...Liz Koslov Retreat, or relocating people and unbuilding land in places vulnerable to flooding and sea level rise, remains on the fringes of conversations about climate change adaptation. Yet already people throughout the world are moving away from the water en masse. Many more want to move but lack...

... located at a site that is starkly isolated from the official commemora- tive site, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. This essay explores the controversy that erupted in 1990 over the city’s plan to relocate the Korean memorial within the Peace Park. The memory practices revolving around the Korean...

..., a nationwide program set up by the central government in a bold effort to upgrade the whole of Chinese society to a level of “moderate prosperity” ( xiaokang ) by 2020. In Guizhou, the scheme aims to “shift poverty nests” and “pull out poverty roots,” as policy documents have it, through the relocation...

... to relocate during the war due to confessional fighting or Israeli shelling and now relocating once again to previously occupied areas. what pictures cross our paths what paths our pictures. w/Abeer’sneighbour’s living room/sitting room, near ’Cola’/Corniche el Mazra, West Beirut...

... and plans for urban development. In 2013 I returned to Bogotá to find out more about this surge in climate change politics. A number of people I spoke with discussed Petro’s concern for the risks associated with extreme weather events and his support for the relocation of families living in “zones...

... civilian presence on the ground effective control of Palestinian land could not be secured. Thus, alongside efforts to empty the land of its Palestinian inhabitants, Jewish civilians were relocated to the land seized from the indigenous population and deployed within the broader architecture of control...

... to a relocation camp on the withered, arid plain of central Idaho. Many families left behind whatever they couldn’t carry or sell in the basement of the Panama Hotel: trunks, furniture, clothes, dishes, family portraits, fishing poles, ironing boards, incomplete address books, tool chests (in one...

... and relocation were conditions for the capital’s moderniza- tion. In actuality, these conditions brought about a growing alienation between the city and its residents: they no longer belonged to one another. A major subject...

.... Friedman, John. 2002. The Prospect of Cities. Minneapolis: University of Min- nesota Press. Ghannam, Farha. 2002. Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Poli- tics of Identity in a Global Cairo. Berkeley: University of California...

... entire popu- 522 lation was relocated to a site on the Klipspruit River outside the city limits, close Reframing Township to where Kliptown now lies. The former mixed, slum-yard population—destabi- Space lizing to notions of fixed identity and status, of modernity...

... housing projects, into which Mumbai's government has relocated thousands of households facing eviction due to expanding transportation networks, constitute one such example of involuntary densification. With people relocated from far-flung corners of the city to new enclaves, the implicit social compact...

...- tal P. It also sought to recognize the relocation of the nation in relation to changes in the circulation and form of global capital. Thus the history of Public Culture consists of these and other conjunctures and fragments. It is a nonlinear...

..., this has been a land of destitute emigration towards the northern cities of Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier, and Europe. Opportunity, chance, and timing made Italy the migrants’ first choice for relocation. The earliest images of immigrants to Italy...

...,” in Relocating Postcolonialism, ed. David Theo Goldberg and Ato Quayson (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 2002), 17. 21. The strongest expression of this position comes from Alain Badiou, “Does the Other Exist?” in his Ethics, 18 – 29...

... with American society makes us realize that, to a certain extent, it is what makes America an America. For both Americans and foreigners, Disneyland is a sacred place which cannot be relocated to any Ibid.39. 16 Public Culture other site. As we cannot...

... Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Culture Studies 1991 REPOhistory New York REPOhistory is a collective of artists, writers, and teachers based in New York City. Our purpose is to retrieve and relocate absent historical narratives at specific sites throughout...

..., 1945-1 989. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993). Bloom, Clive, ed. Creepers:British Horror and Fantasy in the Twentieth Century. (Boulder: Pluto Press, 1993). Blundell, Valda, et al., ed. Relocating Cultural Studies: Developments in Theory and Research. (New York: Routledge...

... of free- market reform under Pinochet; Cuba’s special period management of relocation in the world economy; and postunifcation Germany’s politics of nostalgia. Luis Cárcamo-Huechante provides a close study of the way in which neoliberal...

.... The Metropolitan Council of Johannesburg has established ward committees to try to make politics responsive to local needs and styles. But as governance is relocated to the particularities of discrete places, the responsibility of citizens to embody...

... labor is prominent, and these people seem to have lost out in the last cou- ple of decades. But most of the standard approaches suggest that their wages should have risen with trade and relocation. This is because in the kinds of indus...