...Sikivu Hutchinson Duke University Press 2000 5. Hutchinson 4/24/00 11:24 AM Page 107 Waiting for the Bus Sometimes you could smell it. A block, an intersection away. A dirty bug Sikivu...

... by considering, through the idea of a “critical melancholia,” the ethical dimension of cartographic irresolution. I end by suggesting that we might also use this approach in thinking about recent geopolitical developments such as the opening of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus route. © 2009 Duke University Press...

...) brought home anew the signifi cance of public transit to the landscape and economy of LA. In a city in which it is easy for many to drive by bus stops without registering the presence of the people who wait there, the largely empty stops are harbingers of a shadow city in limbo. Bus and train...

... invested in expanding the circulation of visibility to bring in people like Victor and countries like Paraguay. Another less obvious example, with which I want to spend a bit more time, is Onibus 174 ( Bus 174 ; José Padilha, 2003), a film that struggles with but ultimately works to augment...

....” Muhanna ‘Arab’s house near the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo was destroyed by settlers, not by the authorities, and he therefore was promised shelter, but instead of having his house rebuilt, the authorities gave him a municipal bus...

... through the middle of town is an indicator of the changes that Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Bu Saidi’s rule inaugurated. Most statistics illustrating the dramatic changes in Oman after the 1970 coup d’état do not fail to mention road construction: in 1970 there were 6 kilometers of paved road...

... 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...

...- lion U.S. dollars, or 45 billion Pakistani rupees, was the first American- style highway ever built in the Indian subcontinent.1 Nawaz Sharif claimed as much as he shouted “There is not one motorway in the entire Hindustan” from his Caravan of Progress bus, which traversed the road...

... there are a lot of people mostly chanting, and here in this other spot we are blocking traffic, and the guy in the bus that is being blocked is dancing, and on Twitter people are reporting that passengers on the planes landing are cheering when they hear why there are delays, and the cops don’t know what to do...

...? What is more important than just getting through this semester? I walk to the bus stop. A twenty-minute walk. The wait for the bus can take anywhere from ten to twenty minutes. Today is not too cold, so I don't mind the wait or the silence. Three other people, standing, gazing forward...

... characterized the everyday space of the bus stop and the street, as described in the news snippets below: Dateline Liverpool. 31 July 2005. An 18-year-old black man, Anthony Walker, suffered a fatal racist attack that began at a bus stop in Huyton, a Liverpool suburb. Mr. Walker had...

...” or “ . . . Long Island. 10 p.m.” I’ll conclude by filling in the ellipses with: “ . . . the back of a Dade County public school bus circa 1987,” a site where I had been taught to put on eyeliner between hydraulic bumps. This is more than a “sounds like.” It’s an actual event where the Nuy...

..., the only woman in the play (which juxtaposes, pastiche-style, urban scenes from a tea stall–style café with those at a bus stop), named Zareena, is a working-class woman who holds a secretarial job at a local firm; though she complains about...

... seventy-five faculty and Elliott Young and graduate students from across the region for an intensive, weeklong discussion of cutting-edge theoretical and historical work. The seminar’s base is Tepoztlán, Morelos, a spectacular mountain retreat about an hour by bus from Mexico City. In 1995...

... Cooper. “We were really out there, I’m talking wigs, high heels,” recalls Boles, “walking from Fifty-­Ninth and Addison to Spruce to catch the bus through gang territory with high heels and a wig on.”12 Eventually they got on a bus to New York City...

..., forced to the surface the threats of extreme violence that underlay day-to-day life in the Jim Crow South. The point was, in part, to elevate quotidian violences to a spectacle—the violence of knowing that you had to sit in a certain section of the bus, for instance, and that to do otherwise would come...

... • Urban Margins countryside looking for shelter and jobs) bring home the uncertainty and vulnerability of a city living without adequate infrastructure. Half an hour of bus journeys becomes fifteen kilometers of walking on frozen roadways. Humphrey shows that in distant reaches of postsocialist...

... the long, forty-five minute subway ride to la parada. Like Rubén, there were others who also commuted by bus or subway to la parada. While they chose to make the commute to la parada, they did not want to extend their commute to the worker center. Though Rubén acknowledged that he could...