...Vicente L. Rafael President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines has exacted an enormous toll in human lives and suffering. This essay looks into one of the earliest and most graphic responses to this war: the work of photojournalists and the plurality of responses to their images. How...

... a threat so tiny, a virus, that it cannot be exploited yet for surplus value extraction. We move finally to a catechism, Vicente L. Rafael s essay Photography and the Biopolitics of Fear: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War. In this somber document, we read in a call- and- response fashion how to deal...

... : Duke University Press . Zhang Li . 2006 . “ Contesting Spatial Modernity in Late-Socialist China .” Current Anthro‐pology 47 , no. 3 : 461 – 84 . Zhang Sheldon Chin Ko-Lin . 2015 . “ A People’s War? China’s Struggle to Contain Its Illicit Drug Problem .” Washington, DC...

... as the history of drugs and war in the Golden Triangle, the border region where China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos meet. The Wa army emerged from the guerrilla troops of the Communist Party of Burma, which had been backed up by the People's Republic of China, staffed with Chinese volunteers, and trained...

... of World War I1 opened secure careers for large numbers of scholars who could show their proficiency according to established standards. The Cold War of the 1950s multiplied governmental support for studies of China, mostly, but not only...

... by Duke University Press 2012 Rusting AIDS poster, Vinh City: “Drug addiction is a path to death.” Photo by Christina Schwenkel From “the People” to “the Human”: HIV/AIDS, Neoliberalism, and the Economy of Virtue in Contemporary Vietnam Alfred Montoya Tri scooted...

... into the Pacific War. This is an important point that still deserves to be emphasized in and beyond this article. Indeed, Comintern (Communist International) analysts and most Japanese Marxists, especially early on, insisted that nationalism was a tool...

...- ers form a consensus on new theories, diagnostic methods, and drug thera- positions 6:3 Winter 1998 520 pies.12 These changes in medical practice can be fully understood only when we recognize...

... theft occurred under similar circumstances: it was the unwary, the cloudy-minded, or the drugged who fell for the wiles of qi-thieving mystagogues. Victims of these misfortunes-f yemeng gui- jiao, qi theft, and yijing-shared in common...

... explains. He would consider it “rude.”32 Both men are gifted with genius, albeit mad. Fu Manchu is a master of drugs, a “supermind,” who has found the elixir of youth along with other, more dastardly potions and biological perversions to war...

..., L’Université de Montréal, is the author of Parables of the Virtual (2002). Anne McKnight, an assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University, specializes in film noir and Cold War cultural studies in Japan...

..., doing nothing, not going anywhere, practicing yoga, and taking unidentified drugs. How did a Shangri-La of such questionable attributes come to acquire such an innocuously positive connotation? Interestingly...

... in Japan 63 1 homosexuals,” “it is beginning to spread to frequent drug abusers and hemophiliacs.” Two years later to the day, the Japanese press would admit in a double-negative...

... . “The Biopower of Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialisms and Global Feminisms in an Age of Terror.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 36 , no. 2 : 359 – 83 . ———. 2012 . The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Parreñas Rhacel...

...- cided with a signi cant reduction in the national total fertility rate to nearly replacement level ahead of scheduled goals, income increases, and market development. However, here notions of population quality are also rooted in a legacy of war...

... mobilizational atmosphere of the late 1930s Japanese empire, entering its hopeless all-out war against China and later the United States. The key words best expressing the “essence” of Harbin Russians were sorrow or pity —exactly the epithets often used by the Japanese colonialist scholars or authors about Korea...

... and hollow, are among the relations with which Manila is negotiated and made. In the final scene when Curacha loses consciousness in a crowd from a drug overdose, her last words are “wala akong makita” [I can’t see anything...

... in market-driven cycles of therapeu- tic release — drugs, alcoholism, consumerism — and projecting alternative visions, analyses and actions that proceed from particularities and arrive at moral and political connectedness.”4 This perspective offers...

.... The army's sonic broadcasting unit was successfully attuned to the regional ear of the largely rural protesters; however, the army may have been winning the battle even as the state was losing the war. The broadcasting unit had its greatest success playing rural-inflected genres like mor lam and luk thung...

... imaginations of global capitalism. travel urban form mobility Chinatown Cold War Asia References AlSayyad Nezar . 1992 . Forms of Dominance on the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise . Aldershot, UK : Avebury . Arrighi Giovanni . 1996 . “The Rise of East...