...-military recreational programs, the article explores new concepts of humanism and global order being produced and disseminated as a praxis of persistent war. 2015 anthropology of war Comprehensive Soldier Fitness humanism resilience US Army Over the past four decades, and particularly since...

...Neni Panourgiá Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Desert Islands: Ransom of Humanity Neni Panourgiá Modern Greece has had a rather “idiosyncratic history,” as the first Greek Nobel laureate...

... problem of race to the problematic of racism is, I believe, representative of a more general problem in the writing of a history of the humanities. Fou- cault’s distinction between sex and sexuality, which results in rethinking the historical as genealogy and disposilg, is a relevant precursor...

....” Roger Casement’s Global English: From Human Rights to the Homoerotic Patrick Mullen One of the most controversial figures of the Irish nationalist pantheon, Roger O Casement retains his allure and glamour nearly...

... Human Rights: A Response to Joseph Massad Arno Schmitt J oseph Massad’s article “Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the J Arab World” (Public Culture 14 [spring 2002]: 361–85) is a strange concoc- tion. Although ostensibly...

... of politics , edited by David Nugent and Joan Vincent. London: Blackwell. Höijer, Birgitta. 2004 . The discourse of global compassion: The audience and media reporting of human suffering. Media, Culture and Society 26 : 513 –31. Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. 1999 . Transnational advocacy...

...Tobias Kelly The category of conscience has played a key role in the history of human rights. However, since a high point in the decades after the Second World War, much of the human rights movement appears to have become relatively less interested in the issue. Instead, claims of conscience have...

... of financial and other value from life itself. Visiting the US-Mexico and Euro-African borders in turn, it considers biotechnologies for surveillance and detection; detention and “warehousing”; and risk strategies for deterring migration, in each case delving into the political economy of human vitality...

...Kate Nash In this article the author explores what feature-length films of the kind that are shown in human rights film festivals contribute to human rights culture. Analyzing films that feature victims (including, in some detail, Sonita ) and perpetrators (notably, The Act of Killing ), the author...

...Bruce Robbins Copyright © 1997 by The University of Chicago 1997 Sad Stories in the International Public Sphere: Richard Rorty on Culture and Human Rights Bruce Robbins 1n 1994...

...Pheng Cheah Copyright © 1997 by The University of Chicago 1997 Posit(ion)ing Human Rights in the Current Global Conjuncture Pheng Cheah 1n the current conjuncture of global capitalism, the deployment...

...Meaghan Morris; Iain McCalman Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Public Culture and Humanities Research in Australia: A Report Meaghan Morris and Iain McCalman The following essay was written...

...Michel Feher Human capital is to neoliberalism what Marx's free worker was to liberal capitalism, that is, the subjective formation at once presupposed and targeted by neoliberal technologies of government. According to this thesis, the neoliberal condition involves investors in their own human...

... offers potential flightlines toward a post-property future—one in which housing is positioned as a basic human right—but also a generative critique of the home as a site of racialized and gendered subject formation. Indeed, through their work, the reconception of kinship formation and territorial...

...Jacob G. Foster Abstract This article argues that contemporary research practices in artificial intelligence will produce AI technologies incompatible with human flourishing, social complexity, or vibrant politics. Adopting James Scott's anarchist squint, it instead proposes a vision of AI...

...Andrew Herscher In the early 2000s, human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) began to avail themselves of newly commercialized satellite imagery in their advocacy efforts. In human rights contexts, satellite imaging vastly extends capacities to detect and respond to abuses of human rights...

...Kenny Cupers This article examines theories of human territoriality and their historical role in the demise of public housing in Western Europe and North America between the 1960s and the 1980s. The neglect and privatization of the public housing stock and the withdrawal of the state in direct...

... or victimized suffering, Palestinian electro- dabke bands evoke both localized sentiments of national pride in refashioned cosmopolitan folklore and international political solidarity based on human similarity and the shared experience of joy. This dual message is further communicated through the centrality...