...Ban Wang Duke University Press 2002 The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, and Area Studies In my local library in East Brunswick, New Jersey, military artifacts, Ban Wang weapons, and photos are on prominent display as a reminder of the days of the world...

...Ella Shohat Ella Shohat 2002 Area Studies, Gender Studies, and the Cartographies of Knowledge Soon after September 11, the media resumed their habitual attack on Ella Shohat...

...Malini Johar Schueller Duke University Press 2007 Area Studies and Multicultural Imperialism The Projec t of Decolonizing Knowledge Security. Surveillance. Diversity. Balance. These have been the contradic- Malini...

..., following the attacks of September 11 the teaching and scholarship of professors, particularly those working in controversial fields such as area studies, came under attack in a manner unparalleled since the McCarthy era. Waged...

...-, and transdisciplinary space of Social Text . Literature, understood as a multiplicity of practices, theories, and critical methods, is a complex site for negotiating the tension of the universal and particular, a tension that governs, among others areas, the relation of theory and praxis and that of Marxist critique...

.... These areas of inquiry are now embroiled in the phenomenon of the global university, or the proliferation of U.S and European academic outposts in the rest of the world. This complex terrain of global corporatization, neocolonial educative empires, and cross-cultural exchange calls for a renewed critical...

... continue to discuss the term) is an institutional formation, which occasionally and hubristically imagines its reach in other areas, both touching and being touched by “the real.” Thinking with and through the work of José Esteban Muñoz, whose loss has created a rupture in our utopian impulses, this essay...

... studies and Marxism; and, third, it provincializes strands of queer critique by investigating the institutionalization of queer studies as a subset of American studies/US area studies. Throughout, it explores how emergent theoretical debates on debility, indigeneity, and trans revise and rework...

... an important role in reinvigorating the sense of community, by legitimizing ownership claims that the community has made over the area, and by serving as a mitigation strategy in a context of increasing climatic-extreme events. In 2019 a team of researchers started an oral history project to document...

... belt areas, the degeneration and abandonment of housing stock, the desertification of inner-city neighborhoods—created a city within a city of derelict buildings, abandoned lots, dumping grounds, and even entire derelict city parks: a ready-made archipelago...

... altered the lifeways of numerous groups of people of color who used to hang out on the sidewalks and corners of the area for sex, leisure, and other forms of commerce. Not only are these groups visibly disciplined, they are also...

... Mexicans home. However, in the decade after NAFTA was signed, Mexico-U.S. undocumented immigration doubled, and millions of Mexican peasants were displaced to urban areas in Mexico. Demetrios Papademetriou of the Migration Policy...

... is on the memories and perceptual shifts associated with changing forms of governance in a medium-sized town outside of the capital area, as it is increasingly incorporated into the bureaucracy and history of the nation-state. I examine how the fort has changed from local and regional political-military...

... the filthiest words I have ever heard. I remember repeated references to “no-good whores.” My long-term field research in the area surrounding the Katunayake FTZ in 1999 – 2000 showed me that street vendors, shopkeepers, bus conductors, and even policemen often referred to FTZ working...

.... © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 race disability opioid epidemic medicine law “Shootings in broad daylight, drug deals in abandoned buildings, mothers overdosing on heroin: This isn’t the South Bronx in the 1980s; it’s Trumbull County, Ohio, in 2017. This area was ground zero...

..., is a blue-collar residential area seventy miles east of Manhattan and strategi- cally located just off the Long Island Expressway, the principal highway that cuts east-west through the center of the island. Word spread, from friend...

... a week and had not witnessed a single location not fully controlled by the Israeli occupation. Even in areas that the Oslo Peace Accords had designated as under full Palestinian civilian and military control (so-­called Area A), we saw settler outposts perched on every hilltop, bypass roads...

... article “ ‘I’m Here, but I’m There’: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood” (1997), coauthored with Ernes- tine Avila, examines the situations of Latina immigrants who work as nannies or housekeepers in the Los Angeles area while their children remain behind...

... Pilar A. Parra and into rural areas.1 New York State is not an exception to this trend. Many Max J. Pfeffer rural communities are becoming more diverse, and without the influx of minorities, they would be experiencing population decline.2 One source of immigrants increasingly likely...