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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 39–71.
Published: 01 December 2007
...George Ciccariello-Maher Copyright © 2007 Qui Parle 2007 TOWARD A RACIAL GEOGRAPHY OF CARACAS:
NEOLIBERAL URBANISM AND THE FEAR OF
PENETRATION
George Ciccariello-Maher
As I begin this essay, it is the twelfth of October, the "Day of
Discovery," which marks the arrival...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 101–142.
Published: 01 June 2017
... the figure of the urban stranger and passerby to argue for an aesthetics and ethics of social anonymity that does not rely on or demand identification and that thereby remains open to the risk, surprise, and pleasure of shared existence. In doing so, I theorize intimacy as that which remains unnameable...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 5–38.
Published: 01 December 2007
... and mechanisms of urban margin-
alization in France and the United States. To do so, I examine not
the substance but the substrate of the racialized urban tensions that
have manifested themselves with increased virulence in these two
societies during the two closing decades of the century — the soci...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 29–54.
Published: 01 December 2010
... market, and “castil-
ianized” (speaking Spanish). Invariably, this citizen was an urban
young male, dressed in a tailored suit, imitating the behavior of the
Westernized elite.10 The initial version of this modernization project
was expressed in the Law of Expropriation (Ley de Exvinculación...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 553–572.
Published: 01 December 2017
... her interviewees’ political views mobilized in a period of contentious politics. 5 In the process Cramer discovered the complex and often resentful attitudes of Wisconsin’s rural voters toward any manifestation of urban governance. While trained in collecting polling data, Cramer adopts a broader...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 171–184.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of miniature texts.4
I had read these texts against the background of Andreas Huyssen’s
article “Modernist Miniatures: Literary Snapshots of Urban Spaces.”
Published in pmla back in 2007, it came with a sense of both nov-
elty and belatedness. Novel, because in it a major critic...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 143–182.
Published: 01 December 2003
... into effect
by means of a liberative gesture on the part of the periphery. In the
experience of contemporary Philippine urban life articulated by
Perez we witness the concrete rendering of this moment and of the
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way such a global achievement and its fallout...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., saints in the latter. Both structures are
seen as parts of a single system because they define the opponents
between whom an unceasing struggle for political dominance takes
place. More precisely, because both urban and tribal populations
are Muslim, all owing at the very least a nominal...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 165–170.
Published: 01 June 2001
... on the history of Italian Fascism, on fascist
modernism as it has been interpreted in history and cultural studies,
and specific studies on Sironi. She then moves on to discuss Sironi's
early career, his Futurist beginnings, and his urban landscape paint-
ings of the late 1910s and early 1920s...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 521–538.
Published: 01 December 2018
... . Clover Joshua . Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings . London : Verso , 2016 . Dawson Ashley . Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change . London : Verso , 2017 . Delany Samuel R. Nova . Garden City, NY : Doubleday , 1968...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 57–102.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of
a racial confrontation between the urban-based Ecole de Paris -
supposedly dominated by Jewish artists of foreign extraction — and
an indigenous Ecole francaise, made up of former Fauves who had
"returned to the soil" to rediscover their own French roots.' They
found...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 181–188.
Published: 01 June 2019
... encounter. The forms included here reflect various histories of this search for identity, seen from the perspective of the socioeconomic margins of contemporary Brazil. I was born and raised in a mixed-race family in the urban peripheries of southern Brazil. Thus I have witnessed firsthand how...
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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 147–149.
Published: 01 December 2007
... on urban marginality, embodiment, the
penal state, ethnoracial domination, and social theory translat-
ed in a dozen languages. His recent books include Body and
Soul: Notebooks of An Apprentice Boxer (2004), The Mystery of
Ministry: Pierre Bourdieu...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 81–83.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to an ideal state of social interaction, a com-
munistic being-together free of coercion and innocent of the urban
disease of alienation. According to Tonnies, it is a form of living
Qui Parle,Vol. 15, No. 1 Fall/Winter 2004
82 TODD CRONAN
with deep roots in a self-subsistent...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 145–177.
Published: 01 June 2020
... that a sponsor cannot apply for spousal reunification if he or she lives in a neighborhood considered problematic and “vulnerable” ( ar , 193). The idea that some urban areas might encourage degeneracy and immoral habits among particular urban segments has a long history, as Thomas Osborne and Nikolas Rose...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 587–589.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of Word Processing . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2016 . Kotkin Joel . The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us . Evanston, IL : Agate , 2016 . Monga Célestin . Nihilism and Negritude: Ways of Living in Africa , translated by Velguth...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 275–297.
Published: 01 December 2011
... eucalyptus better—or a
protected, diverse forest, off limits and slow to grow, or, yet again,
bare windswept soil?
The vagabondage of species, their dispersion across the planet,
casts a troubling light on ecology. Scientists had not foreseen the
category of “urban” ecology. We also speak of human...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 87–115.
Published: 01 December 2011
...,
on which more below.
With this still-incipient expansion of geographical and cul-
tural horizons came a marked shift in ecocritical thinking about
the exemplary landscape or landscapes it should seek to engage.
First-wave ecocriticism typically privileged rural and wild spaces
over urban ones...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 139–169.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of the daily Brazilian
newspapers. These periodicals, published in the cosmopolitan bus-
tle of the urban centers, had kept citizens informed through articles
and daily wires; nevertheless, the enemy's faces and the region's
physical appearance had remained unknown. Given...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 15–56.
Published: 01 December 2004
.... There is also no question that
the structural adjustment programs of the 1980s and 1990s radi-
cally compounded Africa's economic problems by deliberately
decimating the wages of urban workers and, more inadvertently,
undermining state clientage networks that served as an informal
(but highly...
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