populist and didactic genres like pamphlets, sermons, dialogues, and treatises, writers ranging from...

... Lopez Antay, who defended the artistic integrity of his craftwork against economic demands. On that note, the networks of rural-urban migrants negotiate their standing in the modernizing process with a strong and flexible Indigenous identity. Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of Colorado...

.... Romero’s vision urges us to see catastrophe where we are accustomed to seeing only the mundane, and collective trauma where we routinely see only individual trauma. In Martin ’s version of horror, the economic decline of Braddock, Pennsylvania, is paired with trauma connected to the Vietnam War...

... of postmillennial economic failure and political crisis. This article examines gothic elements of the vaporwave music phenomenon to analyze how vaporwave expresses sociopolitical traumas of late capitalism. Derridean notions of hauntology articulate the individual’s self-isolation and objectification under...

... and Al-Andalus, was meant for Christian domination and economic looting. Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of Colorado 2020 Geoffrey Chaucer borderlands North Africa Iberian Peninsula medieval literature I have recently become a resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The history...

... to bear the weight of Orientalist commodification for a market of female consumers. This essay traces the literary, historical, cultural, social, and economic significance of both Kashmiri and European shawls, reading them alongside the production of cotton textiles and in the larger context...

... to pay attention to seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury economic writings and to the flourishing of the modern commercial state in Georgian England in order to better under­ stand and explain the em ergence and rise to prom inence of the novel. David K aufm ann s The Business of Common Life: Novels...

... has written, “The government of human mobility might well be the most important problem to confront the world during the first half of the 21st century.” 1 On the one hand, human mobility and any attempt to regulate it depend on geopolitical variables, economic calculations, and international...

.... Rather than seeing the material turn as a dialectical corrective to the excesses of the linguistic and cultural turns, Bogost, in his pursuit of a phenom enology of the object, foregoes both subjectivity and politics altogether. How then to think through politics and what's m ore political-econom y from...

... development and social, cultural, and economic relapse after 1902 and during Machado’s role, see Macías Martín, “La diplomacia española ante el ‘Machadato.’” 43 Kanellos, History of Hispanic Theatre , 122 . 42 Kanellos, History of Hispanic Theatre , 163 . The children’s theater became...

... season to season and fro m d o lla r to dollar, w ith little opportunity in this capitalist circuitry to im prove their econom ic condition let alone establish a residence. A fte r traveling from Seattle to Klam ath Falls in search o f work, fo r instance, Carlos is lite rally kicked across the Oregon...

... that contributes to what fashion sustainability may look like for Bahrain and the Gulf. The fashion industry in the Gulf has grown alongside oil-fueled economic growth for the past four decades. In Bahrain apparel and textile exports have grown largely due to a long-standing free-trade agreement on textile...

... u m m er 2009 96 E n g l is h L a n g u a g e N o tes 47.1 S pr in g / S u m m e r 2 0 0 9 that I teach at an elite, private university located in the m idst of an economically-depressed com m unity. Situated in South Bethlehem, the Lehigh campus literally sits in the shadow o f the abandoned steel...

... As such, transnationalism seemed to offer a significant and perhaps unprecedented degree of political, economic, and cultural agency to people of relatively modest means, who could thus escape some of the limitations two nation-states had separately placed on their lives. As it turned out, these new ways of thinking...

..., and a further legitimation of lies and right-wing violence. The horror of the pandemic often blinds us to the fact that antidemocratic economic and political forces that have prioritized profits over human needs have grinded away at the social order for the last forty years. The pandemic at its height revealed...

..., such as the disenfranchising economics of late capitalism and the ostensibly ubiquitous anim osity that is directed towards queer persons and people living w ith AIDS (PWAs). M y Brother instantiates this critique by showing the space of home as a prim ary site o f intersectlonallty where social relations are sim ultane­...

... "speech," no longer involves, if it ever did, the per­ sonal narrative o f sovereign, liberal hum anist subject. W hen we speak o f "the doctor's" we speak o f the econom y of the physician-patient relation­ ship.That now bygone relationship involves understanding "econom y" as oikonom ia, "la w o f...

..., and eccentric economic practices" (1 ). Her theoretical position here, however, does not com m it the sin of essentialism; indeed, she continually insists that queer subcultural practices have "clear but not essential relations to gay and lesbian subjects" (6). So, instead of recapitulating the alleged­ ly...

... making. Human labor is literally the means by w hich people constitute their historical being and the world around them. This insight is im portant, as it challenges com m onsensical understanding of M arxism that it is prim a rily econom istic, hence n a rro w ly attentive to "w a g ed la bor" or work...