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...Heather Love This essay considers practices of observation and description in postwar microsociology as a model for contemporary practices of reading. Returning to the work of Gilbert Ryle and Clifford Geertz, Heather Love contends that the dominance of thick description in both the humanities...

... stories may disappear for many reasons. The authors call for scholars to help build and sustain this public culture through the work of digital archiving and research, and the authors emphasize a descriptive imperative, as opposed to theorizing, as the more urgent course of action. guobin.yang...

... encountering it for the first time—or even scholars who haven’t reread it since their own student days. Kuhn’s description of allencompassing and incommensurable mental worlds inhabited by scientists who practice in different paradigms resonates with the experience of readers who have experienced seismic...

... and rearticulation of their theoretical apparatus. Could the following description MIEMBETS OTTTZAVAGANT ?OW€U 69 of the postcolonial subject provided by Mbembe also describe his own theo- retical enterprise: faced with this plurality of legitimizing rubrics, institutional...

... sociologically to a uni- fied political formation. Far more importantly, the point I want to stress is that these supposed descriptions of “religious extremism” enfold a set of judgments and evaluations such that to abide by a certain description is also to uphold these judgments. Descriptions of events...

..., the Marañón and the Ucayali, which figure prominently in the descriptions that residents give of the town’s history. Nauta was settled in the eighteenth century by a Cocama man called Manual Pacaya. The town is usually said to be named after a local style of ceramic pot called a Mauta, which is associated...

... bound to femininity, it has also been affiliated with the form of the novel. In an analysis of sentimentality in Distant Suffering, Luc Bol- tanski (1999: 86) argues that a person who has witnessed suffering needs to offer two kinds of report: a descriptive account of another’s suffering...

... the way to a new paradigm for living happily, healthily, and substainedly. Please send announcements of conferences, events, and calls for papers as well as job descriptions for cultural stud- ies positions and descriptions of collective intellectual projects to Public Culture’s editorial office...

...- ciently systematic to warrant scientific descriptions—which are systematic as well. Whatever individual theorists mean by the term, “the social” has become thinkable as part of the long history of reification that we call modernity. I would like to thank Routledge for permission to publish this essay...

...Ludwig Ammann © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Ludwig Ammann is a project assistant at the Islam and Public Space Project at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen. He is the author of Die Geburt des Islam: Historische Innovation durch Offenbarung (2001). A description...

... of California Press, 1997), 168  –  78, for a description and analysis of the anti-Hindi agitation in Tamilnadu. 19. English replaced Persian as the official language of the British colonial government in India in 1835. 20...

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... in the August 1897 issue of the Atlantic Monthly under the title “Strivings of the Negro People,” reprinted in the fi rst chapter of Souls, and famous for a century for its description of the “two warring ideals” of Americanism and Africanism, Du...

... of the cosmopolitan did indeed emerge under colonial conditions, and some other form of cosmopolitanism may be developing today. Nevertheless, the description of Shanghai and Hong Kong I give here is not intended to be a straightforward...

... is that complex objects of investigation such as organisms, but also genes themselves, cannot successfully be characterized by one single best description, explanation, let alone definition. It all depends on the integration and articulation of more than one description, explanation, and definition, a “pluri...

... description. Broadly speaking, one can identify two main approaches to the con- cept of self. On the one hand, there are those who valorize the self as the center of power, of consciousness, of action and epistemic privilege. On the other hand, there are those who vigorously challenge such an approach...

... of forecasters themselves. Within six months of the discovery, the U.S. Department of Energy stated that “the most striking aspect of the price pattern [described] was the fact that natural gas prices would be sustained at such high levels.” They note that the descriptions themselves were...

... and a historian is relevant here: Souls includes both meticulous accounts of historical events of the previous decades and descriptions and analyses of the experiences and attitudes of African Americans.30 But presenting information was never his...

..., the significance of Manaus lies in arrival. For another, its significance comes with departure. Some come to stay; others come to go, using Manaus in a manner akin to Avital Ronell’s description of the telephone system: “A place without location from...

..., echoed descriptions of the 9/11 hijackers by referring to the insurgents as a “phantom enemy.”11 Experts readily championed the resurgent spectral language as well. In A Devil’s Triangle Peter Brookes wrote of the “spec- ter of superterrorism.”12 According to Richard J. Chasdi, the new challenges...