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...Robert P. Marzec This essay explores the erasure of the ecological commons as an environmental and representative space of political contestation, in and through the development of a specific type of imaging process that transforms the ecological commons into a spectacle. Specifically, it examines...

...Jess Bier Maps are considered to be an ultimate expression of modernity. Empirical cartography plays a central role in daily governance, and it also has a long history of furthering displacement and erasure. In this article I argue that the landscapes of historic British colonialism and the ongoing...

... personal lives with national projects, individual/collective oblivion with national erasure, and mapping with experiences of creation and destruction. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 cartography Brazil erasure national imaginaries In 2014 I...

... and Anavatan: Father State, Motherland and the Birth of the Turkish Republic. Presented at American Ethnological Society meetings, Charleston, NC, March 1991. Lutz , Catherine . 1990 The Erasure of Women's Writing in Sociocultural Anthropology. American Ethnologist 17 ( 4 ): 611 -627. Pateman...

... racializing representations and erasures; multiple “regimes of mobility” (Glick Schiller and Salazar 2013 ); fragmentations of citizenship; forms of labor extraction; and resistance (Esposito et al. 2020 ), conducting fieldwork also in the places of origin of those Eastern European workers whom many...

.... 595 Public Culture way, on that space where the real meets its speculative, aggressive counterpart. Each set references a specific kind of erasure, whose spectral presence in turn haunts the new city. In turning to images, I follow Ackbar Abbas’s...

... denial of the Armenian genocide ( Erbal and Suciyan 2011) but also erasures such as the disavowal of the urgency of contemporary rights claims regarding civil rights ( Kurban 2003; Yeğen 2009; cf. Kadıoğlu 2008) , religious freedom ( Erman and Erdemir 2005; Özgül 2014) , property ( Akçam and Kurt...

...” that are “ ‘renewed’ and ‘recreated’ in ordinary phenomena by nonnative, nonstate actors, in ways that do not necessarily affirm settlement as an explicit, conscious set of imperatives/initiatives or coordinate with each other as a self-identical program.” Such mechanisms of erasure are necessary precisely...

... an indictment of avowed universalities premised on black absence. If, that is, blackness is part of social reality’s repertoire, then its exclusion requires explanation. The reassertion of the universality of its formal exclusion would in effect be a legitimation of erasure; identifying the illegitimacy...

... to simultaneously erase the city’s bilingual identity and to daily remind the Palestinian residents that they are no longer welcome in the place they think of as home. This effort materialized in the Hebraization of formerly Arabic spaces through both the erasure of the Arabic and its replacement with an invented...

... of narrative truth; but the battle against communal histories con- tinued to determine the way new histories were framed. In this essay I will look at the way this battle has shaped the agendas of secular histories — its terms of refer- ence, its silences and erasures, its tropes of analyses, its fears...

...(Eylül/September). Karpat, K. 1985 . Ottoman population 1830–1914: Demographic and social characteristics . Madison:University of Wisconsin Press. Klein, Norman M. 1998 . The history of forgetting: Los Angeles and the erasure of memory . London:Verso. Pred, Allan. 1995 . Recognizing...

... that the erasure of Islam and violence against women and the centralization of secularism, democracy, and gender equality in the Sahrawi official discourse emerge as discursive strategies invoked to position the Sahrawis as “the ideal refugees” precisely as a means to secure both essential humanitarian assistance...

... by the same actress. There is a triple erasure of identity in Henry’s murders: first, the elision of the victim’s particular identity by random selection; second, the literal “rubbing out” of the victim’s life; and third, the evacuation of the role...

... as it disappears from the public space of consumerist advertising and messaging, fol- lowing Mazzarella’s analysis (2010: 21) of the erasure of the “profoundly corporeal basis of Gandhi’s understanding of publicity and efficacious mass communication...

..., the world’s poor are still at the bottom of the pyramid, but this time they are the fortune that can be mined, not the workers whose labor feeds all. In the age of poverty, it is this erasure of labor and exploitation that enables the renewal...

... of immortality. For this promise of redemption to be fulfilled, a dissolute existence (tradition and custom) must be abandoned. Conversion to revealed truth entails, in turn, a genuine work on the self (travail sur soi), the erasure of any distinct...

... mother for having a same-sex relation and has to marry her lover’s brother. Nour’s story can’t be found in an archive, since the Ottoman courts considered these offenses matters to be dealt with at home, but Maya and I resisted the idea that the absence of legal cases would mean the erasure of queer...

... the lines of erasure to reveal how inversion, metonymy, and projection transmit imperial logics across contexts and centuries. The nickname of nineteenth-century Lakota Ogalala leader Tasunke Witco, who fought the United States, becomes a call sign used while firing on Iraqi civilians from a Boeing AH-64...

... are now under erasure. In the meantime, the tyranny that concerns Mbembe appears intimate in- deed as events like Jembul parades, provocative as they may be, provoke only through deferral, and election campaigns counter ekses with sukses, habitually. But recurrent Indonesian recollections...