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..., spectrometers, pollution-monitoring apps, and PCR tests are just a few examples. domestic life biopolitics STS Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 ...

...Anneeth Kaur Hundle Through the theoretical interrogation of both “diversity” and “decolonization” as key concepts in contemporary university life, this essay (1) offers a vision for a transnational “decolonizing diversity” approach that serves as public and political pedagogy within and beyond...

... apartments and Soviet domestic life. In the center is a middle-aged woman, a heroine of the "Great Patriotic War," proud mistress of the new apartment, who looks like she is about to break into a Russian folk dance. Nearby is her son, an exemplary good boy and young pioneer, and there is a portrait...

... or sojourning abroad. Working as nannies has placed them in a unique position to learn about the foreigners’ ways and habits. In the intimate setting of domestic life, the nanny is a participatory observer of the foreigners in their simulated native habitat. She gets to see them...

... continue the ethnography I have been conducting in the area since 2010, but with a new goal: to understand the immediate and lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the domestic life of these families. The pandemic does not arrive in an ahistorical place, as noted by Veena Das ( 2020a ). Battles...

... public visibility were endorsed by the feminine elites and encouraged by the “paternalizing males” of the young republic, who shared a nationalist pride in creating a new part of the “civilized” Western world.14 Domestic life and ideals were...

... against inflation. And all objects that are visible parts of American domestic life are, especially among the middle and upper classes, badges of lifestyle, not of life as such. Martha Stewart is a heroine because she brought high-end style to the middle classes, bringing gourmet cooking...

... to residue allows us to understand war-making abroad in relationship to domestic life—and, more broadly, to the dirty work relegated to the suburban periphery. Many of us are committed to knowledge production that supports more just (sub)urban futures. This might take shape as what Irene Peano names...

... amenities may be limited or absent. These humble objects of domestic life are thus proleptic tools of a domes- ticity without houses, houseless domesticity. In the purchase and assemblage of these objects, which imply a domestic plenitude that is surely exaggerated, Bom...

... heterosexuality and homosexuality. In addi- tion, the exclusion of women from politics is clearly not unrelated to their role in domestic life, just as the recognition of gay couples’ private lives obviously implies their institutional (i.e., public...

... the tourist to appropriate, consume, and thereby “tame”the cultural other”’ (Corrigan 1991, 83). Becky appreciates and identifies with Henry in a manner normally reserved for representations. He is a subject-text both materially present in her domestic life like a videotape and outside...

... and public versions of domestic life with disabled children in an effort to reconfigure the discursive space defining these social fields. At the same time, a combination of forces—the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion...

... was inimical to bourgeois domesticity. As he puts it: “The strong herd-instinct of the natives of Calcutta has virtually killed family life. There is no custom among them of a man sitting with his wife and children in the evening. It is hardly possible even to find them at home at any hour of the day...

... comes out with stark clarity in Pushpa’s case. Pushpa failed to comport herself in accordance with gender norms, even in the public spaces configured by her domes- tic life—the overflow of her behavior beyond the domestic bounds was a threat...

...-talk in welfare- state societies. Then, in section 11, I relate this discourse model to social- structural considerations, especially to shifts in the boundaries between 'political,' 'economic' and 'domestic' or 'personal' spheres of life in late- capitalist societies. Then, in section 111, I...

... and giving shape to a new kind of postwar domesticity where leisure and media become the key centers of everyday life. As opposed to just a radio or TV cabinet, the Storagewall puts media objects into a discursive network 30...

... that are extensions of the rentier and/or freelance economy. The home producer who does not have Kingsolver’s book royalties as a backup and has not monetized her own domestic labor by selling crafts on Etsy or maintaining an ad-supported life style blog usually relies on the flexible, tech-enabled economy...

... which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve 12 today the scene [of domestic life, as opposed to the scene of history] and the mirror no longer exist; instead there is a screen and network. In place of the re- flexive transcendence of mirror...

...Cindi Katz This commentary on Afflicted Powers focuses on RETORT's theorization of the spectacle. Through a discussion of mimetic versus metonymic politics and an examination of childhood as a site of spectacle, the domestic security state and the social reproduction of weak citizenship are brought...

... territories, it is important to understand how domestic violence acts as political violence, thus opening the domestic onto a wider range of considerations. Domestic territories are further reconfigured by the spread of new and emerging technologies ingrained in day-to-day life. Digital infrastructures...