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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 103–108.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Hanaa Malallah Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 Sophisticated Ways in the
Destruction of an Ancient City
Hanaa Malallah
Curatorial Note
Since the 1970s the art of Hanaa Malallah has borne witness to the
ongoing catastrophes that have befallen Baghdad. The most recent...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 521–538.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Spencer Adams As suggested in the opening of this review, the themes and problems of the novel mirror especially closely the concerns of Extreme Cities , Ashley Dawson’s account of urban conflict and catastrophic climate change. Dawson, an urbanist and postcolonial specialist at the City...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Francesco Crocco Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 Contesting the Manufactured Crisis of
Public Higher Education at CUNY
francesco crocco
Chanting “Education is a right! Fight! Fight! Fight!” a coalition of
students, faculty, and staff from the City University of New York
(CUNY...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 5–38.
Published: 01 December 2007
...-
ological soil in which they have lately sprung forth with astonish-
ing vigor in the one case and taken root over the course of decades
in the other, namely, the cites (housing projects) of the French
working-class banlieues (outer city)2 and the black ghetto of the
U.S. metropolis. Whence...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 December 2007
...
Baghdad.
In the end, Baghdad is akin to its sisters; mythical and mytholo-
gized cities.
Baghdad is the search for Baghdad.
And all this destruction will only polish the selectivity of memory.
Nostalgia, too, will do what it usually does.
Baghdad is Baghdads: Copies...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 259–274.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Jonathan Skinner Gardens of Resistance
Gilles Clément, New Poetics, and Future Landscapes
Translator’s Introduction to Gilles Clément
jonathan skinner
According to the authors of a text on “Wild Plants in the City,”
published by the Arnold Arboretum, “The curious gardens of wild...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 391–404.
Published: 01 December 2019
... lives in New York and Philadelphia at the beginning of the twentieth century. The text is unprecedented in its attention to the intimate post-Reconstruction worlds young black women created for themselves amid the influx of black people to northern US cities. Hartman argues that these women, in open...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 143–182.
Published: 01 December 2003
...
consisted of innumerable projects of beautification, infrastructural
improvements, and the construction of hotels, cultural centers, and
international convention halls. Manila was dubbed the "City of
Man," one of the "many homes of mankind" that together would
comprise the envisioned end...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 513–518.
Published: 01 December 2017
... refrigerated clothing items, designed just around the corner in the Electronics City of Anekal, but produced in China. “Smart textiles,” they say. Slips. Hats, socks, and gloves, hermetically sealed. They are distributed to the employees of tech firms. Over there, they keep eight or nine degrees cooler...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 163–197.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of capitalist geographies toward East Asia ( “City That Exports Air,” 52 ). 33. Steinberg, “Maritime Cargomobilities,” 41 . Steinberg builds on some points made by David Harvey in “Remarks at ‘Forgotten Spaces’ Symposium.” 34. This film has also been criticized for not mentioning the history...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 39–71.
Published: 01 December 2007
... as it does a sort of micro-geog-
raphy combined with the increased polarization — and hence clar-
ity — that often accompanies urban spaces and populations."
Moreover, given the structure of many of the largest and most heav-
ily-urbanized Latin American cities — in which the wealthy take
refuge...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 553–572.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the cities, and a belief that rural communities are not given their fair share of resources or respect” ( pr , 51). Resentment, and how it relates to rural consciousness, is crucial to Cramer’s findings: a politics of resentment means that “people intertwine economic considerations with social and cultural...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 279–299.
Published: 01 June 2011
....
Renee Gladman, Event Factory
To ask “Will I remember?” is to acknowledge the vulnerability
of one’s consciousness; to ask “Will I be remembered?” is to ac-
knowledge the vulnerability of the historical moment. Of people in
the crowd on a sunlit city plaza, all are different, and the differenc...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 139–169.
Published: 01 December 2005
... live
and in natural size through Electrical Projection. Today."2 Twenty-
five photographs taken at the site of the war — the city of Canudos
in the deserted northern region of Brazil known as the sertao3 -
would be displayed for the first time, shown...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 123–145.
Published: 01 December 2014
...
Nancy directed with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe in the early 1980s,
emphasized what they called the “retreat” of the political, which
they understood as a double gesture.3 Politics having abandoned
its specifi city in seeking to manage the whole of existence (as in
the claim...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of distinctive social struc-
ture, something first proposed by French colonial scholarship on
the Maghrib. Classical Maghribi society, it was claimed, consisted
on the one hand of the centralized, hierarchical organization of
the cities and on the other of the egalitarian, segmental...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 125–158.
Published: 01 June 2024
... and chose objects to send to her. From Seafood City grocery bags to empty cans of SPAM, these “physical cultural detritus” (as Williams calls them) came to signify the relationship between their collectors (her family members), the artist, and the exhibit to come. “It’s baduy , right?” she offered...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 195–210.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., what is the relationship between suspending the everyday and using it to ground an unsettling of politics? bh : That’s a great question. To me, the Bacchae is a great text of feminist refusal. Normally, the women are pathologized and their return to the city is seen as a misstep. Do they expect...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 251–266.
Published: 01 June 2018
... prominently, however, he is an established author of science fiction and speculative (or, as he puts it, “weird”) fiction: like October , his celebrated fictional oeuvre evinces a fascination with both left politics and urban settings, including Embassytown (2012), The City and the City (2009...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 197–198.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 Contributors
talal asad is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City Univer-
sity of New York Graduate Center. He works on questions of religion and
secularism in modernity. Major publications include On Suicide Bombing;
Formations...
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