...Naveeda Khan Duke University Press 2006 Flaws in the Flow Roads and Their Modernit y in Pakistan The Inauguration Naveeda...

...Susan Zieger Abstract This essay explores the road and the chain as material and ideological forms of logistical and infrastructural power. Focusing on threechain gang narratives, John L. Spivak's Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang (1932), Elliot Burns's I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain (1932...

... to modernity (the Eiffel Tower, the Ferris Wheel, and Tatlin's unbuilt Monument to the Third International), the article traces the path of modernity as a road leading to political de-intensification. These various monumental efforts of modernism stand in sharp contrast to the political modernism of the Mao...

... Let Me Go (2005), and The Road (2006), Elliott explores the contemporary fixation on the subject’s interest in life, a trend that she locates across a range of prominent subgenres, from survival tales to literary sci-fi. The poetics of what is commonly called the self-preservation instinct has become...

... through the middle of Bahla, the pre-Islamic walled town in the “Interior Region” (Dakhiliya) of the Sultanate of Oman where I conducted fieldwork in 1996 and 1997 and vis- ited again in 2002. Coming from the direction of Nizwa, the capital of the Dakhiliya region, the road reaches the town, first...

... Valley to the Indian plains — currently the only available road route for the sanctioned movement of goods and people between the valley and India. The block- ade was attributed to agitators in the plains town of Jammu, which, like the valley, is part of the Indian state (federal unit) of Jammu...

... infrastructure modernity racial capitalism worlds In early February 2020, as we were writing this introduction, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) violently raided the Unist'ot'en Camp in unceded Wet'suwet'en territory, where Indigenous people had for a decade been blocking roads and bridges...

... a week and had not witnessed a single location not fully controlled by the Israeli occupation. Even in areas that the Oslo Peace Accords had designated as under full Palestinian civilian and military control (so-­called Area A), we saw settler outposts perched on every hilltop, bypass roads...

... to focus agenda. Maybe all our energy in the U.S., point our guns in one direction. Debating over down the road whether or not we can vote in Mexico is a detour to real inclusion here.” The response, of course, is, “Who are you...

... Roads, past the dark houses of Nod on the hill; or headed east through the big, fat, yawning six-laner stew of Venice Boulevard; or surfed the sleep- less ruckus of Crenshaw, 6 P.M. Sunday, as the police put up their barri- cades to keep out the joyriders readying...

... their multiplication by dealing 76 Seremetakis · Death Drives in the City exclusively with their visual aspect. All seem to agree that these little memorials, old and new, multiply imperceptibly.2 Roundabout roads or linear streets and highways...

... a mother waiting at a checkpoint in Jericho as she cuddled her infant to her chest. Turning away from the political illusions fostered by George W. Bush’s ill-­fated “road map for peace,” cArı¯qa¯t writes, “at a time when the Road Map [kharı¯t.eh al-sala...

... Anand, Johnathan Bach, Julia Elyachar, and Daniel Mains” on Cultural Anthropology ’s website. While anthropologists have long churned out studies of particular electric networks, roads, or water supply systems, Larkin notes that “in the past decade new intellectual directions in the discipline have...

... but the embodiment of the process of remembering itself, the ruined place itself remembers and grows lonely. — Kathleen Stewart, A Space on the Side of the Road The Manila Film Center is located on the southwest end of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), a seaside complex built on sixty...

... a Zionist. The red sign marking the Franco-Spanish border is clearly visible from Karavan’s monument. Only three kilometers away, the border post stands near the top of a hill across the bay and is reached via a road that winds its way up from the town. When Benjamin crossed that border...

... and military personnel were still patrolling. The metro station was empty. The shrine on the main road near Chand Bagh had become an installation of division. Two skeletons of motorbikes lay outside the shrine. Violence had led to a strange graying of this part of the city. It looked like a scene...

... to Palestine and Back  John Collins 66 Flaws in the Flow: Roads and Their Modernity in Pakistan  Naveeda Khan 87 Contributors John Collins is associate professor of global studies at St. Lawrence Uni- versity. He...

.... . . . That whole road will run with milk and beer. . . . ” 128 Pandian ∙ Imagination: Cinematic, Anthropological Santhosh takes his initials from his father, a Chennai politician who vanished mysteriously a decade ago. His father helped pioneer the use of massive wooden “cut-outs...

... Garment Workers in Sri Lanka Sandya Hewamanne Intersection of the Modern and Dangerous The Colombo-Negombo highway runs past the entrance to the Japan – Sri Lanka Friendship Road, which leads to both the country’s only interna- tional airport and the Katunayake Free Trade Zone (FTZ...

... of Nicoletta straight roads, and their personal life is conditioned by their careers. This installation is made up of the word EXIT placed at sky level on the win- dows at the ninety-first floors of the World Trade Center towers, the busi- ness center in New York City. A video of the flight of an abstract...