...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...

... complicated by culture's intimate ties to the state: administration, governmentality, and war. These days, the culture concept's combination of expansionist energies and inner antagonisms makes it a slippery and untrustworthy idea: it offers, at once, too much and too little. Social Text 's long romance with...

... South Asia. In the last few years the heightened interest in urban studies has generally structured arguments around megacities. In contrast we argue that little attention has been given to other urban landscapes, small- and medium-sized towns that are situated on the margins of this discourse. Even...

...C. Nadia Seremetakis The story at hand is the spread of little street memorials for the dead in the Greek urbanscape during the current socioeconomic crisis. These memorials point to a third-stream anamnesis: memory focused on the historicity of the everyday that the dominant public culture, split...

... caused was severe. Families who had never been apart were separated for years with little means of communication. Some Inuit died in the sanatoria. Family members had no way of knowing whether the absent were alive or dead. Many had a hard time finding words to speak into the recorder. Nonetheless, they...

... sometimes. We talk a little bit about how, despite the sometimes good and sometimes bad intentions of your fairly white mostly cisgender male creators, you were made to be just as racist, sexist, and classist as the society that created and trained you. And we talk about shrimp and why you want us to help...

...Joon Oluchi Lee Duke University Press 2005 The Joy of the Castrated Boy The girly things I wanted when I was a little boy (things that made me Joon Oluchi Lee girly): Pink- and heart-covered...

... still sits on my desk. Manufactured sometime in the 1980s, the mushroom- colored device has the same proportions as a deck of playing cards, just a little thinner. Say a quarter of a pack. The calculator’s black vinyl case has wrinkled with age, but the high- power solar cell still works...

... gendercohesion, la genrecohesion, the goes-­well-­togetherness of genders clearly distinguished male and female  — oh, you know, José Esteban, the gendercoherent here in France are frightened these days because the government wants to introduce a little bit of gendertheory into schools, for...

...-accessible barracks rooms with a little kitchenette, but these newly built rooms meant to accommodate the bodies of severely injured soldiers were singles. Those few lucky soldiers that got them had to spend the night alone. For Jake, all these ways of breaking the rule, all these ways of sleeping alone...

... • September 2015 8 3 and the mother as a rival.30 During the time of the Oedipus complex, little boys and girls discover somehow (and to their horror, of course) that the omnipotent “phallic mother” in fact lacks a penis: she has been castrated...

..., when Frankenstein splits his stitches and he dies, fertilizing the earth where that little girl grows tomatoes.”15 In contrast to the original novel, here the monster secures his future, joining the human scheme of...

... electoral politics. Musing from his office in Alexandria, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, he described this dilemma as follows: You can drive up the road from here and come to a spot where there is a megachurch over here, a little Episcopal church over there, a Catholic church...

... that we can expect to see more of in the coming years. Our research project exploring life under CRIS-E grew out of a conviction that we actually know very little about the experiences and understandings of the surveilled.1 Until quite recently, almost all research Social Text 83, Vol...

... favelas, wherein most public employees—teachers and health workers—refused to set foot. Luciana, as it turned out, was a sort of baby-sitter for her little broth- ers and occasionally other children in the neighborhood. To “keep the kids out of mischief [ para não fazer arte she would come home...

... long-standing debate concerning the politics of race in black/white transracial adoption and fos- ter care. In comparison, little critical attention has been paid to the politics of race (not to mention the psychic issues) regarding transnational adop- tion of Asian children by white families...

.... I am also no expert in Russian liturgical music, although I did my best in my little uke cover to replicate the harmonies accurately. It was only after I spoke at the Jordan Center, however, that I learned of the source of the refrain. Minutes after...

... reparative approach that might forge other means for and engagements with those devalued? How should we recount? Asked differently, is the point to replicate a process of multiculturally educating broader publics of the histories of dispossession so that they can feel just a little bit more for a few more...

... or commitment if it weren’t for my interest in logistics, and I am certainly not suggesting any strict separation between logistics and infrastructure. I have shifted focus a little from the movement between and connectivity across to consider the construction of fixed infrastructures that support...

..., an imperialist in New Chinatown, poor on the Gold Coast, a giant in Little Italy . . . Chicago, let’s spend my shore leave (what shore am I leaving?) in a skyscraper bed with an unlocked view...