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...Finn Arne Jørgensen The rise of cabin porn— images of beautiful cabins in nature—as a visual genre reflects a growing international interest in cabins, shedworking, and rustic, exurban living off the grid, most of it romanticizing rural and low-tech lifestyles. On the surface, the digitally...

... that cannot improve lives to military outreach programs devoted to well-being, and from seductive images of rural cabins to jailhouse studio photography. In the first of two Forum essays, Sudhir Venkatesh looks at recent disruptions and enduring myths in advertising, an industry whose fortunes continue...

... to be a communal affair, generously supported by public spending. 11 ) But the affect of family teamwork affirmed by the show, I suggest, has less to do with historical authenticity than with contemporary needs and values. Even when the togetherness generated in a one-room cabin proves difficult to reproduce...

... related his ordeal: “For the first week they locked us up in our cabins separately. They did not want us on the deck or talking to each other. I missed two things desperately that week . . . talking to my family on Skype and exercising. I was going crazy in my cabin all day. If someone complained...

... University Press. Constable, Nicole. 2003. Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnog- raphy, and “Mail Order” Marriages. Berkeley: University of California Press. Coons, Lorraine, and Alexander Varias. 2003. Tourist Third Cabin...

.... At that time, I had just had my hair permed and dyed blonde, and so people on the boat thought that I was Russian. Anyway, finally we set off, but it was still very rough, and it took several days. I spent most of the time in my cabin, but close to when we were about to arrive, I decided to go out...

.... See New York Tribune, June 17, 1865; Peter Randolph, From Slave Cabin to Pulpit (Boston: Earle, 1893), 94-95; John Thomas OBrien, Jr., “From Bondage to Citizenship: The Richmond Black Community, 1865-1867” (Ph.D. diss., University of Rochester, 1974), 273-275. I I2 out...

... of legal, political, and economic (infra)structures on which today's capitalist world still rests (Khalili 2022 ). Domination at sea was primarily unleashed via the cannons, cargos, and cabins of colonial ships. These floating infrastructures brought waves of conquest and commodification, spreading...

... that there were indeed shops—Gupta mentions Gyanbabu’s Teashop, Favourite Cabin on Mirzapur Street, Basanta Cabin opposite Calcutta University, and the College Street YMCA restaurant—that fostered a culture of adda among university stu- dents in the mid- to late-1930s, the chain of Coffee Houses and Sangu...

... Uncle Tom's Cabin , were written in a sentimental mode. These works made frequent appeal to readers’ sympathies to advance the antislavery cause. Such appeals were premised on decidedly unironic values like interpersonal transparency and sincerity. But irony and sincerity were not always easily...

... Cabin Republicans (see Marvin Liebman’s Coming Out Conservative) to conservative (Bruce Bawer) or neoconservative (Andrew Sullivan) intellectu- als.11 This was when “a (conservative) case for gay marriage” was first made.12 In 1993, the Hawaii Supreme Court revived...

..., George Shelby in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Edward Clayton in Dred . But where Stowe imagined niceness as a fantasy of conversion that would magically resolve sectional conflict without war (a fantasy that she knew at a basic level would remain unrealized), Addams was far more invested in niceness...

... of a master). And yet black motherhood is also the sentimental trope on which some stirrings of white abolitionist sympathy are built, most notably through Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its portrayal of the desperate attempts of Eliza to retain custody of her son. After the Civil War, black motherhood would undergo...

... this man was crazy. He asked us to wait and ran back to his cabin and returned with a thick pile of neatly filed papers. He had written several letters to the foreign ministry of the Government of India and to the embassies of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. While there were...