...Lisa Taraki The Palestinian town of Ramallah, possibly on the lowest rung of urban hierarchies in the region, is a peripheral town trying to become a city on the fringes of the Arab world. Its nascent new middle class partakes enthusiastically in the trans-Arab, urban, middle-class ethos elaborated...

...Nic Sammond Duke University Press 2008 “Mardi Gras Geishas (Batters New Orleans. Nic Sammond, June 2007. Courtesy of the artist. Thanks to Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World. ...

... negative feelings into political potentials. In examination of two New York Times feature articles from the mid-1970s, the essay suggests that depression and economic crisis have been ineluctably linked in the recent period of neoliberalism. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Depression Today...

..., apathetic concentration camp prisoners who were certain to die and possessed nothing more but their “bare life.” Somewhere between life and death, human and inhuman, the expression according to Agamben stood for “the guard on the threshold of a new ethics, an ethics of a form of life that begins where...

...David Kazanjian Abstract This essay interprets a 1714 petition by five Black Bostonians as a challenge to the role infrastructure played in racial capitalism's development in colonial New England. It theorizes this petition as an “ante‐commons,” or a collective action at once before, alongside...

...Mohammed A. Bamyeh Duke University Press 2000 1. bamyeh 2/11/00 10:51 AM Page 1 The New Imperialism SIX THESES...

..., AND A NEW REGIME OF CONSUMPTION If the work of the culture industry for Adorno and Horkheimer was the Arvind production of a logic of commodification that inhibited critical aware- Rajagopal ness, Walter Benjamin understood culture rather...

...Catherine Soussloff; Mark Franko Duke University Press 2002 Visual and Performance Studies A NEW HISTORY OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY No one can any longer separate knowledge from power, reason from...

...Fred Moten Duke University Press 2002 The New International of Decent Feelings In 1946, in the shadow of the last century’s most widely acknowledged Fred Moten versions of catastrophe, Louis Althusser described the formation of another...

...Lopamudra Basu Duke University Press 2002 The Poet in the Public Sphere A Conversation with Meena Alexander NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 2002...

... trans studies disability studies geopolitics of race debility capacity Bodies with New Organs Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled Jasbir K. Puar “Transgender rights are the civil rights issue of our time.” So stated Vice President Joe Biden just one week before the November 2012 election...

...Julian Brash Duke University Press 2003 Alpern, David M., Tony Fuller, Susan Agrest, and Jerry Buckley. 1981 . “Mr. Fixit for Cities.” Newsweek , 4 May, 26 -28. Arrighi, Giovanni. 1994 . The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of our Times . New York:Verso...

... The Border Ne x t Door: New York Migr aciones “You need to think about the point of view of someone who leaves home to Carlos Ulises go several thousand miles to find a working-class job, knowing that when Decena and you cross the border you leave your rights behind. You will have found...

...Carlos Ulises Decena; Michele G. Shedlin; Angela Martínez Duke University Press 2006 “Los hombres no mandan aquí” N arr ating Immigr ant Genders a nd Se xualities in New York El me decía [en...

...Pilar A. Parra; Max J. Pfeffer Duke University Press 2006 New Immigrants in Rural Communities The Ch allenges of Integr ation The 2000 U.S. Census of Population reported increased Latino migration...