... Series “My Countrymen” Wu Hung E Emily Post on Etiquette summarizes a basic rule for civilized behavior: Q: How do you behave around disabled...

...Rihan Yeh A series of ethnographic examples, all related to a demonstration at the International Port of Entry connecting Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego, California, show the importance for Tijuana's public sphere of the distinction between documented and undocumented status vis-à-vis the United...

...Poornima Paidipaty Poornima Paidipaty interviews the artist Pallavi Govindnathan on two recent series, Acerbic Drips and Reconstruction , which chronicle the social, psychic, and physical effects of acid attacks on young women in Bangladesh. This conversation explores questions of masculinity...

... to the popular will. Recent political events in Turkey present a dramatic contrast to this historically established antagonism between secularization and populist politics. In the spring of 2007 a series of mass demonstrations, rallied in the name of secularism and against the elected Islamist regime, were...

... but were rather “forced out” or “blown out” from the buildings. This article explores the phenomena of jumping and falling and questions why it was impossible to commit suicide on September 11. Through an analysis of Richard Drew’s photograph The Falling Man , visual artist Paul Chan’s series The 7 Lights...

... military campaign. It begins with the tragedy of translation as an elegiac matter of the heart closing, and it attempts to understand the metaphor of closure alongside that of strangeness and (un)translatability in a series of encounters that take us into the heart of death-dealing and wartime...

...Claire Beckett; Nuit Banai This essay examines Claire Beckett’s Simulating Iraq (2007–9), a series of large-format color photographs that documents army personnel and civilian workers training American troops for military deployment by staging the theater of operations awaiting them. At the heart...

... future for a distinct field of urban theory in a world in which urbanization has been generalized onto a planetary scale? This article reflects on this state of affairs and outlines a series of theses intended to reinvigorate the theoretical framework of urban studies in relation to emergent forms...

...Teresa P. R. Caldeira A series of interventions by young men are transforming public spaces in São Paulo, Brazil, and articulating anew the profound social inequalities that have always marked them. The new urban practices include graffiti, pixação (São Paulo’s style of tagging), and new modes...

..., ed. 2000. Posthumanism. Readers in Cultural Criticism Series. New York: Palgrave. Barker, Clive, and Maggie B. Gale, eds. 2000. British Theatre between the Wars, 1918–1939. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre Series. Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press. Barlet, Olivier. 2000. African...

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..., mainly women but also some men and children, and collected case studies leading to series of paintings called Acerbic Drips and Reconstruction and a book titled Corrode. The book tells in detail the stories of young victims and examines...

...? The Space of the Triptych To the puzzlement of some of his Chinese admirers who know him as the most outstanding realist painter of his generation and who remember his haunting series of images from Tibet, Danqing has done no painting...

... of 1991. What motivates this linkage across media and genres? Where might a journal that explores the politics and aesthetics of transnational cultural flows share common concerns with a commercial recording of “tribal” mu- sic published in a series called “The World?” Two responses...