.... The Liberal Civil Subject and the Social in Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy Mary Poovey H arnessed to so many theoretical paradigms, “the social” is a phrase that no H longer...

... is the author of “Making Affect Safe for Democracy? On Constitutional Patriotism,” Political Theory (February 2000), and Bound by Recognition (forthcoming). Introduction: Violence, Redemption, and the Liberal...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay probes discourses of millennial governance in current late liberal governance and contemporary critical theory. It examines a set of dilemmas for progressive critics when they mobilize discourses of sacrifice and sacrificial love against the millennial imaginary...

... national self-determination efforts and a vibrant transnational politics of what was then termed “gay liberation,” this article contributes to a queering of Caribbean history and to a decentering of the West in global histories of sexuality. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 activism...

...Arthur Mason Duke University Press 2007 The Rise of Consultant Forecasting in Liberalized Natural Gas Markets Arthur Mason Natural gas forecasting has evolved into a lucrative enter- prise in the wake of U.S...

... in the National Liberation Front Duy Lap Nguyen Nothing is more important than independence and freedom.  — Ho Chi Minh Economy of time, to this all economy ultimately reduces itself...

...: Cultural Mediation in a Contemporary Liberation Struggle Ken Seigneurie Colonialism is also a psychological state rooted in earlier forms of social consciousness in both the colonizers...

....” Public Culture 7 , no. 3 : 559 -592. Mehta , Uday . 1997. “Liberal Strategies of Exclusion.” In Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World , edited by Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler. Berkeley: University of California Press. Mehta , Uday . Frothcoming...

... the university, and (2) provides intellectual and methodological interventions in contemporary organizational manifestations of racialized minority difference — namely, (neo)liberal multicultural formations of diversity in the US academy. The essay offers case studies of “diversity” and/or “decolonizing” work...

...Cotten Seiler How will the car affect China, that once “immobile empire”? US media accounts put tremendous faith in automobility as a maker of liberal political subjects as China undergoes its postsocialist transformation. But is the type of freedom offered by automobilized modernity necessarily...

...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...

...Sareeta Amrute This article discusses violence against women in cars in India, including the recent high-profile Delhi rape case, arguing that these cases should be set in the context of economic liberalization. The dynamic between women and their drivers should be understood as a labor...

... co-opted after the end of apartheid as a means of retaining privilege, it is necessary to revisit varied understandings and debates inside the liberation movement on race and nonracialism to counteract this co-option and as a commitment to nonracialism not as state of being but as politics...

...Ritu Birla Abstract This essay explores the financialization of liberal governmentality through questions posed by cryptocurrency, especially in its relationship with the monetary coding of the globe since Bretton Woods. Contemporary Global South deployments of crypto foreground political...

... disregard for the liberal norm of formal equality and embrace of a model of demographic representation. In this article, the author takes up the tensions between these different approaches to democracy and their implications for addressing historical inequalities. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press...

... of equality and other conventional secular-liberal politics? The claims that Muslim French make to France, and the grounding of those claims in the paradigm of citizenship, were strikingly displayed during a December 2003 demonstration against the then-proposed law banning headscarves in public schools...

... and the public activism of many whose forms of political communication are usually ignored, or even denounced as passive. But a more generous definition of the political, one that does not presume liberal democracy as its natural setting or emancipation as its aim, can show how even compliance and personal...

... provides the best strategy for liberation. Fewer still have solicited insight from populations that—instead of mere cowardice or sheer apathy—might possess a social critique that could provide the basis for a reinvigorated post–civil rights political project. In the spirit of developing the critical stance...

... of display marked the simultaneous emergence of a newly liberating politics of attention and a newly constraining mode of social control—both of which remain key features of our contemporary landscape. This essay grew out of my participation in two communities: the University of California Humanities...