.... nuclear weapons since 1940 . Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. U.S. Department of Defense. 2002 . Nuclear posture review . www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/policy/dod/npr.html . The Billboard Campaign: The Los Alamos Study...

....” In Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies , edited by Cary Nelson and Dilip Gaonkar. New York: Routledge. Appadurai , Arjun . 1996b. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Barlow , Tani E. 1995. Introduction. positions...

...Brian T. Edwards Duke University Press 2007 doxa at large American Studies in Tehran Brian T. Edwards It’s Friday in February in downtown Tehran. I’m taking advantage...

...Jean-François Bayart It is misguided to imagine that French researchers and French universities are unaware of postcolonial studies. In reality, forms close to this school of thought emerged very early in the French university context, but they were obliged to take other academic traditions...

...Ranjana Khanna The essay responds to attacks and defenses of postcolonial studies by Jean-François Bayart, Achille Mbembe, and Ann Laura Stoler, drawing attention to the limited understanding of difference and subjectivity in all essays. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 All...

...: On Koolhaas and Film Studies James Tweedie The Structures of Globalization During our current age of globalization the idea of the city is undergoing a profound transformation, with the introduction of multi- ple...

... industry, Latin American and Mexican telenovelas, the infant potentials of the personal computer, and the beginnings of the market for rental films were all new subjects for global cultural studies, which until then had been largely preoccupied with literature, and to a lesser extent, with cinema...

...Nicole Starosielski Abstract This article poses the question: what are the ends of media studies? It discusses a turn to “nature” and the elements that has pushed media studies beyond its traditional objects and subjects. While the conceptualization of environments and bodies as communicative...

... studies in the Ph.D. in Disability Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They are the authors of Narrative Prosthesis:Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (2000). Bragg, Lois. 1997 . From the mute god to the lesser god: Disability in medieval Celtic and Old Norse...

...Janet Roitman Over the past years, France has been rocked not only by violent demonstrations in the banlieues (city outskirts) but also by raging debates regarding the place of “postcolonial studies” in the French archive and in current scholarship. The dispute over postcolonial studies...

...Sandrine Bertaux What is at issue in the three essays is the reception of postcolonial studies in France, denoting for Jean-François Bayart an “academic carnival,” revealing for Ann Laura Stoler France's “colonial aphasia,” and representing for Achille Mbembe, the way out of its “imperial winter...

... debates in the United States, the United Kingdom, and regions across the Southern Hemisphere (South America, Australia, New Zealand, the Indian subcontinent, and South Africa). From its inception, postcolonial studies has been interpreted in extremely diverse ways; over time, it has spawned robust waves...

... in social thought. This essay foregrounds such a conversation across such varying fields as global prison studies, the history of slavery, and the sociology of debt to provoke a common political project that can extend beyond the limits of the case study. References Agamben Giorgio . 1998...

...Lewis R. Gordon Though black aesthetic production has received much study, little attention has been paid to the challenge of constructing black aesthetics proper. In addition to articulating what aesthetics is as a field of inquiry, such a task also includes the problem of whether aesthetics has...

...Joseph Blankholm This article bridges the gap between the study of religion-making secularism and the study of secular people by analyzing three recent lawsuits filed by secular activists in the United States. Each suit asks the courts to understand nonbelievers in a different way: one group...

...Stephen Best Walter Ong published Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word in 1982, synthesizing his career-long concern with the impact of the shift from orality to literacy on various cultures. Scholars of African American literary and cultural studies were coming to redefine...

...Jie Li This essay explores the politics of remembering the Chinese Cultural Revolution through a study of two banned documentaries by Hu Jie that have circulated widely in cyberspace: Though I Am Gone (2006) and In Search of Lin Zhao's Soul (2004). Contextualizing them in discourses on the (still...

...S. Lochlann Jain This essay analyzes the subject positioning demanded by randomized control trials (RCT). Taking seriously the fact that people in late-stage cancer treatments will die, even if one arm of the study receives a “successful” treatment, Jain argues that the RCT framework carries...