...C. Nadia Seremetakis © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 A “little grave” beside an official monument in Greece, 2015. Photograph courtesy of C. Nadia Seremetakis Social Text 126 • Vol. 34, No. 1 • March 2016...

..., civilian free-fire “no-fire” zones, and detention camps where the minority and the rabble were compressed in the same tortured, raped, murdered, and disappeared bodies. The thousands of disappeared, executed and buried in secret graves commemorated the terminal conversion of the classifiable minority...

... . Seremetakis C. Nadia . 2014 . “The Silent Détournement: Flexible Graves in the City of the Living.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropology of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth , Edinburgh , 19–22 June . Stoller Paul . 2002 . Money Has No Smell...

... the grave she is seeking with ease. As she anticipated, the plot is unkempt—the telltale sign of neglect by those family members who should be tending it (a wife and son, in this case). “Just as I suspected,” she says under her breath, as she greets the friend who is buried there: a former colleague...

.... II. Feeling Brown For a number of years now, scholars in queer theory have been debating the “antisocial thesis.” Traced to Leo Bersani’s formative writings, includ- ing “Is the Rectum a Grave?” (1987) and Homos (1995), and rekindled...

... of human activity. Preachers mine a vast archive of eschatological imagery —  the horrors that occur in the grave (ayzeb al-qabr), the terrifying encounter with the angel of death (Azra’il), the exuberant sensuality that awaits the pious in heaven...

... into the subject position of a problematic statistic. To give just an intimation of this argument, think about the Inuit buried in unmarked graves during the tuberculosis epidemic. What other burial does a person who has become only a statistic in the eyes of the state require? Or consider the story of Kaujaq...

... people, inhalers affixed like ornate Spanish combs of flamenco Doñas, tiptoe the panorama. Terra vibratos, spontaneity uneven—reactors balloon and deflate their half-lives. Degraded lungs of the world at the ball’s melting, melding center. Under the rubble, under the graves the ancient dead...

.... This decorated tree is a constant reminder of the happiness that the Bergens are missing. In Bergentown, like Pottersville, depression abounds. We see a Bergen lying in his own grave, troweling earth onto his own body. Another walks past, a book in hand, tearing all the pages out. Another goes round all...

...]? Titus further took the curtain and shaped it like a basket and brought all the vessels of the Sanctuary and put them in it, and then put them on board ship to go and triumph with them in his city, as it says, “And withal I saw the wicked buried, and they that come to the grave...

... directed by Black’s organization, Chitterlings, Inc. The novel also represents the conclusion of Himes’s Harlem detective cycle since it ends in the death of bothprotagonists: Grave Digger kills Coffin Ed, and Tommson Black kills Grave Digger. The plot, as Williams and other reviewers note, is not well...

.... And Saidian mourning, like Palestinian nationhood, is always driven to commemorate loss beyond the state’s ter- ritory, beyond the grave site, beyond the limits of the individual subject: onto other sites, utopias both real and invisible...

... they are being forcibly socialized in drug detention centers and postwar rehabilitation hospitals. And if we are not contemplating suicide, we are heading straight into the grave or up the maggot-ridden butts of street dogs. Of course, the residents of the bleak house have long been of interest to social...

... forged between a body at the vanishing point of visibility and the presentation of the DNA helix at the flm’s close speaks to the continued necessity to struggle for the implementation of the exhumation of bodies dumped in mass graves...

... in this issue. 4 Lewis, Big Short ; Roitman, Anti-crisis ; Varoufakis, And the Weak Suffer What They Must? 5 Khalili, Time in the Shadows ; Hajjar, Torture ; Soldz et al., All the President’s Psychologists . 6 De León, Land of Open Graves ; Lucht, Darkness before...

... forms of oppression. Despite the grave implications of these hypotheses, Stone aspired to recoup such multiplicity as a practice of pleasure and desire. But in her rush to celebrate the possibilities opened up by computer technology, Stone overlooked the fact that, as Kalí Tal has suggested...

... , 1994 . Grewal Zareena . Islam Is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority . New York : New York University Press , 2013 . Ho Engseng . The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean . Berkeley : University of California Press...

... of a tactility and clamorousness at odds with the relatively fastidious virtual drive of LA, steeped as it is in the rhythm of automobiles isolated in time. In considering this distant echo from the grave of LA journal- ism, I wonder about...

... that bodies move through space, and especially across national borders, on their own. Possessions and paperwork usually accompany them, and at various points along a journey those objects can carry serious consequences. It might matter gravely whether someone is carrying a virus or a Koran, more than three...

... Refugee Camp, a grieving mother had made a similar gesture. Imm Ghassan Abu-Hawila, widowed mother of seven, planted an olive tree next to the grave of her son Nizam, who was assassinated by an undercover Israeli hit squad during the first...