...Shu-mei Shih This essay brings into dialectical consideration the relationship between postsocialism and posthumanism in China through the life story of Marxist humanism from the global 1960s to the present across Eastern Europe, France, and the United States. It especially foregrounds the American...

... of such dissent to reinforce its legitimacy as a liberal democracy. Border residents in eastern India, predominantly Muslim or depressed caste, are minority citizens. By closely reading the terms through which they articulate their claims and humiliations and how they are rendered suspect, subordinated...

... “heritage” of the Third Reich. Thus eastern citizenship was construed as a perversion of cultural Germanness by unmediated state power. Likewise, in the eastern variant, the West was deemed to have inherited the same corrupting spirit of international capital...

.... The dissemination of Said’s critique of orientalism, meanwhile, helped transform the field of Middle Eastern studies itself. The impact ofOrien - talism there is distinct from its impact in postcolonial literary and cultural studies programs, where...

... were no dissenters; they Congress saw their discipline as an armature of Anglo-American policy. As Philip Hitti, founder of the program in Near Eastern studies at Princeton, argued, to pass the American universities were the most...

... (historical materialist) analyses of those wars (especially the Crimean and the Vietnamese anti- imperial wars), wherein the Eastern Question and the Woman Question— those twin pillars of our present war—constituted the axes of orientation and the ground of a relation to war. Freud’s war, in which...

... Menon killed a store clerk from Pakistan, blinded a clerk from Bangladesh, and then, saying “God Bless America,” murdered Vasudev Patel, an Indian immigrant.1 These were not random acts of violence. Mistaken as being of Middle Eastern descent, many South Asian Americans/immigrants, along...

... by their attentiveness to particular locales as their sites of analy- sis: eastern Germany, Oman, Greece, India, New York City, and southern Brazil. Any complex consideration of globalization requires focusing on the specificity...

.... Mandana E. Limbert is a doctoral candidate in anthropology and Near Eastern studies at the University of Michigan. She is currently a fellow at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Middle Eastern studies at New York University. Arvind Rajagopal teaches media...

... Easterners. These include revived tactics of state power, including indefinite detention, undercover entrapment campaigns, expanded surveillance, the special Social Text 111 • Vol. 30, No. 2 • Summer 2012 DOI 10.1215/01642472...

... that while he initially did not see himself implicated in the imagined terrorist havens supposedly embedded in Middle Eastern and South Asian immigrant communities, he neverthe- less noticed that there were more arrests and rounding up...

... in provoking ruptures, dislocations, and fragmentation for Palestinian lives, and—in a different way—for Middle Eastern and north African Jews. These ruptures were not only physical (the movement across borders) but also cultural (a rift...

... 6,472 orphans were granted visas, and 2001, when 18,699 orphan visas were issued. The bulk of the children came from countries in political and economic upheaval. Korea, China, Russia, and Guatemala topped the list. But the less familiar former Soviet republics and central and Eastern European...

... understanding of feminism that assumes a nonfinalized and conjunctural definition of feminism as a polysemic site of contradictory positionalities. Any dialogue about the fic- tive unity called “Middle Eastern women” or “Latin American gays...

... contradictory mediation of the contemporary, protracted postcolonial agony. Even in eastern European countries where migration is comparatively negligible, national identity is commonly posited against various figures of effectively racialized foreignness. In Hungary the far-right populist party Jobbik...

.... we violate the auction block experiment. we pirates of ourselves and others. we the friend of all. we the cargo. are you my treasure? you all I need. are you my wish? come be my sunship. you are my starship. you meant to fly but don’t be late. I dream the sails of the project from the eastern...

... political networks, which circulate between the region and the United States, all while making the claims of one group meaningful or intelligible to another. In this way, a single expert can serve the interests of multiple stakeholders in Washington—from powerful Middle Eastern governments, to different...

... sierras of eastern Cuba; urban Arab nationalists took refuge in the Rif or the villages of Upper Egypt; Sinn Fein fl ed Dublin and Cork for the Wicklow and Galty hills; Gandhi turned to the great soul of the Indian countryside; Emilio...

... in Australia, he had to be quickly naturalized as an American citizen in order to join the Clinton administration. After his stint on the National Security Council, Indyk subsequently served as U.S. ambassador to Israel, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, and then again as ambassador...

... in anthro- pology and in East Asian languages and civilizations. From 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm. He now teaches anthropology at Cornell University. His publications include articles on the indigenous people of Southwest China and Southeast Asia...