... and the conventions of Chinese cartography. These maps do much more than celebrate the extent of Chinese sovereignty; they also mourn the loss of national territories through a cartography of national humiliation. The goal of this essay is to shift our attention from the diplomatic issues of international borders...

..., but a feature of the landscape itself — a permanent, radical sense of immobility and insecurity. The daily pursuit of survival under the shadow of the “war on terror” compels road-transport workers to participate in the corrupt, coercive, and humiliating system they denounce. References Abrahams Rita...

... ludicrous and humiliating fashion to turn once earnest and serious projects in feel‐bad dramas of inescapable failure. As such, this form of politics casts a renewed light on the aesthetic and affective dimensions of citizen–state struggles, especially among those that persist in confronting failures...

... to the politics of national humiliation, outlined by William A. Cal­ lahan, as a useful prelude to thought about civil strife in Lebanon. This issue of Public Culture also offers a juxtaposition of works on image, nation, circulation, and narration. Beatriz Jaguaribe and Maurício Lissovsky’s study of pho­...

... women through their gaze, men are lured and captured by the sight of women and, in the words of one writer, they are thereby “humiliated” and made “abject” by women-a situation from which men draw pleasure (Mahmudi 1981: 117). Such a masochistic effect of the gaze on its male owner...

..., that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploita- tion, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation...

... to look for that city. It was only now that I could begin to acknowledge the humiliation that the taxi driver had caused me when he had cheated me; the humiliation I had felt at not being able to tip the Negro in the hotel. I remembered the name of the hotel: the Wellington. I remembered its...

... . “ The Return of the Evidencer’s Eye: Rhetoric and the Visual Technologies of Proof .” Griffith Law Review 8 , no. 1 : 86 – 101 . Harwell Drew . 2018 . “ Fake-Porn Videos are Being Used to Harass and Humiliate Women .” Washington Post , December 30 . www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018...

... are of interest only to the extent that they make manifest relations of superiority” (72). One is struck by the banality of symbolic analysis in this exercise. From an article in a Kenyan newspaper, Mbembe reports the plight of a schoolteacher who is publicly humiliated by a District Commissioner...

... of being respected as “mother earth,” Draupadi is humiliated. Her disrobing thus indexes what Chopra described as “the extent to which the rot has seeped into her society.” Indeed, he and his colleagues conceived of Draupadi not just as an index of the “state of Indian society” but, more...

... normalizing the situation rather than perceiv- “Comes a Time We ing it as the product of an inviable political framework, one in which the Pales- Are All Enthusiasm” tinians have continued to experience a sense of being assaulted (the continued expansion of settlements, people arrested or humiliated, etc...

... humiliation she is meek, docile and usually in a sari. Once she becomes the avenger she sheds femininity and the sari. She becomes a latter-day black leather Kali. In most of these films she changes into black leather trousers and a jacket before she is handed the whip or the gun. And when she...

... of Turkey’s most recent attempted coup, against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a conflict that pitted many civilians and civil servants against insurgents from the armed forces, often in very public displays of humiliation after the coup was put down. But, as Arjomand writes, for the community being depicted...

... and at the station; and legal, with the initial accusation of insulting an officer and resisting arrest. It also often includes a moral dimension, via the debasement and humiliation of the individual arrested. My assertion undoubtedly goes against commonsense, according to which such acts are pure brutalization...

... than 80 years, of humiliation and disgrace, its sons killed and their blood spilled, its sanctities desecrated.” Each of these word choices might be defended on its own, but as a whole this is not an example of flowery rhetoric, never mind eloquence. Instead, it is a piece of gobbledygook...

...: their religion was under threat; their culture was being undermined, their women were being dishonored, and their men were being humiliated. It was a time of pil- lage and rape, intolerance and violence. The figure of the Muslim came to person- ify...

...: their “infantile citizenship” operates the way Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge (1992) predict it would, eliciting scorn and cynicism from “knowing” adults who try to humiliate them and admiration from these same adults, who can remember with nostalgia the time that they were ”unknowing” and thus believed...

... such as Chamar and Dom as insult- ing epithets to humiliate the addressee, an act that is now a cognizable offense under Indian law, speaks of the arrogance of power; of groups that hold them- 331 Public Culture selves above the law...

... labor conditions designed to dehumanize and humiliate (Mankekar and Gupta 2016 : 24). In other words, sweepers continually make and remake their own world, together. This shared, affective worldmaking is rooted in workplace solidarity, a phenomenon like “kinship” that might, in the words of Tiffany...

... “economic miracles,” grafting the hopes of that period — hopes that had been degraded, humiliated, and violently obliterated by the dictatorships of the 1970s and in the economic crises of the 1980s and 1990s — onto the emerg- ing new regimes...