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... wake work as a method for living with the unmournable. Perhaps it’s easier to think about the violence of losing one’s mother than it is to think about the violence of finding her again. Or in Colin’s case, of her finding you. In the darkness of my bedroom, my tears are salty, like seawater...

... of the international development project will survive in the wake of American military withdrawal from the country. 2014 This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 201214092. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material...

... the reach of the policeman’s club or bullet, without losing sight of the bodies left in those weapons’ wake. The work this essay seeks to do in mining Baldwin’s interrogations of law, police, and prisons is and has been the work of the field of Black studies at large for decades. This brief initial...

...Keller Easterling Abstract In the wake of civil rights struggles, a rural area in Southwest Georgia became a global stage for rehearsing some of the world's most provocative experiments with community and land tenure. An interracial intentional community, a Nation of Islam farm, the first community...

...). In the most powerful moments these writers complicate the tendency to pathologize black matriarchal families or heteronormative kinship relations. In the disordered time of loss, in the “wake work” of public speaking, in tracing what is required merely to survive, these memoirs become a way of understanding...

... for her grief. These instances of grief work — wake work ( Sharpe 2016 ), widowing ( Nash 2016 ) — are brilliantly recast as political labor by Ruth Feldstein (2000 : 290), whose recharacterization of the work of black motherhood as “realizing the radical potential of traditional roles” provides a map...

... major US political parties have been focused on somehow rehabilitating neoliberalism rather than breaking with it. In the wake of Trump’s inauguration, this attempt to restore neoliberalism has reached farcical levels, as both parties are seduced by conspiracy theories that implicitly concede...

... engage the genealogies of healthy and pathogenic polities in the wake of cosmopolitan calamities: the racist eugenics of the early twentieth century and the contemporary HIV/AIDS pandemic. Edward LiPuma and Thomas Koelble, Danny Hoffman...

... of neoimperialism’s indirect rule of its client states. None- theless, as an empire it advances under a particular sign of conquest, one which vanquishes all in its wake, translating all manner of issues, questions and prob- lems into its peculiar discursive terms. That sign is “rights,” the triumphal prog...

... to announce a special issue entitled Fallout that will grapple with recent and long-term global-cultural and -political alliances and realignments arising from the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Penta- gon in September 2001. In the wake...

... ). First, agencies utilize juried award competitions to signal creative achievement and mitigate other measures of accountability; part of this process includes the continuous diversification of award categories that enable agencies to remove their work from the more rigid evaluative criteria of sales...

... of the common weal—the potential for coercion, cruelty, outrage, disorder, liberal moral and political theory, see David P. Gauthier, Morals by Agreement (Oxford: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1986), especially 158–65. Gauthier marries a reading of Hobbes to work...

... focus on memory and temporality also stands in stark contrast to so much other recent innovative work on categories of space, maps, geographies, borders, trade routes, migrations, displacements, and diasporas in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies. Indeed, not so long ago...

... is “often the subject both of open discussion at the wake and of private gossip and dark insinuation after leaving it” (p. 232). Here, gossip participates in the work of mourning. Embalm- ing the corpse by way of chemical sanitation and cosmetic...

... of a renaissance with the molecularization of the physiology of sleeping and waking ( Wolf-Meyer 2012 ; Cambrosio and Keating 1983 ). The image it has generated is of a body filled with molecular clocks. We do not generally think about what our genes are doing while we’re sleeping, but it is estimated that 10...

... Figure 3 “I am here at Occupy Wall Street to fight against corporate greed. To raise my voice in unity for the 99% of America, the working class. The 1% of corporations aren’t people, the 99% are the people. I am here to fight for true democracy. I am here to fight peacefully in solidarity...

... iii Public Culture “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp . . . with . . . a Whole Lot of Bitches Jumpin’ Ship”: Navigating Black Politics in the Wake of Katrina  343 Michael Ralph The Wrench and the Ratchet: Cultural Mediation...

... incapacitation of authoritative traditions such as religion, science, and law. ADVANCE PUBLICATION The Bewitched City: Psychopolitics in the Wake of the Social MILAD ODABAEI The end of a tradition does not necessarily mean that traditional concepts have lost their power over the minds of men. On the contrary...

... social welfare programs — what can be called “population security.” Population security aims to foster the health and well-being of human beings understood as members of a national popula- tion. It works to collectivize individual risk...

..., made possible by the lack of wakefulness in the figure on the tiger’s back. “So long as he doesn’t wake up he’ll be all right” is Mak’s com- ment on this work, but can sleepwalking really be a positive thing, even if it does shield us from realities?8 Since the somnambulist as well...