...Hershini Bhana Young Abstract This essay develops the idea of salvage as a material practice around ships’ cargo and as an archival epistemology. Using a legal court case concerning 43 million dollars worth of silver bars salvaged from the wreck of the SS Tilawa , a website constructed by the son...

..., to use Roderick A. Ferguson’s coinage, and places Sapphire's 1996 novel Push in conversation with Jesmyn Ward's 2011 novel Salvage the Bones . Both novels depict young Black mothers grappling with the disabling context of public infrastructural abandonment, in which the basic support systems...

.... Indeed, everything can be salvaged, even the pseudo-socialism estab- lished here and there in Europe by Stalin, provided that initiative be given over to the peoples that have until now only been subject to it; provided that power descends from on high and becomes rooted in the people (and I...

... as a life-preserving practice, and as a form of life preservation that cannot sustain a future. Both now and throughout its century-long wartime history, Walter Reed has been a place doubly governed by American fantasies of the good life. As a site for the remaking of lives as well as the salvaging...

... on this misunderstanding in his attempt to salvage jouissance for the acting out of impossible queerness: But to the extent that jouissance as a tear in the social fabric of symbolic real- ity as we know it unravels the solidity of every object, including the object as which the subject necessarily...

... this character into a symbol of Chinese resistance, placing him at the center of the film’s promotional posters, Lu Chuan could not finally salvage a believable narrative logic for this failed resister, which also sug- gests that he cannot salvage his humanity. Thus, the Chinese resister has no choice...

... employment. So maybe.” I pressed her about what she remembered about the Marcos dictatorship and how it affected her. It was the first time she'd ever told me about her memories of the disappearances, the “salvaging” of accused activists, ordered by the Marcoses. “We were taught not to talk about it,” she...

... that colonialism was also the source from which some hope might be salvaged. But it was true as The coming of industries may have cheated Africans, but it brought them in contact with labor organization and, in a general sense, “the most pro- well that gressive...

... available to women.43 Why insurance? What is it about insurance, about its relationship to credit, about its place in neoliberal fiscal orderings that makes it seem like a vehicle that will not just salvage past and future loss but offer...

... without the moral implications of her work. Remaining tied to her body was specifi c to the work she performed, and this bodilyness led to abjection and subservience not found in any other labor form. Involvement in collective bargaining, therefore, could not empower her at work or salvage...

... : University of Chicago Press . Hartley Daniel 2015 . “ Against the Anthropocene .” Salvage 1 : 107 – 17 . Hooton Christopher . 2015 . “ Anthropocene: Earth Is Already in a New Epoch, Has Been since July 16, 1945, Scientists Claim .” Independent , 15 January...

... on sociality itself. 34 The ethnographic worlds we explore here are structured by such efforts to clean up the mess of liberal governance, culling forms of life (and death) that are perceived as threatening or that are not legible as worthy. In these worlds, such forms of life may be salvaged, but they may...

... logics of dis/ability and dependency. She nominates the figure of the welfare queen to propose “crip-of-color critique,” reading two works of contemporary “minority literary form”—Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones and Sapphire's Push —for how they theorize “racialized regimes of disablement.” Thinking...

... Laborieux, Chamoiseau’s novel draws on the Hispanic-American testimonio genre that characterizes eth- nographically infl uenced literary works such as Miguel Barnet’s infl u- ential Biografi a de un cimarron.12 Written against the grain of a salvage ethnography that typically represented non-European...

... by this reading are likely to argue that if there is anything worth salvaging intellectually in Marxism, it must be the antitotalitarian impulse of Marxism itself rather than its communalism. The so-­called humanist phase of Marx’s...

... that reproduced that very scene at Harvard—and the remainder of those wasted lives—was what Lorde was after: some piece of sentience unextracted, unscavenged by a capitalist mode of production bent on salvaging value from all of its others. That piece, that sliver of regard for the life not exhausted in the “life...

... time, the time of history from cyclical eternal time. Subcontinental history is narrated through an angular vision of Christian/utilitarian Protestant colonialism, a vision aligned through a desire to offer redemption—a golden time (to be salvaged through utilitarian...

..., offers the possibility in the midst of a crisis in socialism of rethinking socialism in new, more creative ways.”43 What I have begun to think about as screen postsocialism in this essay aims to salvage some...

... of this “basketry car” that comes alive before the viewer's eyes. 11 Figure 1. annie ross, Forest One . Figure 1. annie ross, Forest One. ross's earlier self-published book, Happy Birthday Super Cheaper (2009), similarly centers on practices of salvage and repair in its curation of discarded...

... studies, I argue that reparation in object relations does not just outline a theory regarding the preservation and salvaging of love between subjects of violence; equally so, it delineates a process by which violence and hate are preserved...