Search Results for affect

...Melissa Autumn White Drawing on interviews with self-identified LGBTQ migrants, lawyers and immigration consultants conducted in Toronto in 2008–09 and 2013, this article explores the affective economies of queer migration governance in the transnational Canadian context. With a specific focus...

... as humanitarian, and facilitate engagements with occupied civilian women—the article argues that the affective labor of women soldiers and marines was strategically instrumentalized for population-centric counterinsurgency warfare. In addition to the gendered labor women perform as counterinsurgents, the article...

...Emmanuel David This article examines how global call centers serve as affective zones of contact at the crossroads of sex and empire. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with transgender call center workers in the Philippines, this essay explores how global outsourcing has...

... to establish a capacious notion of the archive devised and enabled by undocumented queer immigrants' households in New York City. Using ethnographic fieldwork and buoyed by writings in affect theory and material culture studies, this essay aspires to understand how seemingly chaotic and disorderly household...

... systems that have tended to privilege the “high” faculties of reason to the detriment of the “base” materiality of the body, its affects and appetites, porn is too rarely approached as a legitimate source with which to think cultural, affective, intellectual, and sexual histories. This article draws from...

... domination in China influenced Smith's decision to depict racialism and racism in the United States as social and psychological harms. Her time in the Far East also brought Smith into contact with the writings of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, and Gandhi's ideas in particular would affect the way...

... to it, and it is that history that forms the basis of this contribution—describing enclosure more as social construct than a physical act, although the physicality of enclosure at Greenham was real for those directly affected by it. In addition to a short contextual essay, the contribution is unusual in another respect...

...Marco Armiero At the end of nineteenth century, the city of Naples, Italy was hit by a cholera epidemic that affected the fishers' neighborhoods that lined the seaboard with special intensity. As a consequence of the epidemic, the area was transformed from a poor neighborhood inhabited by fishers...

... relations in general. It argues that the ontology of enclosure has continued to spread in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to geographical locations formerly connected to British and European colonial expansion, adversely affecting the struggles of today's agricultural communities. The major...

... and to the needs of working-class people whose livelihoods depend on the lands and water-scapes affected by the spill. In the process, the essay, which examines methods for democratizing the classroom, raises questions about the ways environmental history is taught and the need for institutional flexibility...

... to help explain the spatial reorganization and decentralization of production that has affected women and men, older livelihood pursuits and newer ones. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2010 Flexible Fishing Gender and the New Spatial Division of Labor in Eastern Indonesia’s...

... explored the ways that the stories of New Yorkers, whether directly or indirectly affected by the events, differed from the national construction of meaning disseminated by the government and the media. In this essay Clark explores the importance of oral history in defining public meaning...

...–related themes, 9/11 and its aftermath resonated in a singular way within an industry and subculture that remains anchored in the five boroughs. The destruction and horror of the attack on downtown Manhattan affected many cartoonists personally, and in a few cases inspired their best work. The events...

... is directly addressed and briefly contextualized in terms of important questions on the development and application of primary sources in writing history, as well as recent trends and emerging models of digital repositories as they affect the history of antiapartheid movements. The article...

... that would have produced sonic booms affecting many millions of people. This article explores the history of sonic booms, with special focus on the causes, contexts, and consequences of the Oklahoma City experiment. It argues that within the political economy of the Cold War, sonic booms became a new kind...

..., colonialism, and normativity in photography; and the violent erasures of sexual and gender minorities within the conventional family photography album. “Family” photographs, so central to the affective production of trans ☼ family, however defined, have not been the site of sustained discussion within queer...