... to collective anxieties over the terms of everyday survival and the difficulty of determining just who is in charge. This essay is an ethnography of extorted life, mapping the expanding geographies of extortion in postwar Guatemala to illuminate how this cold-blooded business organizes life at the...

... California Press . Fassin Didier . 2007 . Humanitarianism as a politics of life . Public Culture 19 , no. 1 : 499 – 520 . ———. 2009 . Another politics of life is possible . Theory, Culture and Society 26 , no. 1 : 44 – 60 . Fassin Didier Mariella Pandolfi , eds. 2010...

... 13 ( 3 ): 114 -31. Wright , Melissa W. Forthcoming. Desire and the prosthetics of supervision. Cultural Anthropology . The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras Melissa W. Wright...

... us now.” Outside Moscow, the world of plenitude that many hope to find in the post-Soviet era is perhaps no more in evidence than in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Long celebrated by local elites as a center of cosmopolitan life in the Caucasus region, the city has undergone a stunning amount of...

... could be more precarious, more uncertain, than such a city, where systems of sustenance and livelihood hang by a thread and the simplest journey might send one plummeting into the void? But here’s the twist: “Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia’s inhabitants is less uncertain than in other...

... completing a book titled The Private Life of Public Culture . Anya E. Liftig is a freelance photographer for the New York Times . Her work has been widely published. She grew up in suburban New York and East Kentucky. Beller, Jonathan. 1994 . Cinema, capital of the twentieth century. Postmodern Culture...

..., autobiographical writings, translated by Edmund Jephcott. New York: Schocken Books. Berlant, Lauren. 1997. The queen of America goes to Washington City: Essays on sex and citizenship. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Biehl, João. 2001. Vita: Life in a zone of social abandonment. Social Text, no. 68: 131...

...Didier Fassin Duke University Press 2007 Translated by Rachel Gomme POLITICS OF LIFE Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life Didier Fassin Finally, this idea of man’s sacredness gives grounds for reflection...

...Bain Attwood; Dipesh Chakrabarty; Claudio Lomnitz Duke University Press 2008 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. guest editors’ letter The Public Life of History Bain...

...Dipesh Chakrabarty Duke University Press 2008 The Public Life of History: An Argument out of India Dipesh Chakrabarty I should explain at the outset that by the expression “public life of history,” I do not refer to the role that...

...Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Editor’s Letter: Whose Fears? Which Life? What Security? Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar These are difficult times, often characterized as times of fear. The...

...Rosalind C. Morris Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 spirit of capitalism Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in South Africa’s Age of AIDS Rosalind...

... reframed conception of science, might involve as practiced in the lab, the classroom, and social life more generally. When C. P. Snow (1998) gave his 1959 lecture on “the two cultures” of the sciences and the humanities, he hardly could have predicted the “marketplace” under which higher education would...

... life narrative in which the protagonist, often the narrator, who is at first socially and psychologically alienated becomes “incorporated” into society. That is to say, the heroine (the protagonist of the postcolonial novel is very often a woman) becomes socialized into the conventions of her society...

...Elsa Barkley Brown Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to...

...Faisal Devji Unlike the pacifists and humanitarians with whom he is routinely associated, Gandhi was critical of human rights as a legal and political project. Indeed, he attributed modern violence precisely to the fact that life had become an absolute value, something that could therefore be...

... course of his life has been shaped in no small part by his own decisions. This is precisely because circumstances have unmoored him from the sorts of firm and enduring institutions that shape human trajectories. Herein lies the paradox: a forced migrant’s life is often radically decisional. The argument...