...Deepa Kumar This article examines “security rituals,” routinized and repetitive performances of security practices, and their role in reproducing US nationalism and militarism. It argues that the security ritual as a form emerges out of the Cold War. Its revival in the war on terror era, which has...

...Steven Feld Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Cultural Studies 1991 Collective Conversations 149 Twenty-nine Days into the War: War Journal Notes Steven Feld CHRISTMAS WEEK, 19% In...

...Roland Marchal This article takes issue with a number of key representations of the Darfur and Chad crises. It argues that the conflict in Darfur is to some extent the continuation of the civil war in Chad, not the opposite; the failure to acknowledge the regional dimensions of these two crises is...

...-military recreational programs, the article explores new concepts of humanism and global order being produced and disseminated as a praxis of persistent war. 2015 anthropology of war Comprehensive Soldier Fitness humanism resilience US Army Over the past four decades, and particularly since 2001...

...María Victoria Uribe This article describes the complexity of transitional justice in Colombia since the approval of Law 975, known as the “Justice and Peace Law,” and the demobilization of the United Autodefenses of Colombia in 2005. In the middle of the open war between the Revolutionary Armed...

...Figure 22 War Workers’ Ideas . Jury Votes on War Workers’ Ideas That Save Man-Hours and Critical Materials . Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer. Farm Security Administration–OWI, 1942, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, call no. LC-USE6-D-009370 [P&P]. Figure 22. War Workers...

... myth reveals how, in declaring war on terrorism, we have likewise waged a shadow war against the projections of collective paranoia. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Phantom of the Forever War: Fazul Abdullah Muhammad and the...

...Robert Stam Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 MOHLEING flCllONs: TWGULF WAR, TWMWlA AND TWRmLlITMaT Of TWSPCCTATOR For many of us, the Persian Gulf War was less a “victory” to be “celebrated” than a catastrophe to be mourned, a disaster not...

...Victor J. Caldarola Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 TIM€ AND TWT€l€VlSlON WAR It is a disturbing irony that the global village was finally achieved during a time of terror. Television msformed the Persian Gulf War into a cultural event of extraordinary...

...Nouri Gana Theodor W. Adorno's by now infamous dictum that “to write lyric poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” still weighs heavily on various modern and contemporary representations of war and violence, especially in the Arab world, where the legacy of the Holocaust, entangled with differing or...

... war, deci- sions are being made on all of these fronts without public attention. Israeli civilians are now on the frontline in a country that has treated its borders (and not its centers) as its war zones, and Israel has momentarily recuperated its reputation in the international community...

...-invaders of Lebanon, occupiers of foreign territory, torturers and killers of children. A question for the future: if there is a war, what further crimes are they going to conceal under its cruelties and confusions? And a question for the present: here in my country and my city, among Jews like...

... war in some other part of the world- Panama, for example-where the Western image of the place has not de- pended on stereotypes of women’s oppression? GCS: At one point, CBS followed the African-American man whose wife- I mean all kinds of radical issues are being used there-the black man...

... Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Cultural Studies 1991 War Miscellany A Tragic Convergence* Edward W. Said Many Americans and Arabs, as well as Americans of Arab origin, are watching in si- lence and with almost inexpressible feelings of apprehension the...

... Ottoman authorities and it appeared in Baghdad in 1816.l In Algeria, the Arabic-language bi-weekly, Al-Mubmhir, was established in 1847 and it was controlled by the French colonial administration. In 1963 the ruling group that defeated the French in Algeria’s war of independence placed all...

... Press. Cooper , George , and Gavan Daws. 1985 . Land and Power in Hawaii: The Democratic Years . Honolulu: Benchmark Books. Dower , John . 1986 . War without Mercy. New York: Pantheon Books. France , Peter . 1969 . The Charter of the Land . Melbourne: Oxford University Press...

... Modern Art, without whose help my research would not have been possible; and the anonymous readers for Public Culture , whose insights have substantially sharpened the piece. VISUAL CULTURE The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America...

...Liam Kennedy As perpetual wars of terror and securitization dislocate relations between domestic and foreign affairs, visual news media are shaping perceptions of the forms of violence—shock and awe, collateral damage—that attend these wars. This essay considers the role that photography is...