...Allison Truitt The fight against inflation is a defining feature of neoliberalism and structural adjustment policies. Since the 1970s, inflation has been cast as a threat greater than unemployment because it destroys the pricing mechanism on which the flow of information in markets depends...

..., though not wholly one or the other, cast light on their patchy, place-based strategies of accumulation, as they increasingly sever their sources of livelihood from their collective land and become incorporated into the urban core. References Al Stefan , ed. 2014 . Villages in the City...

... expectations of family members are inscribed within military law, rhetorically casting the family as a threatened body that needs protection. However, the normative experience of the family in crisis produces violence against gender and sexual minorities. The author concludes by discussing the dangerous...

... contemplative spectator middle class Indian cinema Kerala caste the Left References Cynic . 1953 . “Indian Cinema in 1952.” Mathrubhoomy Weekly , January 25 , 93 . Desai Manali . 2005 . “Indirect British Rule, State Formation, and Welfarism in Kerala, India, 1860–1957...

... of these, Paruthiveeran, Veyil, and Sub- ramaniapuram are included under the category of Madurai films and have been discussed as films that represent or recast Madurai or regions around it through graphic scenes of violence, caste difference, and what...

... development, fueled in part by the predominantly Hindu and upper- caste middle class, was the rise of Hindu nationalism in the political sphere, which hardened ideas of masculinity around the idea of a virile, aggressive, Hindu male modeled on the god Ram while invoking goddess iconography to cast Hindu women...

... Roles of High-Caste Women in Nepal . New York : Colombia University Press . Berlant Lauren . 1997 . The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Bier Laura . 2010 . “ ‘The Family Is a Factory’: Gender...

..., and today the national census does not recognize any racial groups in India. Social conflicts in India are better described in terms of “communalism,” in which hierarchies of community, caste, and religion organize social relations. Thus, Western...

... not with the enthusiasm of passion but rather as a synec- doche for the blasE attitude that social theorists have identified with cul- tures of modernity and capitalism; sometimes dissident passion in general, and homosexuality in particular, is cast...

... by the impending end of its colonial history.16 Nevertheless, they fail to consider how Cheung’s gendered, foreign pres- ence and performance actually work for the deconstructive agenda.17 To address this issue, I examine the signi cance of casting Cheung...

... colonial period, polit- ical battles over the nature of Indian society and the form of the future nation — ­including eruptions of religious violence and demands to redress caste-­based discrimination — ­were fought through the medium of num...

... are also consumers, combine pleasure and politics to critique the limits placed on their sexual choices and opportunities. By evaluating the full-­frontal casting call initiated by Keni Styles, the first Asian heterosexual porn star, on his...

.... The recent outbreak was cast as a surprise: as Singaporean journalist Kirsten Han ( 2020 ) cuttingly characterized the official reaction, “You can't have foresight for things you refuse to see.” In contrast to the way that the government dealt with Singaporean citizens, cases among construction workers were...

... Ali Bannerjee meraa dil luut liyaa, oye Malhotra meraa dil luut liyaa —  **tuu ruup nagar kii raanii badii mastaanii meraa dil luut liyaa, haaii meraa dil luut liyaa” (You, a saint from the city of love, cast a spell upon me and looted my heart...

... of conceptualizations that cast people's characteristics as ontologically given properties of the individuals or groups to which they belong. Whether apotheosizing individual will in ideologies of self-fashioning or casting it into the pit, as in neurochemical determinism or sociobiology; whether attributing group...

... the correlation between Asia in New York (concretized within the space of a trendy sushi bar and a Pan-Asian American cast of characters) and Orchid Island off the coast of Taiwan (a “fourth world” space of aborig- inal people and traditional practices...

... assistants, as well as concerned community members, from the moment of casting to the shooting, editing, release, and reception of the nal product. Since the release, our work has also been in ected by racial visibility activ- ism in collaboration...

..., especially because it is not a matter of identifying choice. A division of labor that is maintained by an implicit ethnocentrism in its categories makes academia, as practiced, much more caste-like than institutions stratified by other...

... Kris ( 2009 ). M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism . New Dehli : Routledge India . Menon Dilip M. ( 1994 ). Caste, Nationalism, and Communism in South India: Malabar, 1900–1948 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Menon Dilip M. ( 2010 ). A Local...