Search Results for displacement

... the multiple dimensions of “return” in the context of physical displacement, loss, cultural erasure, and diaspora negotiations of belonging and exile. Identifying return as both a right and as a metaphor, it looks at gendered realities of Palestinian and Palestinian-American experience, critiques the dichotomy...

... and cultural imperialism of East Asia in the borderlands of the Americas, but the spectralizing processes by which displaced women of color are denied material presence and recognition as living labor. Situating Maquilapolis as a case study and prime text for rethinking women's subjugation as well...

...Eman Ghanayem Abstract Part memoir, part theoretical reflection, this essay offers one answer to the question “How do Palestinians grieve?” In this narration of the author’s mother’s relationship to death, her multiple displacements, and her plan for her life, the term proactive grief is used...

... return within several contexts: the struggle for women's human rights (a struggle that is feminist even if"gender oppression" is not its sole focus); writing by Palestinian-American women, whose literary responses to displacement offer new perspectives on exile and homecoming; and personal reflections...

... of a "crusade" against the Muslim enemy, and an explicit Manichean logic whereby "those who are not with us are against us." Those who lead a crusade of good against evil and divide the world between two camps have no tolerance for ambiguity, displacement, or fragmentation. Any transaction between one pole...

... in the healing powers of more violence and forced displacement. When Hafeeza spoke to us about her experience of war and the Taliban from a refugee camp in Peshawar, it was in the year 2000, when the world's interest in Afghanistan had slipped to its lowest point ever. The UN international appeal...

... have focused my research on how, as a result of the forced demolition ofurban neighborhoods and displacement of residents, urban spaces are terrains of constant struggle for blacks, women, and poor people in Brazil. Lacking the legal and financial means to counter urban redevelopment, residents of poor...

... with these nuances, "corruption" obscures as it minimizes the problem of people's exclusion from relief programs. The language and solutions developed from this meeting sharply contradict the UN's "Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement." This document states that authorities should take "special efforts...

... implicate race and gender. To illustrate this paradox of positionality, I discuss the adoption of Asian babies by U.S. white women and how the academic attention to the transnational spaces of these adoptions displaces attention to matters oflocal color and gender. The Transnational Imperative Recent trends...

... harvests, loss of equipment and business sites, difficulty finding buyers for goods since income levels have been severely reduced, and depletion of capital due to displacement or hosting friends and families who have been displaced. Farmers, many of whom are women, have been unable to farm due to Boko...

... study ofHans Sloane's Natural History of]amaicathat if this text attempts to erase the violence to living plants and animals and the brutal human displacements demanded by the plantation economy, traces of such violences always resurface. She argues that forgetting is impossible, in part because memory...

... to official estimates, 230,000 people lost their lives.' The same number suffered injuries, and over 1.3 million were displaced. Reports of property damage to homes and businesses also reached hundreds of thousands. Churches and peristyles (Vodou temples), art centers, schools, and government ministries were...

... of a campaign that misplaces and displaces anxieties about economic, social, political, and cultural changes onto outsiders and foreigners. In his article "Natives and Nativism," Jonah Paretti persuasively argues that the language of exotic/alien plant and animal "invasions" reflects a pervasive nativism...

... mechanisms in their exercise of expansionary sovereignty, which recurrently comes at the cost of Assyrians’ sovereignty on their territory. It is at this juncture where I see an opening to make space for and learn from Indigenous feminisms to look at the displacement and dispossession of the Assyrian...

...,and translated into various other languages at different times. 3 Many critics consider MulberryandPeacha quintessential Chinese modernist novel, focusing on its theme of a lonely individual's exile, its delineation of the trauma of displacement, its depiction of the nostalgia for the homeland and the desire...

... of history to locate moments of queer Chicana erotic exchange that displace Chicana sexuality from its necessary relationship to nationalist chronopolitics. La Devuelta: Queer Times and Color Lines 'When my hands are empty I willbefull" (Chrystos 1981) Chrystos marks out the paradoxical relationship between...

... women standing in the New Orleans Superdome conjure a stadium full of Hurricane Katrina’s displaced and dispossessed survivors. The silent figures of women standing in the woods conjure the many thousands gone under to a cruel slaveocracy—elders lashed to a bloody death; runaways torn limb by limb...

... sexualities in the diaspora. If we take "wine and jam" cultures seriously as a wish to "free up the streets" for progressive gender politics, what kind of grievance can soca performances enact? As performance critic Richard Schechner helpfully elucidates on Bahktin's temporary power displacement during...

... views the impact of war and internal repression in a larger context of global histories of displacement, forced migrations, and expulsions. We oppose the U.S. and European sponsorship of regimes responsible for coerced displacements, and we note how patterns of immigration, exile, and forced flight...

.... [Meridians:feminismra, ce,transnationalism2002, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 302-8] ©2002 by Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. 302 Second, a transnational feminist response views the impact of war and internal repression in a larger context of global histories of displacement, forced migrations, and expulsions. We...