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...Jemima Pierre This article engages the scholarly discussion of the booming heritage tourism industry in Ghana to explore the dynamics and politics of historical and contemporary African-diasporic interactions and provoke a critical revision of diaspora theory. I argue that Ghanaian-diaspora...

...John Patrick Leary This essay explores the politics of representation in contemporary Venezuelan television, which in its mainstream forms has produced an urban imaginary that models national citizenship on the geographic, class, and racial divisions of the Venezuelan metropolis. The nation's...

... contained consumerism, I then consider how particular visual and linguistic practices were autonomized in the mode of style. At the center of the essay is an exploration of the apotheosis of masculinist claims to sovereignty via style; it concludes by reflecting on the gendered aporia in any politics...

.... These bodyscapes enable me to postulate the notion of negative anatomo-politics, which I understand as the coordination of the disciplinary effects and social control of an abnormalization strategy that works through new uses of social violence and an unsymbolizable residue: “cruelty” with no ideological...

... reflect on how to “contain” them. Viral epidemics constitute not only vital events but also scalar narratives—they articulate transformations at the levels of molecules, cells, organisms, individuals, populations, species, ecosystems, technological infrastructures, political economies, and networks...

... the culmination of almost fifty years of sexual politics. To answer this question, the essay returns Guy Hocquenghem’s seminal 1972 text Homosexual Desire to consider the latent friction between sexual and politics that Hocquenghem identifies and that continues to characterize our contemporary moment...

...Alys Eve Weinbaum ST.02- Weinbaum 5/24/01 5:53 PM Page 15 Reproducing Racial Globality W. E. B. DU BOIS AND THE SEXUAL POLITICS...

... AND THE POLITICS OF APPEASEMENT From the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the summer of 1982 to the sign- Salah D. Hassan ing of the Declaration of Principles on 13 September 1993, Palestinian politics witnessed the transformation of the PLO from a revolutionary national liberation movement to a partner...

...Barbara Spindel Duke University Press 2003 Conservatism as the “Sensible Middle” THE INDEPENDENT WOMEN’S FORUM, POLITICS, AND THE MEDIA During...

..., GLOBAL POLITICS, AND CULTURAL CRITICISM In the introduction to what became an infamous set of essays published in Patricia Social Text in 1996, Andrew Ross pointed to the connection conservative Ticineto critics were drawing between what had been called the “culture wars...

...Tiziana Terranova Duke University Press 2004 Communication beyond Meaning ON THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF INFORMATION Is it possible to draw on scientifi c concepts to further our understand- Tiziana...

...Nicole R. Fleetwood Duke University Press 2005 Mediating Youth COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION AND THE POLITICS OF RACE AND AUTHENTICITY “We’re...

...Margaret Morganroth Gullette Margaret Morganroth Gullette 2005 Suppressing Grief THE POLITICS OF “MCCARTHY”-ERA TESTIMONIES The Chinese character [han] shows a heart and it shows a head...

... to normative trajectories, we can begin to unpack the very contours of normativity itself. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Wallflower Masculinities and the Peripheral Politics of Emo Matthew Carrillo-­Vincent Emo is a joke. What is emo? It is something for fifteen-year-old girls...

...Robert Meister The article develops political implications of the late Randy Martin’s idea of “derivative sociality” as the real subsumption of human life under the option form. The option form, beginning with the hedge, allows realized surplus value to be preserved (locked in) and eventually...

...-income, and disabled populations as drains on the state, reframing this discourse as a potential site of coalition among antiracist, anticapitalist, and feminist disability politics. Whereas antiwelfare policy cast independence as a national ideal, this analysis of the welfare mother elaborates a version...

... will be critical drivers of urban transformations capable of enduring climate change. But the collective actions of many low-income districts are seemingly indifferent to such expectations. Both the endurance of long-honed political practices and their substantive adjustments are explored here in order to revisit...

...Max Haiven Abstract The last forty years of financialization have laid the groundwork for a resurgence of fascist cultural politics. This article expands Hito Steyerl's notion of derivative fascism by placing it in dialogue with Enzo Traverso's theory of postfascism and Randy Martin's exploration...

...Martina Tazzioli; Nicholas De Genova Abstract This article proposes border abolitionism as both a political and an analytical framework for deepening critiques of border, migration, and asylum regimes worldwide. Abolitionist perspectives have been associated primarily with questions...