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... are deliberately unsettled through performances of dissent. I offer a case study from fieldwork conducted during antigovernment protests in Bangkok, Thailand, in the early 2010s to analyze how sound acts, circulates, and refracts meaning in the performance of dissent, later returning to protest music—now...

... Asia have appeared in positions, Public Culture, Social Text, and differences, among other venues. Her most recent book is In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand (Duke University Press). Fred Moten is an assistant professor of performance studies at Tisch School...

.... Following the CIA-backed Pinochet coup in Chile two months earlier, students gathered in the center of Athens to shout Allende's name. The name itself became a slogan and was chanted again repeatedly during the Polytechneio uprising. 72 There were chants for Thailand. In October 1973, one month before...

... in Proceedings of the Sixth Inter- national Conference on Thai Studies, vol. 4, part 1 (Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1996), 391 – 414; Chit Phumisak, Khwampenma khong kham Sayam Thai, Lao lae khom, lae laksana thang sangkhom khong...

... is actually rich in detail, and his biography gives an idea of the intellectual context in which he moved. He traveled around Mexico in the 1960s, and later went to Greece, Turkey, Morocco, India, Tunisia, and Thailand. In England, Lacey was Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek’s English teacher...

... as subjects of rectal intervention in the SSCI report were housed at the black sites in Thailand and Afghanistan. Several were also rendered to Morocco for interrogation. Most of the prisoners were held at the infamous COBALT prison, also known as the Salt Pit or Dark Prison, located near the airport ten...

... September 1998). Growth rates in 1996, the last year before the financial crunch in Asia, were as follows: Singapore, 7.0 percent; China, 9.7 percent; South Korea, 7.1 percent; Thailand, 6.7 percent; Malaysia, 8.4 per- The State of University-Industry Relations...

..., South Africa, and Thailand with major pharmaceutical companies who agreed on concessions to pro- viding ARVs to poor countries. The battles regarding pharmaceuticals, not only for treatment of HIV/AIDS but for other life-threatening diseases...

...? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand,” Public Culture 12 (2000): 45 7  –  75 . 7. Negative or apophatic theology is a theology that addresses or explains God by negation, that is, in terms of what may...

... in the Bush administration, as images of women are sold abroad as Western feminism for export to build new mar- kets for cosmetics and porn, as girls and women are sold into prostitution in Thailand and elsewhere, as women drop their chadors...

... on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, my parents were living in a two-bedroom apartment they shared with my father's sister and her husband. They split their rent of $400 a month, and even then, their meager welfare checks were not enough. They were responsible to their family still in the Thailand refugee...

... being sub- jected to indefinite detention as a so-­called enemy combatant in the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Abu Zubaydah was tortured within the CIA’s offshore prison network: he was reportedly incarcerated in Thailand, Poland, Jordan, and Diego Garcia, among other...

..., sunflowers, propane tanks and Thailand.”29 Or, again: “One of Latour’s virtues is his refusal to focus on a single magical gap between thinking, practical, moody humans on the one hand and stupefied inani- mate clods of matter on the other.”30 Though Harman is discussing a rift...

... the Margins of Modernity: Women, Migra- tion, and Consumption in Thailand,” American Ethnologist 24 (1997): 43 – 54. 39. FTZ workers faced mental and physical abuse within their romantic/sexual relationships in their factories, boardinghouses, and the neighborhood. 40. Sandya Hewamanne...

... in Brazil because of political will.”43 The industry has recently put out medicamentation. a pharmaco-economic report on emergent HIV/AIDS pharmaceutical markets—namely, Brazil, Thailand, India, China, and South Africa—and argued that if these governments were to provide the simplest version...

... articles in this journal do not indicate a monovocal diatribe against the “terror from the East.” For instance, Peter Chalk, in his “Separatism and Southeast Asia: The Islamic Factor in Southern Thailand, Mindanao, and Aceh...

... is not unique to the United States; it character- izes all politics in the televisual era. For a study of its operations in another con- text, see my “Intimacy and Corruption in Thailand’s Age of Transparency,” in Off Stage, on Display: Intimacy and Ethnography in the Age of Public Culture, ed. Andrew...