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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 December 2014
... instance, Pussy Riot’s brief concert in a Moscow ca-
thedral, consists of shouted slogans and symbolic actions. The sec-
ond, Archbishop Moses Tay’s attempt to exorcise the totem poles
in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, confronts sacred objects with a sym-
bolic violence that ironically signals...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 231–295.
Published: 01 December 2022
... untouched by scholars who have written about what has been called the “TSU Riot.” 1 Still, I am not certain that, if other historians had been aware of or employed these sources, their accounts of the attack at TSU would be any different, because while the issues I raise in this article about...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 521–538.
Published: 01 December 2018
... studies scholar of finance as well as nuclear disarmament; 11 Maurizio Lazzarato, a key theorizer of post-Fordist labor; 12 the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze; 13 and Joshua Clover, the communist poet turned political theorist of riot and contemporary capital circulation. 14 In drawing...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 233–239.
Published: 01 June 2011
... education. One
has to conjure this international dimension for morale, because the
grim fact at this stage of the student struggle is that, while the so-
cial relations made possible by twenty-to-one student/teacher ra-
tios are on the chopping block, that ratio now describes riot police
to striking...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 343–372.
Published: 01 December 2020
... this sense of single-minded communal dedication to a common goal. At the same time, the sympathetic, ambivalent, caught-in-the-crossfire figures do not disappear in Hunger . Rather, such roles are transferred to the film’s other leading characters—the prison guards, riot police, and other workers...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 271–278.
Published: 01 June 2011
... thousand people. The police rhetoric of
“preventative” action (prevention of rioting, or damage to proper-
ty) with the formation of a tightly packed “chain” of police bodies,
backed with a garrison of vehicles and a reserve force of riot po-
lice, horses and dogs, is not only...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 5–38.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of the national society.
Both cause and effect of this media run-up, the belief that the coun-
try's declining working-class cites are swimming in anomie and on
the brink of constant rioting due to an unprecedented combination
of geographic isolation, physical deterioration of the housing stock...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 3–32.
Published: 01 June 2011
... contingent joined other public-sector
workers in a London protest against public spending cuts. About
half a million people attended.15 The university played a central
role in the Greek riots of 2008, partly for tactical reasons. In
Greece, academic institutions are protected under asylum...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 53–62.
Published: 01 December 2003
...
Riot' and Contemporary U.S. Politics" in Reading Rodney King.
12 The 1992 multiracial conflagration in Los Angeles following the acquittal of four
white LAPD officers for the videotaped beating of a black motorist, Rodney King,
has spurred a good deal of confusion...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 147–192.
Published: 01 December 2010
... me. He said he knew very
well I was a government servant from Delhi, a NRI [nonresident
Indian] and probably a Muslim, and he had nothing to say to
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me about the riots. He told me to go back to Delhi. He was also
extremely...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 241–280.
Published: 01 December 2019
... ( Laboring Women ). See also Nwokeji, “African Conceptions.” 13. But Hopper argues against the tendency to view IOW slavery as primarily domestic ( Slaves of One Master ). 12. Cooper, Plantation Slavery ; Croucher, Capitalism and Cloves ; Glassman, Feasts and Riots . 11...
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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 December 2015
... to resist be-
ginning with a massive wave of public rallies and strikes. In No-
vember 2009, as the regents met to vote for the emergency fee in-
crease, they faced a student riot at ucla that managed to encircle
their meeting hall. Meanwhile, at Berkeley, news of the fee hike’s...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 137–156.
Published: 01 June 2001
... here is Ilya
Ehrenburg, one of the Soviet Union's most celebrated writers through
the mid-1960s. Though riot a Bolshevik of the first hour, Ehrenburg
proved a loyal fellow traveler of the Soviet revolution, particularly
during the Stalin years. His warfront...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 203–221.
Published: 01 December 2003
..., Foucault claims that his book Discipline and Punish was
instrumental in several prison riots in France.
15 Michel Foucault, "What is Critique?" [1979], The Politics of Truth, ed. Sylvere
Lotringer and Lysa Hochroth, trans. Lysa Hochroth (New York: Semiotext(e), 1998...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 251–269.
Published: 01 June 2011
... another incident of 2009 that was seen as non-
speech, including by some protesters: the riot-like dance party that
took place on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley after a building oc-
cupation, which seemed to many unconnected to the point of the
occupation. Maybe it was just a desire to trample fl owers...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 279–299.
Published: 01 June 2011
....
As in Greek tragedy, it is the chorus that captions the situation.
“You’re sexy, you’re cute, why not take off that riot suit.”
It is true that the allegorical imposes or deploys a paradigm,
a code, on an image or event, but only momentarily. It brings
about a synchronization, which is by nature...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 15–43.
Published: 01 December 2016
... lmmakers don’t want to shoot riots, because that
would make it seem as though social violence weren’t everyday (cna,
146). Similarly, they don’t particularly shoot manufacture or waste, be-
cause that would make it seem as though capitalism could be found
only in the selected processes and eff ects...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 31–56.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., banning acts or words “offending religious feelings” or the
“public desecration” of religious spaces.19 The laws were seen as a
response to the notorious feminist punk band Pussy Riot’s perfor-
mance in Moscow’s central Orthodox church for which two of its
members were found guilty of “hooliganism...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 101–142.
Published: 01 June 2017
.... Brown’s and Duggan’s deaths, and the subsequent dismissal of criminal charges against Darren Wilson, the police officer who had killed Brown, and against any of the eleven officers involved in Duggan’s death, ignited protests and riots in the local communities that developed into nationwide political...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 December 2009
...,
alienated” is surely a little fanciful, unless, of course, one takes the
mere occurrence of bread riots in periods of economic hardship as
a sign of mental disturbance among the poor. Yet, oddly enough,
when Gellner does refer to the urban masses in twentieth-century...
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