... and migrant justice. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 environmental racism hazard suburbs peripheries US empire I study US empire and the afterlives of counterinsurgent warfare in a place alternately called a suburb, a city, a periphery, an exurb...

..., rivalries, successes, and failures—reminds us of something overlooked in recent decades: that sovereignty in the past and in many areas today is complex, divided, layered, and configured on multiple founding principles and practices. This article points to the varied repertoires of power used by empires...

...Chandra Mukerji This essay builds on theories of space and power, addressing the question of how spaces can exercise pedagogical power with political effects. It focuses empirically on the gardens of Versailles in seventeenth-century France, when the park was used to promote the view of France...

...Zeynep Tufekci Hardly a month passes without a popular news outlet or a pundit asking if the Internet is making us lonely. Meanwhile, social media remains the Internet’s most popular application, and almost every empirical study suggests that Internet use corresponds to more social interaction...

... that our attention is not only centered on the visual traces of the extinct past that resurfaces; rather, we also scan the vestiges of the future that these images distill. Their use of a visual rhetoric that defines scenarios, excludes or includes protagonists, and, most crucially, evokes pedagogies...

...Cotten Seiler How will the car affect China, that once “immobile empire”? US media accounts put tremendous faith in automobility as a maker of liberal political subjects as China undergoes its postsocialist transformation. But is the type of freedom offered by automobilized modernity necessarily...

...Dorien Zandbergen This empirical-critical study looks at the Air Quality Egg project, a Euro-American effort focused on the collaborative creation of a “smart” air quality sensor network. While widely celebrated as a “best practice” example of bottom-up smart city making, the involvement of a US...

... politics, marked by the publication of The Black Hole of Empire, and his concerns about the kinds of large-­scale comparisons that are ubiquitous in contemporary social science. “A great deal of comparison in comparative politics, for instance, uses empirical data that are not strictly comparable...

... to US empire? AS: It didn’t feel like much of a stretch. Almost twelve years ago, a friend and feminist historian, Linda Gordon, invited me to organize a plenary session at the Organization of American Historians meetings on empire and the intimate, on the thought that US historians needed more...

... structurally or otherwise, con­ nections between an enormous heterogeneity and claims to belonging to an utterly homogeneous space called “us,” the collectivity called the nation? This is where my later work moved. MG...

... Mae San Pablo Burns has argued in Puro Arte : Filipinos on the Stages of Empire , are the very colonial subjects disavowed by a “reluctant” US empire that veiled its imperial ambitions in the language of “liberation” and democratization. 9 Iyer (1989 : 153), the same journalist who profiled Inoue...

... be sourced from where it is lived and not from worlds far removed from the action. Too often, war is narrated from its other (imperial) end. War is dominated by the accounts of those who wage it (who are the agents of empire more often than not, just think of US wars in Vietnam and Iraq—faceless, nameless...

... be understood. If colonizers interpreted Indianness and Blackness in juxtaposition, or at times interchangeably, in the context of slavery, theories of racial supremacy developed and flourished in a color-defined empire. Caste norms in the Indian context thus prevailed by imposing color-caste order. In the US...

... . The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and US Expansion in Central America . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Connolly N. D. B. 2014 . A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Connolly William E...

... understandings of how a common language should be used. For colonial studies — a field devoted to the nature of European empires, their rationales, technologies, and representations of rule — thinking critically about empire in the current context prompts pointed questions: Do the conventions...

... politics, which varied from colony to colony but generally used women as a cultural weapon against native men, especially during crises. The unveiling ceremony staged by French gener- als on May 16, 1958, flanked by their wives, was a case in point. As the women dropped their veils on cue before...

... to American global-economic policy. The need for criticism not of virtual empire 348 but of actual nation-state self-determination and its limited liabilities then takes U.S. Power, us back to the present, to U.S. power, now, and the debates over its proper use in after 9/11 U.S...

.... There are, of course, ongoing scholarly and popular dialogues around what seems to be a continual state of war across the globe that is perpetuated, and often perpetrated, by the forces and relations of a hypermilitarized US “empire.” Critiques in this vein tend to assume that specific societies, and humanity at large...

... It reminds us that the nation-­state is inseparable from Empire 24. Mongin, Lempereur, and Schlegel, “Qu’est-­ce que la pensée postcoloniale?” 121. 25. Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China...

.... Consider again Burke’s words from the famous Guildhall speech: This victory [in the American war], which seemed to put an immedi- ate end to all difficulties, perfected us in that spirit of domination, which 9. Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters, ed. David...